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    The audience has to imagine that in the theater are two kingdoms divided by an ocean, and also has to imagine that each man on stage is really a thousand. In lines 1-2, the phrase “a Muse of fire” is an allusion to Greek mythology, specifically to the fact that Muses were daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; the use of this phrase makes it seem like the play is worthy of the gods. Shakespeare uses enjambment (lines 1 and 2 are one sentence) to continue the thought from the first line, and also to emphasize

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    Rhetorical Devices

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    | | |[...] How they clang, and clash and roar! (Poe, The Bells) | Schemes: Word-level |anadiplosis / reduplicatio |(Greek for “doubling back”) the word or phrase that concludes one line or clause is repeated at the| | |beginning of the next | | |A wreathed garland of deserved

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    Introduction: Here I want to show the comparison between Indian philosopher Bhartṛhari and Western philosopher Wittgenstein they deal with language and reality. According to them that language and reality depend on individual, a person can conceive two types of relationships internal and external. Actually what we think about it, language and reality are internally related is to conceive language as necessary means of cognizing any reality. The world can be different than what we perceive or describe

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    In this letter Richard Seaver, a representative from Grove Press, replies to Ira Herbert, an executive of the Coca-Cola Company, in regards to an advertisement for Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher in the New York Times stating “it’s the real thing”. Because of this blurb in the morning paper, the Coca-Cola Company felt it necessary to inform Grove Press that “it’s the real thing” is used to sell Cokes, and demands that Grove Press restrain from using the slogan. The letter undoubtedly mocks Herbert

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    The poem Even as I Hold You written by Alice Walker takes the reader through a paradox of believing that this idea of wanting this person, loving this person so much. However, with more negative words we find that she is, in fact, letting this person go. Even with all the metaphors and descriptive language referring to what she loves about this person the paradox still occurs as she announces in the last line “I am letting go.” While reading this poem, it is interesting to see Walker’s use of the

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    Exercising the Muscles That Build Sentences and Good Business Writing By Mike Consol Jun 23, 2013 The sentence is the building block of writing. It is the component we use to, block by block, assemble a document, story, essay, letter or any other type of writing. But how do we learn to write lucid, effective sentences? One of the students - and teachers - of writing good sentences is Stanley Fish, literary theorist, legal scholar, academic and author of How to Write a Sentence. He argues that the

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    Musical Analysis of “Songs Without Words, Op. 19, No. 3” by Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn composed “Songs Without Words, Op. 19, No. 3” during the Romantic Period. It is known as a hunting song. The form of this song can be categorized as a rondo. This can be argued because the A theme that begins at measure 5 reappears throughout the song about two times. It comes back at measures 50 and 83. In between these A sections are a B section and a C section. The B section starts in measure 29 and

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    back; doesn't want to fight but signals that it will defend itself if necessary. Commentary does not mean paraphrasing the quotation sentence; it means thinking about the feeling behind the quotations and the reader’s response to these words and phrases. Within the two points, the commentary talks about all three quotations. Now look at your quotation sentence. Think of two points of commentary for your choices and write them below: 4. Commentary #l: 5. Commentary #2: What you have

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    persuade the reader into taking one side of the argument. However, in order for this method to work it is beneficial to utilize a variety of different sentence beginnings. This would entail starting sentences with prepositional phrases, transitions or adverbial phrases as well as including them in the middle or at the end of sentences, by doing this it allows the sentence to flow smoothly and contributes to the cohesiveness of ideas (Rogers, 2014). My script made good use of this by using transitions

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    selection of a strong scent is not awkward…and there is no color, not any color” (Stein 19). We ask, how can a speed be open? How can a color be careless? It shouldn’t grammatically make sense, but we as readers are able recognize these as readable phrases that, with an analysis of the rest of the section, inevitably do

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