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    they are overused because all of the following texts can be found analysed in study guides. If you use a pre-prepared analysis for your related texts realise you will be competing with the thousands of other students who used the exact same text and analysis. Edward Scissorhands My Big Fat Greek Wedding Into the Wild Looking for Alibrandi Shrek The Arrival Mean Girls The Rabbits The Catcher in the Rye

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    Alliteration 1. Is derived from Latin’s “Latira”. It means “letters of alphabet”. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words‚ having the same first consonant sound‚ occur close together in a series. 2. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse. Around the rock the ragged rascal ran. But a better butter makes a batter better. A big bully beats a baby boy. Park Place. Mary marveled at the magnificent monument. Anadiplosis The term anadiplosis

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    poetic devices in it. The poem is written by a guy named Alfred Noyes. The poem is about a highwayman that is in love with a beautiful girl‚ Bess. He leaves the home to steal gold. When he is gone‚ the Redcoats come into the home and tie up Bess. She decides she would kill herself before she have to see her lover die. After she kills herself‚ the highwayman gets killed by the Redcoats.This poem is filled with poetic devices‚ which makes this poem a masterpiece. One of the major poetic devices used

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    I am going to show that the whole piece is aimed at entertaining the reader. Writers use different stylistic devices to create humorous effect. There are many comic effects used in this extract Dominant prose systems in this story are narrative and interior monologue‚ which overlap and go together t(he story is told by the 2 people simultaneously) The author uses this strategy not only to reveal character’s personality‚ but also to break the monotony‚ to create humorous effect. General tone of

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    One of the things that makes Shakespeare’s writing so famous is all of the literary devices he adds in. One of the many devices found is found Act 2 scene 2. At this point in the play‚ Macbeth has just killed King Duncan and is talking to his wife‚ Lady Macbeth about it. Macbeth is very paranoid and freaking out because he suddenly hears a strange knocking‚ but his hands are still covered in blood. This is where a hyperbole comes in and Macbeth says “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

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    ‘beside’‚ as well as by the vocabulary associated with the ways of transport: ‘motor road’ and ‘railroad’. Also the writer has used semantic deviation ─ the use of the adverb ‘hastily’ and the verb ‘runs’ indicates movement. It is used here as personification to show the reader that the road is trying to get away from something. Next‚ is the phrase ‘shrink away’‚ which is used to indicate how humans or animals hide away from someone or something they fear. Although‚ this passage is not verse‚ there

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    a word-group or a sentence which exaggerate the real degree of a quantity of the thing spoken about. It is a distortion of reality for the purpose of visualization or strengthening the emotional effect. It is also an important expressive literary device‚ often employed for humoristic purpose: One after another those people lay down on the grass to laugh- and two of them died. Гипербола - вид тропа: чрезмерное преувеличение чувств‚ значения‚ размера‚ красоты и т.п. описываемого объекта. Understatement-

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    he has committed treason against his country. He hopes that his country‚ his other dearest love‚ will pardon him because he loves both his country and his love interest. | LITERARY DEVICES 1. PERSONIFICATION * Lines 4‚ 6-7: The love interest’s eyes constantly accuses and convicts the persona. This device highlights the extent to which the persona has hurt this person. * Lines 18-20: The persona hopes that his country‚ his other dearest love‚ will forgive him for the treasonous act of

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    Literary Devices – Poetry Allusion: An event or fact from an external context assumed to be known by the reader (e.g. historical‚ biblical‚ etc.). An allusion can increase one’s understanding of the poem in question by drawing parallels with other subjects. Anthropomorphism: The showing or treating of animals‚ gods and objects as if they are human in appearance‚ character or behaviour. Apostrophe: Something that addresses an object‚ abstract idea‚ or person who is dead as though it could

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    The Raven Deep‚ dark‚ doomy is what this poem is‚ written by Edgar Allen Poe. This poem I believe is all imaginary which I will prove by evidence from the poem itself. This poem which was written in the 1800s is the darkest poem I have read yet. It has good imagery‚ mood‚ tone‚ language‚ and setting. This eighteen-stanza poem talks about a man who is encountered by a raven in the middle of the night. I’m going to show you why I believe this poem is imaginary. In the beginning of the poem

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