Davis‚ John Ryan AP English Lit/block 4 02-09-14 Poisonwood Bible Project Character 2.) Choose one character‚ and begin this activity by making a list of objects and images associated with the character. Using Sandra Cisneros’s “Abuelito Who” (Below) as the model‚ write a 23-line poem that conveys the characters most essential traits. Abuelito Who Sandra Cisneros Abuelito who throws coins like rain is a doorknob tied to a sour stick and asks who loves him is tired shut the door who is dough
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In Native Son‚ Wright utilizes various forms of figurative language in order to immerse readers into the plot of the story. Through his descriptive words and the images he creates‚ Wright allows readers to fully experience his settings and the dramatic events through Bigger’s senses and observations. The readers are constantly pulled into the action of the plot with Wright’s imagery‚ and are carried along with Bigger as he prepares his next moves. In the novel‚ Wright commonly uses similes. He
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the idea that nature makes the speaker feels safe and the role of memory and imagination as something pure. In the poem “Ozymandias” by Pershy Bissy Shelley‚ The hand that mock ’d them and the heart that fed in line 8‚ it is an instance of Synecdoche and Alliteration. The hand that mock ’d them makes reference to the sculptor who mocked the Pharaon´s passions by chiseling into the stone. Concerning the use of alliteration‚ the poet uses it as to create an emphasis. In the poem “Darkness“
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concerns on obsession with money and the new consumer culture was one reason as to why he wrote this novel. He begins by establishing this theme through Daisy and Tom. Daisy’s voice often has references to wealth: “Her voice is full of money”. The synecdoche here represents Daisy herself as an object of desirability and high status. Daisy represents perfection to Gatsby because she has the wealth‚ class‚ charm and sophistication that Gatsby has wanted all of his life. The life that they lead seems to
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NOT MARBLE NOT THE GUILDED MONUMENTS (SONNET 55) BY: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THEME Shakespeare believed that love is eternal and everlasting. It cannot be destroyed or withered away‚ like man-made monuments which are all doomed to destruction with the passage of time. The sonnet opposes the power of verse to death and the ravages of time‚ promising immortality to his friend by making him the subject of his poem. Q AND A Q1. Why do you think the rich and powerful……(see text Q no. 1)
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definition of lavender. Claudia Valentine: Her negative tone towards Sydney shows throughout the book. Quote | Technique | Äs I got out of bed I realised I wasn’t the only one in it. There was a good looking blonde in there as well" p.1 | Synecdoche (a figure of speech in which the word for part of something is used to mean the whole). This quote implies masculinity ‚ stereotype of "good looking blonde" ‚ shows Claudia’s male attributes in the way she talks and presents herself. | I rephrased
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I talked to her in English‚ she answered back in Chinese” (Tan 33-34). The difference of languages is a synecdoche of the difference of the culture as a whole‚ with the daughter being strongly connected to the American world and the mother being strongly connected to the traditional Chinese world. Because of this barrier‚ neither side can completely be adapted
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Upon scansion of “Beyond the Locked Door‚” one notices the presence of four stanzas‚ with the first three being quatrains and the last stanza being a couplet. It is written in iambic pentameter. As the poem is fourteen lines long and has such a metrical scheme‚ one can assume that the poem is a sonnet. The rhyme scheme is ABABCDCDEFEFGG‚ which suggests that the sonnet is English. As for punctuation‚ the second line in each of the first three stanzas end with an exclamation mark and are in quotation
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1. Abstract Language: Language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things‚ people‚ or places. 2. Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds‚ such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." 3. Allusion: A reference contained in a work 4. Ambiguity: an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. 5. Analogy: a literary device employed to serve as a basis for comparison. It is assumed that what applies to the parallel situation
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Sexism is defined as the overarching system of advantages bestowed upon men. As a prejudice and discriminatory ideology based on gender‚ founded on a patriarchal structure of male dominance promoted through individual‚ institutional‚ social‚ and cultural systems. As an umbrella unfairly placed above the heads of men in the presence of a monsoon‚ leaving the women cold‚ wet‚ and yearning for equality. The insidious ideology that fuels sexism in culture not only perpetuates misogynistic dogmatism‚
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