Full Bright Scholars • This poem is about when he first saw Plath • Use of first person, draws us in. painstaking his own memory • "Where was it, in the strand? A display"- Questioning his memory. • "A picture of that year’s intake....."- Follows up with a series of statements. • "You" become the addressee • Very tightly Structured • Veronica Lake- actor • "Your Veronica Lake bang. Not what it hid"- Plath had a scar on her face • "It was the first fresh peach.....- returns to his own memory
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townspeople as a judgmental, jealous mass in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The old, stereotypical, Southern Black accent is prevalent throughout the novel, allowing the reader to see the speakers as uneducated laborers. Their judgmental rhetorical questions relate their feelings of jealousy towards Janie, asking what a “forty year ole ‘oman doin’ wid her hair swingin’ down her back lak some young gal”(1) and other probing questions, silently comparing themselves to and judging her. Yet these
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Compare the methods the poets use to explore the connection between people and the places in which they live in ‘Hurricane Hits England’ and one other poem. In the two poems ‘Hurricane Hits England’ and ‘Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan’ both poets use a variety of literary techniques such as the setting style and themes to invoke within the reader a sense of the narrators nationality in the poem. The poem ‘Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan’ is set in England with a girl remembering her
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came their way”, due to the anaphoric repetition the author creates intensification, that states the problem – what in beautiful on the outside may be dreadful inside. Obviously, the theme of the work is reflected in the title of the story. The rhetorical questions (who but someone suffering from a guilt complex would want to much light to pour into the rooms?; Why be o intense about digging holes) give a detailed emotional description of the Crutchman's life. The world of things puts emphasis on
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AD ANALYSIS Tata Motors launched in 2012, a poster in Malaysia which aimed to promote their new car, Tata Nano and also to promote the safety of the civilians by offering a safer and cheaper option of transportation. The advertisement text – ‘change the burden’ tries to convince the Malaysian families which are poor and are in large numbers the dangers of travelling by bikes or second-hand cars. This is depicted by the big picture in the advertisement that shows 5 people sitting on a bike and they
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came their way”, due to the anaphoric repetition the author creates intensification, that states the problem – what in beautiful on the outside may be dreadful inside. Obviously, the theme of the work is reflected in the title of the story. The rhetorical questions (who but someone suffering from a guilt complex would want to much light to pour into the rooms?; Why be o intense about digging holes) give a detailed emotional description of the Crutchman's life. The world of things puts emphasis on
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Week3 – Discussion 1 I found the point of view in the Persuasion is to get others to see things your way or to convince them that there is something that needs to be done or said. To get someone to think like you do. Both Persuasion and Argument are interchangeably, persuasion writing is to convince you to see things their way, and in general, where as argument is a specific type of persuasive that is based on logic and evidence. I found that the tone for Persuasion should be strong emotional
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Humorous Devices Pun - "The two pianists had a good marriage. They always were in a chord." (Hyla Hope Harder - Oklahoma) A pun is the humorous word usage where a phrase is used in such a way where the words relate in the context but the meanings are different but I then forms a play on words. This is a pun due too the play on words where it says the pianist were in a marriage which they weren’t they were just close, and the way they were in chord which is a piano term. Hyperbole - "I will
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Within the atmospheric poem, “Anthem for Doom Youth” by popular war poet Wilfred Owen, the harsh and melancholic nature of war is fully exposed. Owen makes excellent use of language, from and structure to further retell the horrors of war. Owen makes use of structural devices to even highlight the damaging context of war, “Anthem” the is a 14 line poem into two stanzas, the rhyme scheme differs slightly from a Petrarchan sonnet (ABABCDCDEFEFGG) however this is ironic as the general theme of a sonnet
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the residents of Harlem had black skin, their dreams were deferred. L. Hughes shines light on the minds of Harlem past and everyone else’s, who’ve experienced a dream that never came true or hasn’t yet. He effectively uses similes, metaphors, and rhetorical questions to express how he feels about a dream being postponed. The “dream” is a goal in life, not experienced while sleeping. an expected goal. The poem, in its’ current form leaves the dream up to the reader. But the poem was originally titled
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