FIGURES OF SPEECH List of Figure of Speech and Examples Alliteration This is a very common figure of speech that involves using words that begin with the same sound. For instance, “Sally sells sea shells by the seashore” is alliteration – and try saying it fast to see how difficult it is! It is often used in advertising slogans to create something catchy that more people will remember. Assonance Remember the phrase “I Like Ike”? It was a very common phase for those who supported Dwight
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Why do people in China eat rats, but in the United States they poison them? Thumbs up in most countries signify satisfaction or approval, but in West Africa and South America, it is an offence. In Russia, giving someone even numbers of flowers as a gift is seen as inviting death. A dozen roses or six beautiful tulips are only given at funerals. As long as we could imagine, clear borders have always been marked between countries, states, cities and villages. However, the spread of culture has never
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The Monkey King and Jin are seen as Others to the dominant culture around them and the psychological oppressions that they face are due to the world's perceptions of them, while Danny's psychological oppressions form from hearing the judgments made by the dominant culture towards Chin-Kee. Due to the outward appearance of the Monkey King and Jin, the communities around them believe them to be an Other; this is internalized and turned into psychological oppression. The first section of the story
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The Need for Happiness Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh once wrote, “Happiness does not come through the consumption of things.” He persists that happiness only comes when one is free from materialistic desire.. The monk also suggests suffering is crucial to perceive true happiness. Brave New World embodies the same concept, does true happiness exist without suffering? Aldous Huxley purposed soma to be the object that eliminates suffering and, consequently, the characters think they are happy
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into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full sized adult” (4). With the help of technology, identity and the purpose of nature have been obliterated. By destroying the idea of the individual, the only thing left is to meet the fairly simple needs of the people. As a result, this makes the individual dependent on the state to not only provide for them, but to have complete control over all of society. Including the individual's knowledge of the natural world, the impression of god
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One of the primary themes in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World is the idea of social stratification and the caste system. Within this universe, people are engineered at birth to fit into a certain caste in order to maintain stability. At first it may seem that the upper castes hold the power over the lower castes. However, because the lower castes enjoy their position in society, this cannot be the case. Instead, Huxley makes the argument that although the lower castes seem happy with
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a. The brave new world that Aldous Huxley creates overtly deviates from today’s world. However, disturbing correlations between our world and his do exist. The idea of synthesizing all human life in a lab represents a more apparent distinction of Huxley’s world. His society even denounces natural birth as something almost unnatural. Huxley illustrates his society's disgust with natural birth when Lenina, a main character and denizen of the new world, visits a Native American Reservation. The warden
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There are several characteristics needed to make a total institution. Three of the ones present in Jonestown were as follows: isolation, comprehensive re-socialization, and exercise of complete control over the members. For the most part, the People’s Temple was fairly insular. While they did have contact with people outside of the Temple, it was limited and they were very secretive. When looking at the idea of comprehensive re-socialization, just like at how the lives of the members changed.
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The novel, “A Long Way Gone”, is filled with cultural stories and myths. The tale of the “Wild Pigs” and the “Bra Spider” are told in this novel. The tale of the “Wild Pigs” is about how a man could transform into a pig. He would lead wild pigs into a clear opening, where they could not escape. He would eat a plant, and transform into a human again, killing the wild pigs afterwards. The other pigs soon learned about what this man was doing and destroyed all of the plants. When the man lead them into
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#1 Aristocrats and lawyers are deceiving the people. The document states " In order to deceive them, they incessantly declare that none can discover any defect in the system but bankrupts who wish no government, and officers of the present government who fear to lose a part of their power." The people are checked and brainwashed so that they are in belief that their government is perfect, but really only the people that are manipulating know the truth. Who are the government and bankrupts who want
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