Phrases

not affect the meaning of the instance. In addition, the joke ends with the idiomatic expression “she's not easy”. The phrase refers to a someone who is easily seduced and sexually promiscuous. The humorous effect of the joke arises from a parody of Snow White as a woman of easy virtue who lives with seven other men but still is hard to get. In order to retain wittiness of the phrase, the translator uses a metaphor “apvynioti apie pirštą”. This idiomatic expression is used to describe a naive…

would do everything in his power to make America a great country again. FDR emphasizes how he can help the country in the ways that they need help most through his use of anaphora. Throughout paragraphs nine and ten, he repeats the phrase, “it can be.” This phrase is repeated multiple…

said: your salaah is not valid if you didn’t read Surah Fatiha in it. There is how important the Surah is. للهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ اللهِ بِسْمِ In the name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful. The Holy phrase bism ill ah ir rahman ir rahim is, in fact, mentioned both at the onset of the Quran and at the beginning of every surah, except Surah 9 ( Surah Taubah ). And, since the purpose of Allah’s Word, i.e. the whole Quran, is to guide people; as…

In The Book Thief , Mark Zusak use of syntax , his arrangement of words and phrases , is used in a creative and significant manner. The author uses varying sentence lengths and dramatic pauses in order to provide meaning to the passage. In passage above , Death gives the reader insight into Max Vandenburg's dream. Max recollets on his boxing match with the Fuhrer , Adolf Hitler, and how Hitler through just words convinces the entire nation of Germany to turn against Max. Hitler convinces the…

animals of mystery. There is more to bats that meets the human eyes. Bats are amazing creatures that have a couple of contrasts with humans. In the short story “My Life as a Bat,” by Margaret Atwood, Atwood uses phrases to highlight the differentiation between bats and humans. One phrase appears when Atwood “reincarnates” as a bat. Atwood says, “When they kill, they kill without mercy, but without hate” (19). This quote exemplifies a major difference that bats possess while humans do not. When…

didn’t like really changed many people’s lives. One thing that i’m really scared of is going back into segregation. Thinking of this scares me because we’ve had many deaths that have happened that changes black lives forever. You may have heard of the phrase,…

words and phrases that are used to encompass a group of people of all genders can be viewed as sexist in favor of males and we as a society have accepted the use of these gendered words. This is a fairly common use of language by the majority of society and it is thought to be widely understood that when one uses words such as “him”, “he” or “guys”, they are indicating both males and females as a whole. But why as a society have we adopted this sexist language of male pronouns and phrases to…

It was only so powerful by the fact that she was trying to put fear into the army, if she would have not used that phrase then her troops may not have had the same amount of adrenalin going in.[cause and effect] Pathos is demonstrated to persuade her troops in the simple phrase Elizabeth vocalizes “to live and die amongst you all.” (line 7) In this phrase and throughout the entire speech she is empowering her troops. To empower means to give the authority to do something which is…

How this time of day, the town would be most lively and how “girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim”. This phrase tells us how the girls would become more inviting deeper into the night. It can be inferred from the next phrase “before he threw away his knees” that it was the soldiers own carelessness that lead to him losing his legs. It can also be inferred that the soldier regrets losing his legs for he knows that…

The lyrics are comments of the movie from an audience’s perspective, which appreciates the interesting and meaningful plot. The most surprising part is that there is only one phrase in the chorus, which is the title “Still got nice pork belly”. Pork belly is often used in Cantonese cuisines, for instance, crispy roast Chinese pork (Siu Yuk, a type of Siu Mei, particularly popular in Hong Kong and commonly found in restaurants…