John Appleseed 11/21/13 English Prd. 3 SHAMPOO Shampoo- simile‚ hyperbole‚ alliteration‚ metaphor‚ personification‚ onomatopoeia‚ oxymoron Time out By Jana Ghossein Help how much my heart hurts My mouth is as dry as a desert My throat is sore My voice is a goner My heart is beating as fast as a tiger My hand is a rattling snake My face is a tomato Bye bye‚ boring life I cannot take it no more I lay my head Upon my knee Now blow the whistle referee The poem‚
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freeze like ice” (Abrahams and Harpham 53). These first two lines refer to a figure of speech known as oxymoron‚ because they describe the opposing passions that are being experienced by a courtly sufferer from the disease of love. This is a description how the contrarious passion in the lover starts and ends in “I love another‚ and thus hate myself” (Wyatt 9). The poet used a series of oxymoron: love and hate; sorrow and pain; death and life; delight and strife. This poem has presented a man’s despair
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use of oxymorons. In Cousin Kate the narrator said she was ’lured ’ to the Lords home “To lead a shameless shameful life”. This oxymoron has a sexual meaning behind it. The words ‘shameless’ and ‘shameful’ conflict making this an oxymoron. This could mean that it was shameless for her enjoyment of the sexual act and she had no shame with the Lord before they had sex‚ but it was in fact in real life shameful after she had sex‚ as she had not married the Lord. Havisham also used an oxymoron relating
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sound which in fact highlights the severity of her sorrow. This will lead the reader to have sympathy and pity toward Ms Havisham. Moreover‚ Havisham has assorted emotions towards her ex-fiancé‚ which she vividly expresses in an oxymoron; “Beloved sweetheart bastard”. Oxymoron is used to contrast two opposite things to reinforce them so they have a peculiar connection. This is effective because Lastly‚ the reader can see that Havisham’s feeling are over-flowing and cannot be contained any longer‚ in
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Everyone will die eventually‚ but different people has different attitudes towards death. In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”‚ Dylan Thomas tells people that when we face death‚ we should not just give up and accept death quietly and peacefully‚ we should fight for more life and never give in to death. The speaker in this poem is Dylan Thomas himself‚ the sentence “Curse‚ bless‚ me now with your fierce tears‚ I pray” in the quatrain
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The brain is a very important part of our body.It is the reason we are as inteligent as we are now.The Brain is basically our main body part.It controls our whole body and sends responses so we can move.Sabastian Seung is making a map to show the brain and Noe argues that the connectome is useless because its not advancing brain research and its just a useless map.Alva Noe convinces us that the brain map wont be useful by providing evidence and using different authors crafts to provide a stronger
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not a static matter. Richard Rodriguez struggles with his cultural identity between California and Mexico. His conflicting feelings are conveyed within the introduction of his written work‚ Days of Obligation. Through juxtaposition‚ paradox‚ and oxymoron‚ Rodriguez compares the cultures‚ and eventually comes to the conclusion that both represent him equally. To demonstrate how California and Mexico’s cultures compare‚ Rodriguez uses juxtaposition. He labels California as a comedy‚ and Mexico with
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destructive by human pride. Constructive criticism is an oxymoron‚ and cannot exist. All criticism is inherently destructive. When criticizing‚ most people will portray the recipient of the criticism as "be[ing] impractical"(38) or "asking "fool questions""(43) . Whereas‚ anything constructive is associated with growth‚ which requires a person to be open‚ not in a defensive state of mind. When put together‚ these two ideas constitute an oxymoron. Nature will not allow two concepts that contradict each
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powerlessness. The poem‚ “The Domesticity of Giraffes” portrays the agony of a giraffe confined in captivity. The concepts of power and powerlessness are evidently portrayed through the uses of several techniques such as metaphors‚ allegory‚ contrast and oxymoron. It is through these techniques that the concepts of power and powerlessness are conveyed to readers. The poet’s use of metaphor assists in conveying the idea of individual and social powerlessness within the poem. “Bruised-appled eyed”. This metaphor
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Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare creates humor through three diverse devices: oxymoron’s‚ malapropisms and mistaken identities. All result in a farcical mix of comic situations. Wordplay‚ such as the use of oxymorons‚ is an abundant source of humor in Shakespeare. The word oxymoron comes from the Greek meaning "pointedly foolish." Pointedly foolish certainly applies to the mechanicals‚ whose ignorance provides the root of all their comedy in the play. For example‚ Quince refers to the play
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