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    How effective is this feature article as a protest text? The feature article “Sexed up tween advertising shows fashion needs to grow up”‚ by Emma Rush and Caroline Norma‚ is an extremely effective protest text against the sexual exploitation of young girls in the fashion industry. Its textual form allows it to strategically target influential audiences and the article itself is written so that the composer’s disapproval of sexed-up‚ young models is clearly seen. As a protest text‚ it also manages

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    Hamlet: Syntax and Tone

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    skillful syntax to reveal conflict‚ Hamlet attacks his mother with witty statements‚ belittles her with rhetorical questions (“what’s the matter now?”)‚ wishes he were not her son with exclamation (line 15)‚ and finishes with a command to sit that he may “set us a glass where you may see the inmost part of you.” In summary‚ the syntax utilizes parallelism‚ repetition‚ sarcastic and rhetorical questions‚ exclamations‚ and commands in order to highlight the tone of rising emotion and

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    monologue makes it engaging with the reader. Additionally‚ Browning uses rhetorical questions as part of form to help tell the story. For example‚ ’Who’d stoop to blame..’ is a clear example of the Duke trying to persuade his audience. The effect is that it reveals more about the Duke’s character as the rhetorical question reinforces the impression that the Duke is haughty and self-important. To evaluate‚ Browning uses rhetorical questions effectively‚ revealing more about his character. Browning uses a

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    Poetry Comparison

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    Dawe’s ‘Elegy for Drowned Children’ both present ideas on how individuals lament for the passed‚ through the major theme of death. Beach Burial follows the recurring events of the battle of El Alamein in WW2‚ whilst The Elegy for Drowned Children questions the fate of those unfortunate souls who have drowned. Although both poems incorporate drownin‚ they contrast in their interpretation of death and the ‘afterlife’. This idea of death is explored through the use of setting‚ language techniques and

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    Alcohol Fuelled Violence

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    The ongoing growth of alcohol fuelled violence and causalities has sparked interest in the media recently‚ particularly after the death of ‘one punch’ victim Daniel Christie. Over many years there have been deaths as a result of alcohol fuelled violence but due to the increasingly rapid pace of fatalities it has dominated today’s media. Found to be more common in boys the Australia wide epidemic‚ including the brutal and often fatal “king hit”‚ has now been branded as ‘cowardly’ as it is more suiting

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    Figures of Speech

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    art‚ either directly or by implication. 1) She was breathtakingly beautiful‚ but he knew that she was forbidden fruit. 2) She transformed her backyard to look like the Garden of Eden. 3) His wife was his Achilles’ heel. F. Antonomasia - A rhetorical term for the substitution of a title‚ epithet‚ or descriptive phrase for a proper name (or of a personal name for a common name)

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    Steve Jobs Speech

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    Submission #1 Topic #5 As former CEO of a successful computer based company called Apple‚ Steve Jobs gives an inspirational speech‚ urging the graduating class of Stanford University to trust their own instincts and have the courage to persevere and pursue their own personal goals despite others opinions and the trails and tribulations that may come with each decision. Steve Jobs was born on 1955 and at the age of 13‚ Jobs met 18-year-old Stephen Wozniak‚ who shared his love for electronics and

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    Dawe uses language forms and features to show war in an unfavourable light. Weapons Training is known as a anti-war poem. He uses dramatic monologue by an angry‚ racist drill seargent who expresses Bruce Dawes views on war through the use of rhetorical questions‚ structure‚ onomatopoeia‚ and racist and sexual language. Firstly‚ in Weapons Training it is obvious onomatopoeia is used to show exaggeration and to set the mood for the reader. Some examples of onomatopoeia is ‘those eyeballs click and the

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    it is undefined. Agard compares the word half-caste to Tchaikovsky’s piano‚ Picasso’s canvas and English weather. Firstly‚ John Agard uses rhetorical questions throughout the poem; ‘what yu mean?’ this shows that nobody knows what Half-Caste means it is down to the reader’s own opinion. This is repeated a lot throughout the poem. Rhetorical questions were very effective in this poem as it made the reader think imagine what the phrase half-caste means. Another technique that Agard uses is repetition;

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    Konovalova Zilya gr. 293 “Blood‚ Toil‚ Tears‚ and Sweat” Winston Churchill’s speech analysis The famous speech from Churchill is chosen as the subject of the study. Public speech‚ as important social-cultural phenomena‚ is an effective way to express feelings and convey ideas. In order to be attractive and persuasive‚ a successful speech should be formal and vivid at the same time. These requirements make a public speech have its own unique style. Public speeches are formal and

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