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    Gerard Hopkins’s view of the timeless conflict between God and man is uniquely dramatized in his Italian sonnet “God’s Grandeur.” I initially thought the poem merely depicted God as great and man as scum. However, after I analyzed the poem’s overall theme, literary devices, and structure, I soon realized Hopkins instead intends to portray God as not only great but also forgiving and nurturing despite man’s failures. Hopkins immediately asserts his overall theme of God’s sovereignty in the…

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    The novel “The Great Gatsby,” is set during the Roaring twenties in which many people were able to attain sustainable wealth in a time were many of the Americans in the east were in dizzying party moments. Women started to change social standards for themselves. A person from any social background could make a fortune, but the American families with old money scorned the newly rich. The narrator of the story is Nick Caraway he tells the story in both the first and third person point of view.…

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    everyone will become “hooked” on it once they play. “In metonymy, a relationship is suggested that is based on association, which implies the existence of codes in peoples minds that enable them to make the proper connections” (25). Using the same example, “There is a soldier in all of us”, the advertisers replace “player” with “soldier” suggesting that these terms are interchangeable in this instance. As James Monaco has noted, “a metonymy is a figure of speech in which an associated detail or…

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    THE SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF CONNOTATION MEANING IN THE HOUSE OF MANGO STREET BY SANDRA CISNEROS I. INTRODUCTION I.1. Background From generation to generation, literary work develops continuously. As we know literature is a feeling, experience or imagination of human life. Literary work which is written in the form of beautiful words is important to many people because it can gives happiness of the life. According to the Oxford Advance Learner’s Dictionary, literature is the writings that…

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    LQ.+The subjective nature of representation offers the composer an opportunity to manipulate a responder into political reflection. Huxley deliberately uses the science fiction medium for Brave New World, a novel reflective of the technological innovations of the 1930’s, to represent the morally displaced actions in the World State. He satirically exemplifies how the government creates a false sense of security and stability through the parody of the French Revolution Tripartite mantra of…

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    Pathos, Rhetoric, and Greater Truths about Life and Death in King John In William Shakespeare’s King John, the main character’s deathbed speech utilizes rhetorical devices and pathos to invoke pity for the dying king. Shakespeare utilizes these devices to strengthen his 3-part metaphor in order to mirror the evolution and dilapidation of King John’s life all within the cusp of six lines. Through this clever use of rhetoric, the playwright reveals greater meaning about the tragedy of death and…

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    dedicated to them. Other differences can be noticed as well between the two headlines, such as the simplistic grammatical structure of the first one and its use of figures of speech. There is a metonymy in the first title, where the word “thousands” is used in place of a word actually describing people. “Metonymy is replacing the name of something by the name of a related thing” (Hicks, 1998:63). Here, the number of people is replaced by a simple…

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    Literary Terms Metaphor: It is a literary device which compares one thing with another that seems not related apparently, but indicates the similarity of the underlying meanings for creating literature effects. In the novel The Count of Mount Cristo which is written by Alexandre Dumas, he uses a metaphor to show the desperate life that Edmond underwent when he lived in the prison.“At this instant a bright light shot through the mind of Dantes, and cleared up all that had been dark and…

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    Taylor In Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, he is addressing the country, it’s people, and it’s soldiers that were fighting in the Civil War at the time. Within his speech, Lincoln has included some anaphoras, specifically towards the end when he states “...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”. This is an anaphora as he is repeating the phrase “the people” three times in the same sentence. He is using this technique to persuade his…

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    ABSTRACT The gothic novel, albeit not considered high literature, counts among the most distinctive literary genres. The literary form was at its prime in late 18th century, although its days of glory have past elements of the Gothic can be found even in contemporary literature. Over the centuries, several sub-genres of the gothic novel have developed, including Southern Ontario Gothic. This branch of the Gothic is characterized by criticism of social attitudes towards race, politics, gender and…

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