First and last name Schoenecker CCR 094 22 September 2014 Figurative Language Examples Your interpretations should include the quote, the author, page number, and explanation of how you interpreted the figurative language. You may type your answers directly into this document. This assignment will be typed and handed in as a hard copy and submitted to the D2L Dropbox. NOTE: To save paper, please delete the examples below before you print out your assignment. Example entry:
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Can you give us a room with a view?" They arranged themselves at the window and counted the steps of the sun, and they both took root in the carpet where the topaz tortoises run. William Blake (1757-1827) Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally. Hyperboles are exaggerations to create emphasis or effect. Examples Examples of hyperbole include: • The
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disconnected from nature that even looking outside a car window during a drive, would be quite bizarre. By utilizing testimonies that represent either the average technology-loving American or the modern transcendentalist, nostalgic imagery, and rhetorical questions he develops a well thought out argument about the severance between people and nature. After Louv learns about the advance science has reached, where altering the very color of a butterflies wings is now a luxury, that the science of
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Compare the attitudes presented in Flag and Right Word In The Right Word the poet is trying to express her emotions without having to put them into words on paper, her desire for this is clear in the short form of the poem. She additionally uses are very expressive of the struggle to find the right way to describe what she can see such as the contrast between "terrorist", which suggests a violent rebel, compared to "freedom fighter", suggesting a strong willed moral protestor. Similarly as she tries
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Will Raspberry and her mother ever have a better? Raspberry mother tries to keep the neighborhood quiet and clean. Seems like she can’t with her lousy no good teenager neighbors, one of the neighbors shiketa almost killed her mother by hitting her in the head with a metal pipe. Raspberry is having trouble with a lot of stuff going on in her life like almost losing her best friend Zora over money she took . Then her drug addicted dad comes back in her life when she doesn't want him to. She still
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visiting him for the first and last time since he left, and how difficult it was to confront his abandonment. Through strong diction and tone, rhetorical devices, and the conflict shown, Bragg displays the theme of being trapped between forgiving and hating his father. Before Bragg allows the reader to fully
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As stated in Bizter The Rhetorical Situation essay the Audience “consists only of those persons who are cap- able of being influenced by discourse and of being mediators of change.” The audience that Malcolm X is addressing in his speech are black people, because he specifically called on them to make changes. “Mr. Moderator, Reverend Cleage, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, and friends and I see some enemies.” Despite acknowledging that some 'enemies' were present, the 'enemies' he referred
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The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), founded by Henry Bergh in 1866, was the first humane society established in North America. The ASPCA outlines its goals in its mission statement: “to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States.” The ASPCA, a nonprofit organization, works to fulfill its mission by caring for pet parents and pets, providing positive outcomes for at-risk animals, and serving all victims of animal
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"Mirrors" is a political advertisement by the Hillary Clinton campaign that has been on television during this election cycle. Hillary attempts to argue why Donald Trump should not or rather can not be president. The advertisement contains first a quick clip of Hillary Clinton hugging a young girl and then merged into a serious clips of young girls looking at themselves in mirrors or cameras. During the scenes of the young girls there are clips and sound bites of Donald Trump saying derogatory things
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11/14/13 Alcohol is what we commonly use to have a good time. You can buy it straight from the store. The only catch is that there is a limit to this good time; you must be at least 21 and over to get your hands on it. As most of us know that hasn’t stop many people under the age limit from getting it. One way of doing this would be having someone of age to buy a bottle of alcohol for them or the famous way of getting a fake ID. What people need to know is that alcohol is a depressant. Alcohol
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