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    Attention Getters- setting-onomatopoeia- question My first time Jet Skiing in Mexico Have you ever gone jet skiing and felt so nervous that you had butterflies in your stomach? I have. In Los Cabos, Mexico, the water was clear blue like the sky. It was on November 20, 2017 when I was 13 years old ,and me and my sisters went jet skiing for the first time. WHOOSH! I was so nervous and scared to go on a jet ski. I woke up the morning and I put off my jet ski suit and walk out of the hotel…

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    techniques perfectly illustrates her agonizing struggle with depression in “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”, “After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” , and “__________________” Through her utilization of many literary devices such as caesuras, onomatopoeias, imagery, and word choice, Emily Dickinson…

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    A poet has the ability to describe a variety of situations, events, and stories in different ways. A poem evokes different emotions in different people, and everyone walks away with a unique experience. Similarly, dancers can also express a variety of emotions and demonstrate different aspects of human life such as love and anger through their dance performances. Hence, the different forms of art such as poetry, dance and music all have a way of creating a connection between the audience and the…

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    Band Dinner Narrative

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    restaurant looked like they wanted to leave. I couldn't blame them, I wanted to leave as well. I went there looking for some good music but got the opposite which upset me. People started to stand up and leave the restaurant. I heard the buzz (onomatopoeia) of a telephone, it sounded like it came from right next to me. In fact it did, it was the woman who was sitting at the table adjacent from ours. She was on the phone with someone and I happened to hear part of the conversation as she walked…

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    In the song Roar sung by Katy Perry, it explains that how the singer is going to stand up for herself and make sure that she is heard. This is teaching people that they can stand up for yourself to anyone and he/she will feel better when they do so. The first verse, “I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath” would be an idiom because that would hurt her tongue and she would pass out from the lack of oxygen. It would be realistic for her to do that. “Scared to rock the boat and make a mess”…

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    making clear complementation among lyrics, purpose and video transitions. Firstly, Taylor Swift has chosen a great topic to talk about which is relationship. She provided a lot of figurative language to grab audience attention. In particular, onomatopoeia was mentioned when she said “I remember, oh, I remember’’. She also used metaphor when she said “when the monsters turned out to be just trees’’. Using this figurative language brings the story alive, and I felt like I am imagining…

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    Ghost Of The Grotto Essay

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    comic visually stimulating and makes the reader more involved in both the drawing and the words. However, the last three panels have a picture-specific combination, as the panels can be understood without the text, but also montage combination: onomatopoeia are integrated in the picture, but also act as a soundtrack of the panel. This makes the comic more lively and more comical for children. The association of both additive, picture-specific and montage makes the comic more entertaining for a…

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    The poem tells a sad story about a boy who works at a saw mill. His sister calls him for supper, out of excitement, he jumps up and partially slices his hand off. The writer uses various literary techniques and structure to describe the way in which the boy died and the aftermath of the death. The poet mentions a saw which is portrayed to almost be alive. Firstly, the writer uses 1st person narrative voice to convey his views towards the boy’s death. His perspective shows that he knows what is…

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    A blow to the body can leave you paralyzed, it can happen at anytime or anyplace. It can happen during a car accident or while walking down the stairs. A fracture to the spinal cord makes a person’s odds of ever walking again a slim, three percent. What if this happened to you, or even worse your child? Would you question your faith? Would you ask yourself “why me” or “why my child?” In Chris and Terry Norton’s father-son memoir The Power of Faith When Tragedy Strikes, the Nortons tell Chris’…

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    The Highwayman

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    The Highwayman is a poem by Alfred Noyes that will send a chill down your spine. The poem uses very descriptive language to create a theme that will possibly leave the reader spooked. The opening lines, “The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy trees” use vivid language that fills the reader’s mind with threatening images that can remind the reader of an experience that he or she had. Noyes engages the senses in the first part by…

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