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    something within her was crying‚ rooms that throbbed‚ dying orchids)‚ hyperbole (a hundred pairs‚ half a dozen dates‚ half a dozen men). There was found a case of simile (fresh faces like rose petals) . The author used such figures of contrast as oxymoron (cheerful snobbery‚ sweet fever)‚ antithesis (there was a certain struggle and a certain relief). The play on the polysemantic words are represented by figure of ambiguity – zeugma ( there was a wholesome bulkiness about his person and his position)

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    "Dulce et Decorum Est" Explication Wilfred Owen’s "Dulce et Decorum Est" is a description of a gas attack suffered by a group of soldiers in World War One. By using shifting rhythms‚ dramatic description‚ and imagery‚ the speaker tries to convince readers that the horror of war outweighs the patriotic duty to war. In the first stanza the speaker describes the calm before the gas attack. The speaker uses alliteration‚ "bent beggars‚" and onomatopoeia "cough" to create a sense of despair

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    Collaborating in a Competitive World (8th ed.). New York‚ NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Baue‚ B. (2009). The Latest Corporate Social Responsibility News: Walmart and Sustainability: Oxymoron or Salvation – or Both? Retrieved from http://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/27370-The-Latest-Corporate-Social-Responsibility-News-Walmart-and-Sustainability-Oxymoron-or-Salvation-or-Both- Ferdinand‚ A. (2007). Wal-Mart Determined to Lead int COrporate Social Responsibility. Retrieved from http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/pressreleases/blackwell07

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    Analysis by N. Mohsin Autobiography‚ by Louis MacNeice In my childhood trees were green And there was plenty to be seen. Come back early or never come. My father made the walls resound‚ He wore his collar the wrong way round. Come back early or never come. My mother wore a yellow dress; Gentle‚ gently‚ gentleness. Come back early or never come. When I was five the black dreams came; Nothing after was quite the same. Come back early or never come. The dark was talking

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    Stylistic semasiology

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    STYLISTIC SEMASIOLOGY OF THE ENGUSH LANGUAGE (Методичні вказівки до семінарських та практичних занять зі стилістики англійської мови для студентів IV курсу. (Видання 2) . Уклад. Воробйова О.П.‚ Бойцан Л.Ф.‚ Ганецька Л.В. та інш. - К.: Вид. центр КНЛУ‚ 2001. - С. 28-33.) 1. Semasiology is a branch of linguistics which studies semantics or meaning of linguistic units belonging to different language levels. Lexical semasiology analyses the meaning of words and word combinations‚ relations between

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    A pack of cigarettes a day will keep the doctor away; It provides that lower Hollywood boulevard smile‚ the one that every crack addict would be proud of-- that gorgeous yellow film over those rusty teeth that causes people to glance in the other direction. Those lucky few who enjoy menthol cigarettes will love their new crystallized lunges; making ordinary breathing a chore. Smoking gives people that wonderful‚ dragon breath that all the ladies adore. And just when it seemed like the benefits were

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    materialistic society. Not disposed or predisposed to sophistication of today’s standard‚ but well refined in the most prominent attribute of human entity. Regarded as sympathetic and callous at the same time‚ as if the two words are not contradictory‚ but oxymoron not when carefully applied to circumstances where it fits. It is through right judgment that sympathy and callousness reconcile. Believes in Christian faith‚ God loving and passionately active in church activities‚ having been raised from conventional

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    secrets of all the characters. Example #1: “The story of an hour” by Kate Chopin. Example #2: “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy. Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like what they mean. Example #1: Buzz‚ buzz‚ buzz Example #2: Hiss‚ hiss‚ hiss Oxymoron: The pairing together of opposite words. Example #1: Pretty ugly Example #2: Cold fire

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    Wild Geese Poem Analysis

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    Wild Geese This poem [Wild Geese] is an unusual poem. Instead of following the usual guidelines of a poem (ABABAB‚ AABBAA‚ Haiku‚ etc.) it deviates‚ to the point at which it loses the luster of a song and gains that of a statement. And even though such statement has no rhythm‚ nor explainable format‚ our brains are tricked into reading it with a softer voice‚ similar to the voice one spares for a child’s nursery rhymes. Regardless of how it is presented‚ Wild Geese is a motivational poem‚ and that

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    past. We can see the metaphors in this extract (for ex. cold-hearted)‚ personalization (“the earth gave forth a farming warmth”‚”to roll their bodies on her”‚ “put their lips to her breast”. There are also epithets (golden buds; sweet savour)‚ oxymoron (painful sweetness)‚ exclamations (in the end of the extract). To sum up‚ I think it’s a beautiful extract that is full of stylistic devices‚ with lyrical description of spring nature and sentimental

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