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    rhythm has changed, there's now a gas attack and the soldiers are shouting and rushing trying to get there masks on in time 'Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!-An ecstasy of fumbling'. Owen then wants the reader to picture this so uses caesuras and exclamation marks to emphasise exactly what's happening and this makes you imagine the soldiers in a sudden rush for the masks. Then Owen describes the gas attack as being under water 'as under a green sea' this suggests Owen wants you to imagine

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    It would be good if it was made clear that this was another form of interruption wish you had never seen the sun go down! Despite the sexual tension between Proctor and Abigail, the pace decreases, which is indicated by the absence of exclamation marks. Furthermore, the entrance of Rebecca Nurse decreases the pace. Through theses changes in rhythm and pace, Miller emphasises the calming influences of Proctor and Rebecca and thereby evokes sympathy towards them from the audience. The audience

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    into exclamation marks. Three frogs hopped in the playground, freed by a dunce, followed by a line of kids, jumping and croaking away from the lunch que. A rough boy told you how you where born. You kicked him, but stared at your parents, appalled, when you got back home. As we move on to the third stanza we relise the change from in school to out of school for the easter term. The frogs changing from commas to exclamation marks : commas are small, weak and insecure but exclamations marks

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    war. The composer has done a great job at using this technique because he conveys the fact that they are not just objects of war, they are people and need to be treated as such. This song conveys a very strong emotional message due to the use of exclamation, one part of the song simply says “Stop!” and this simple yet powerful word conveys the emotional message that war is not ok and it needs to

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    expressions. As a language learner, I am exposed mostly to the formal and academic language styles, which led to my interest in a new range of vocabulary. Notwithstanding, the expressions and exclamations were quite obsolete, which made it hard to recognise in current daily life. Additionally, the most used exclamation in the film was ‘hell’s bell’ by Huck coupled with ‘mighty’ as an adverb. Barely have I stood a chance to experience someone speaking the aforementioned expressions, but it was comprehensible

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    Mood In The Raven

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    the course of the narrative, the protagonist becomes more and more agitated both in mind and in action, a progression that he demonstrates through his rationalizations and eventually through his increasingly exclamation-ridden monologue. In every stanza near the end, however, his exclamations are punctuated by the calm desolation of the sentence "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore,'" reflecting the despair of his

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    Krake Short Stories

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    laser tag with those new friends of hers. On a whim, you pull up the texts again, scrolling all the way down the screen to the empty text box, waiting to be filled. “Happy birthday!” You only send two words. Two words and an exclamation point, but really, does the exclamation point really portray how you

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    Julius Caesar Assignment Tess Macintyre IGCSE English Literature Discuss the contribution made by the two women, Portia and Calpurnia, to the play as a whole. In William Shakespeare’s drama Julius Caesar, Shakespeare’s numerous characters include just two women; Calpurnia and Portia; the wives of Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus respectively. Though the parts are small, they each make important contributions to the play as a whole. Both women in Julius Caesar exist only in the context of their relationships

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    This comic strip takes place in the bedroom of a teenage girl, Amy. Amy and her mother are arguing because the mother has asked her four times to clean up her clothes, but it is clear she has not yet done so. The conversation escalates because the mother claims that Amy never listens to her, and Amy responds with a feisty comment back. 2. The conversation is initiated by the mother who comes through the door, expressing her frustration that Amy still has not picked up her clothes. 3. One of

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    thematic concerns in relation to women, in the 1600s. She explored this through the themes of; the restricted roles of women, the battle of the sexes and Class, money, gender and power, she utilises literary techniques; such as dialogue, first person, exclamation and allusion to convey these themes. In a girl with the pearl earring the protagonist, Griet, is sent to be a maid the artist Johannes Vermeer and his growing family. In this household she becomes close to Vermeer’s work, and eventually the secretive

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