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    wants to show her audience what the stanzas are saying that Frost make the readers avoid the hidden meaning. She sees some phrases in the poem “equally laid” and “just as fair” are the same. Frost may have used unnecessary phrase in his poem to give it a smooth transition or to make the poem sound more soothing. The source from Christina have proven that some of the phrases in his poem are unnecessary and readers misinterpret him as a professional…

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    A group of six strong men, participate in a passionate game of wheelchair basketball. The soft, beautiful notes in the background, ascend into the air and stay there. As the game ends and the group of men leave the gym together, a man’s deep, determined voice says, “ dedication, loyalty, and friendship”. “Guinness:Wheelchair Basketball”, by director Noam Murra, incorporates all the sounds and emotions that show above. This commercial was released September 2013 on tvs everywhere across the…

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    in the Unit are as follows; Clichés are figurative phrases that have an implied meaning different than just a literal one. Especially for a person who is newly learning a language, the clichés as much as may be used in communication would not make much sense. Clichés do not necessarily have to fit in the situation they are applied and are mostly idiomatic. It is a good practice to avoid their use in formal communication. A good example is the phrase ““The grass is always greener on the other…

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    can be classified as both southern and northern. Baltimoreans do not pronounce every letter in some words. We use a lot of phrases, slang, and we shorthand a lot of words and phrases as well. Baltimore’s phonology plays a huge role in having a conversation and pronouncing words because Baltimoreans do not pronounce every letter in certain words or we shorthand words and phrases. Baltimore’s lexicon plays a role when calling our family or friends by their relations to us. Baltimoreans have a very…

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    them there is a time when the fear will dissipate and the healing will start. Moreover, because alliteration makes phrases more appealing to the ears, the lines are easier to remember. The repetition of "weep no more," not only in the same line, but once again in lines 182-183, "Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more;/Henceforth thou art the genius of the shore" further drives this phrase into readers' memories (2. 165/182-183). It is not the intense symbolism for death that Milton both…

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    The situation starts off with a letter being sent to Seaver an executive of Grove Press whom Coca-Cola is trying to make Grove Press get rid of their slogan since Coca-Cola sees that it is similar to their slogan "It's the real thing" and also the slogan belongs to Coca-Cola. The next letter is Seaver's response to Herbert's letter to which he sarcastically disagrees with and is satirical throughout his letter in the means of mocking Herbert for the statements made in his letter. In the end,…

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    When the reader first analyzes the poem, it naturally comes of as harsh or scary. The first thought that comes to mind is that the drunken father is abusing the child. Although after further analysis of the poem it seems as though that is not the case. The poem doesn’t sound as though it was the happiest memory of the child’s life, but it wasn’t a memory he feared either. In the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” written by Theodore Roethke, the speaker’s experience seems to be a positive one based on the…

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    Michael Hodge Analysis

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    class. Your revised, final copy of your narrative paper, with at last one worked over rough draft, will be due on November 16, 2016. Your paper must also include the following: one correctly used semi-colon or colon; one correct gerund or “ing” verb phrase; one correctly written exchange of dialogue; and one exclamation point. Each of these sentences should be underlined, italicized, or highlighted so I do not have to go searching or guessing. Lastly, one sentence you must identify with an…

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    After finishing my first semester of English, I can say that I have improved immensely as a writer. Coming into the class, I was not very confident in my abilities as a writer. I did not think my word choice was above average, I thought my sentence structure was something that could be qualified as trash, and I felt like I could not address my audience in any way. However, after this first semester, I feel that everything has changed. Through evaluating my own work this semester, I have been…

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    Syntactic Rules Analysis

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    When the adjective switches to a complicated adjective phrase, the adjunction rule established from the previous case no longer justifies sentence C and D. In this case, given that capable of winning and candidate do not select each other, when we combine them in the order shown in sentence C, the sentence becomes ungrammatical. However, when we switch the order of combination of the adjective phrase and the noun, as shown in sentence D, the sentence is now considered grammatical…

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