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    really force change on its elite institutions?). All this elements serve for render the official character of communication. To convey the main idea of article the author brings into play an abundance of expressive stylistic means and means of speech characterization. Japan’s Banks: Survival of the Fattest? Japan has wasted nearly a decade refusing to attack its mountain of bad bank loans (metaphor). It has gone from wildly underestimating the size of the festering pile (synecdoche)

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    which women usually suffer when they are forced to lead a married life devoid of love and freedom and this theme has been conveyed scrupulously by the author through the infusion of selective style of writing‚ sentence structure‚ word use‚ use of figure of speech‚ and use of symbolism. In this story Chopin did employ the strategy of third person omniscient point of view which is “a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story” (Wiehardt

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    Skrzynecki’s and how his life was. Some of the techniques used are: Similies: A simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind‚ as an illustration or ornament‚ the effect that a simile has in a poem is that it paints a picture in our minds as a simile is a descriptive set of words e.g. “And smoked like a dozen Puffing Billies” Personification: A figure of speech that gives human qualities to abstract ideas‚ animals‚ and inanimate objects. It affects

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    Psalm 27: A Psalm of David Psalm 27 comes to us in the middle of the book of Psalms. Psalms is like a book of poems. These scriptures paint a picture and gives us hope‚ strength‚ or informs us of God’s love whenever we need some encouragement. Psalm 27 is entitled “The Lord is My Light and My Salvation” and hails from story of David. This Psalm is a Psalm follows a pattern that goes back and forth between praising the Lord‚ and crying out to him for help before ending with a strong statement

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    GENERAL NOTIONS 1. Kinds of Literature Literature can be subdivided into various kinds according to various criteria. It can exist in oral (folklore) or written form; literary speech can be prosaic or poetic. Literature can be divided into fiction and non-fiction. Non-fiction is a prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people‚ places‚ events. The main forms/genres of non-fiction are character sketch‚ journal‚ letters‚ memoirs‚ biography‚ essay etc. Fiction is

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    LIBERTY UNIVERSITY PSALMS 19 ANALYSIS A PAPER SUBMITTED TO DR. MARK MCGINNISS IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE OBST 610 LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BY SONJA HILL JULY 6‚ 2012 The Book of Psalms is a compilation of beautifully exquisite poems which were used as prayers as well as sung as praise and worship songs for public and private worship by the children of God. The Psalms are not simply prayers nor are they simply hymns‚ they cannot

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    make the point that the best way to deal with inner emotions/feelings is confronting or talking about them. Not only does Blake use an extended metaphor‚ but allusion‚ tone‚ and title also contribute to his message. An extended metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two essentially unlike things at some length and in several ways. In “Poison Tree”‚ the poet compares a tree to the speaker’s anger. Throughout the poem‚ the tree grows which resembles the speaker’s anger growing. In lines 3-4‚

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    The Sandwich Factory By Jason Kennedy The main theme of the short story The Sandwich Factory is the mechanization of human beings. The plot takes place in 1994 at a sandwich factory and we meet the narrator who works there. Through him we get the impression that the employees are no longer considered humans or individuals‚ but just one of many. The factory threatens to turn human beings into machines by thwarting the development of their emotions and imaginations and in the end of the story the

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    synecdoche A figure of speech is which a part is used to represent the whole‚ the whole for a part‚ the specific for the general‚ the general for the specific‚ or the material for the thing made from it. As in ’hired hand’‚ ’a fresh pair of legs’‚ ’No 10 announced today’‚ ’have you seen the latest Spielberg?’. • "Take thy face hence." (William Shakespeare‚ Macbeth V.iii) • "I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." (T. S. Eliot‚ "The Love Song of

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    Vicky Limbrick English 102 February 13‚ 2011 Instructor – Handy Symbolism Symbolism and other figurative speech in The Birth-mark and The Thing in the Forest Birth – Mark : First and fore-most the birthmark represents the fatal flaw of humanity‚ and that eventually we all fall into sin‚ sorrow‚ decay‚ and death. I think that the birthmark represents the desire for perfection or in this case the lack of. Georgina’s husband found her birthmark to be all consuming blot on her otherwise beautiful

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