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    was taken from him by scarlet fever. Since Poe felt the madness that is expressed in “Annabel Lee” he is able to create a mood of pure insanity from the narrator. He pulls a couple of tricks in order to create this feeling such as repetition and metonymy. The narrator also has a few uncommon ways of speaking about love and death that helps prove the madness that the narrator has. Repetition is strewn across each stanza in order to mimic the ravings of a lunatic. But Edgar Allan Poe takes…

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    we find ourselves trapped with our not-so-significant others. In George Meredith's melancholy poem, the author explores the weening relationship between a man and his wife and the outcome of modern love through imagery, metaphor, personification, metonymy, and simile. In order to express his view of "modern love", Meredith introduces a sobbing wife and her husband. The author portrays the common obstacles of relationships as the couple experience an obvious quarrel. The wife "wept with…

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    this passage, politics reveal the gender competition through the use of personification of social constructs like anarchy and obedience, symbolism of men and woman through these political terms, specific word choice of these social constructs, and metonymy to further explicate the gender rivalry. By analyzing meanings of certain words involved in this passage, the underlying message can be deciphered. The passage starts off with the word “Unruliness”, but the book cites this word and states…

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    Genres and Figures of Speech Overwhelming for many, the Bible presents challenges as one begins to read it. Written by multiple authors, and inspired by God, it displays a variety of genres and figures of speech sprinkled throughout for the reader to experience. Becoming familiar with several of the different genres and figures of speech within the Bible, a person’s understanding of it will increase. Genres Apodictic Law One of two major types of legal material present in the Old Testament,…

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    His idea centers around the difference between metaphor and metonymy in language, and thus, in aphasia. First, he describes what metonymy, a substitution for a word (suit for a business person), and metaphor, a word that means something like the original word. Depending on how one uses these types of language, and whether one prefers one over the other…

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    The “Gooses quill” in this poem is also an important symbol by Metonymy. Synecdoche is part of something that's used to signify the whole, Metonymy is somethings which is closely associated with a subject is substituted for it. A hand In “The hand that signed the Paper” the hand is actually the ruler. Thomas uses the hand as a way to distance the ruler…

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    detectable in verbal metaphors. An early study of metaphors in pictures is Kennedy (1982). Kennedy takes “metaphor” in the all-encompassing sense of what literary scholars call a “trope” or a “figure of speech” and identifies some 25 types, including “metonymy,” “hendiadys,” and “litotes.” Kennedy‘s early discussion of metaphor is restricted at some extent, so in later work, Kennedy elaborates on his theoretical work in various experiments. Kennedy (1993) reports, among other things, how…

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    truly unique way. By using a narrative development, Parker shows the importance of zombies within the modern world, through societal mentality and personal emotion. Lastly, linguistic characteristics such as informal diction and slang, similes and metonymies, as well as repetitive emphasis allow Parker to emotionally affect his audience in order to make the essay more enjoyable to read, as well as to better describe and support his points. Nevertheless, the essay became slightly too informal to…

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    In a 1906 speech, during the time known as the Progressive Era, President Theodore Roosevelt warned the American people against muckrakers. Roosevelt expressed his negative feelings towards newspapers, magazines, and books that attacked public figures with insults and lies. In summary, his speech declared that it is good for reporters to state the bad things that bad people did in the government. However, there are many muckrakers who lied about government and corporate figures for good…

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    Metonymy is a figure of speech that allows individuals to associate a symbol with what is signified. a. Meaning is created in a figurative sense by the signifier. b. The meaning derived here is based on word-to-word connections. c. Metaphors rely…

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