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    Commentary for Travel Piece

    Commentary: travel piece ‘Scuba diving in Egypt’ is a travel piece for the Guardian Newspaper in the Saturday magazines travel section. As this pieces genre is a travel piece it is it is made to promote and evaluate features of the place and also to try the sport out and also to show the attractions. The primary purpose for this piece is to inform and a secondary purpose to persuade. This piece applies to people who enjoy reading travel pieces and is interested in specialist and are interested

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    My First Morning At Jerry's Summary

    the so-called “wage slaves”. In further elaboration upon this reality, it is integral to note that they essentially portray unfortunate realities in a vivid, animate manner: an exemplification of the vast dividends that are yielded, thanks to such stylistic tactics. Evidence from the text that further bolsters this claim is shown when the author states, “My first morning at Jerry's, when the hypoglycemic shakes set in, I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so

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    English 12 Terms

    ENGLISH 12 TERMS AND DEVICES A active voice allegory alliteration allusion analogy antagonist anti-climax antithesis apostrophe argumentative essay anecdotal evidence archaic language aside assonance atmosphere audience autobiography B ballad ballad stanza bias biography blank verse C cacophony caricature case study catastrophe cause and effect character characterization character foil chorus chronological order cliché climactic order climax colloquialism colloquial language comedy comic relief

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    Accounting

    It is a clean, clear, simple style of presentation with its own set of rules of punctuation, headings, chart structure, and citation of sources that is used world-wide. The APA approach covers all aspects of writing. It guides the structural and stylistic components of all papers. The scientific paper attempts to show something that has already been verified true, so it calls for the past or present perfect tense when you cite the work of others. Plagiarism is using somebody else ideas or words without

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    Polysemy

    A separate grammatical form can vary in meaning in different contexts of its use like words that are used as signs of many things/ In case of grammatical polysemy we observe various structural meanings inherent in the given form, one of them being invariable, i.e. can be found in any context of its use. Contextual variation of component grammatical meanings as potentially implicit in grammatical form must be distinguished from so-called syncretism, i. e. plurality of the signi¬fied. e.g. A

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    Analysis of Extract from Novel to Kill a Mockingbird

    indirectly as well. In his speech Atticus describes defendant Negro using epithets and bitter irony “And so a quite respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white woman”. The girl in turn is described with a use of stylistic devices with negative

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    English

    LAMIA: Lamia has puzzled critics because of the elusiveness of its theme. Lamia seems to say that passionate love is an illusion and an enchantment, ultimately destructive. Keats presents her sympathetically; she is not an evil creature. Lycius too is presented sympathetically but in living with Lamia he is indulging in "sweet sin." Since he is a high-minded Platonist when first introduced into the story, his love for Lamia is indulging a weakness. When Lycius and Lamia meet Apollonius, Lycius'

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    American Impressionism Vs German Expressionism

    to examine the unconscious forces that motivate their everyday lives. The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari is a prime example of this, as it showed just how terrifying one’s unconscious can make them and how it can even drive them to insanity. The visibly stylistic manifestation is expressed through the films set design, lighting, acting and narrative story. The sets that were constructed for this film are all on slanting, sharp angles, This adds a disharmonious and asymmetrical composition that leads the viewer

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    Carrie By Stephen King Literary Analysis

    Stephen King’s novel Carrie is about a young girl who is abused not only by her peers but by her Jesus obsessed mother. The book follows Carrie and her rise to power over those who have depraved her of a normal life. The book uses Carrie’s point of view as well as many of her peers and news articles. The book is a tragic story of abuse and the internal struggles of a young teenage girl, Carrie, and her peers. The story in this book will manage to stay with you because many of the things that happen

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Analisys

    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The extract under analysis is taken from the Harper Lee’s first novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The book published in 1960 was very successful and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for its author. The plot and the characters are slightly based on the author’s thoughts about his family, as well as on events that took place in her hometown. The narration is done from the first person by Jean Louse “Scout” Finch. The scene is

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