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    that they received‚ because it represents their love for one another. “As it said‚ of all who give and receive gifts‚ such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.” One dollar and eighty-seven cents nominative sentence. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies anadiplosis saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and polysyndeton the butcher enumeration

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    (5) 4. What is the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing? (5) 5. How do we compare and contrast? (5) 6. What is the purpose of comparing and contrasting? (5) 7. What is the purpose of a topic sentence? (10) 8. How do we write a strong paragraph that supports the topic sentence? (5) Unit 2 1. Who are the protagonist and antagonist of your novel? (5) 2. What is the conflict facing the protagonist? Is it internal / external? Diagnose it as man vs ___. (10) 3. How did your protagonist

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    horses regularly or even owned one‚ this shows the personality of the writer and her positive view on the nature and her surroundings. Also the metaphor‚ “the ashes glittering spears with their upright stems” this extra information in a long complex sentence brings life and personality to the trees‚ the writer obviously sees the nature of her landscape more alive and closer to her than her friends‚ as she

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    (especially metaphors and similes)‚ vivid imagery‚ and unusual sentence structure Ondaatje utilized elaborate the sentences making the novel Running in the Family sounds more of a poem than a novel. For instance‚ the description of Hetti Corea’s voice is written as a poem using simile and imagery: "Your voice sounds like a scorpion being pushed/ through a glass tube/ like someone has just trod on a peacock/like wind howling in a coconut..."(76) The variety forms of sentence structure that varies from

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    In the book “Their Eyes Were Watching God” Zora Neale Hurston uses many literary terms in an attempt to give the reader a better understanding of Janie’s perspective on her life. She uses terms such as metaphors‚ similes‚ hyperboles‚ and many other assorted terms to better convey certain things in the novel. A metaphor is used to compare things‚ or as a saying. Zora Neale Hurston uses a metaphor such as “no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you – and pinched it into

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    Reviewer: T. O. Dytyna LVIV 2012 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................3 Chapter1. EMOTIVE PROSE AS A SPECIFIC GENRE OF ARTISTIC LITERATURE AND EPITHET‚ SIMILE AND METAPHOR AS MEANS OF CREATIVE REPRESENTATION OF IDEAS IN A LITERARY WORK..............................................6 1.1. Emotive prose as a form of artistic literature and peculiarities of its translation...........................

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    Critique: Passage from The Stranger by Albert Camus: At the same instant the sweat in my eyebrows dripped down over my eyelids all at once and covered them with a warm‚ thick film. My eyes were blinded behind the curtain of tears and salt. All I could feel were the cymbals of sunlight crashing on my forehead and‚ indistinctly‚ the dazzling spear flying up from the knife in front of me. The scorching blade slashed at my eyelashes and stabbed at my stinging eyes. That’s when everything began to reel

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    single greatest motivating force in her/his life? In other words‚ consider the story the character tells‚ and then consider what is so important about this story that the character chose to tell it from the grave. Explore this in at least two sentences. Albert Schirding expresses shame of his failure contrary to his children’s success. He believes that his own success is more important than that of his children’s. He compares his failure which is losing in a County Superintendent of School

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    Setting Idea/s - Conveys the impression that Darwin is a place where people who don’t fit in come together | Topic sentence/s – the distinctively visual setting in Maestro assists in representing/capturing the identity of Darwin of the 1960’s. | Evidence | Techniques | Effect | After a difficult days work at the hospital not long after arriving in Darwin‚ Paul’s father remarks rather irately that “All the drifters”‚ the misfits”‚ “All the scum in the country has somehow risen to this

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    in black’. One example of Susan Hill creating unease is in the quotation‚ “...what figures I could make out‚ fumbling their way through the murk‚ were like ghost figures‚ their mouths and lower faces muffled in scarves and veils...”‚ which uses a simile and connotations. Ghosts are usually associated with negative feelings and fright‚ therefore these connotations could give the feeling of unease‚ making the reader concerned about the figures. Another example of unease is shown in‚ “It was a yellow

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