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Shakespeare uses vivid and powerful forms of imagery to let the audience visualize the setting. Lady Macbeth is portrayed as a strong woman who is attracted to power and would do anything to be in control; she is anything but an elegant and sensitive woman. After the bloodshed begins, however, Lady Macbeth falls an easy prey to insanity and guilt. Her soliloquy (5.1.24-30) shows her decline into madness when she says,“out damned spot...” There are many examples of visual and aural imagery throughout

Amazing poets are able to write their innermost feelings even while going through their trying times. One writer that became famous through her writings is Sylvia Plath, who was able to write throughout her difficult life. She wrote of deep topics, such as depression and suicide, but also wrote of common experiences that most people go through. Sylvia Plath explains her thoughts of pregnancy through her poem “Metaphors.” She does this by using puzzling riddles and comparisons. Her words make a reader

“One of these days he was going to get a gun and practice shooting, then they couldn't talk to him as though he were a little boy”(Richard Wright). In the wake of a monotonous day at work, seventeen year old named Dave heads over the fields towards home, as yet pondering a contention he'd had with some other field hands that day. He pledges to some time or another possess a firearm and get the regard he merits from everyone, and he needs to demonstrate to the others that he is not any more a youngster

monosyllabic words to build up the tension and intensity of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s staccato-dialogue conversation. Shakespeare also uses a traditional kind of verse known as the Iambic Pentameter (unrhymed).  It consists of a ten-syllable line with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (“da DUM”). The majority of this play alternates between prose and blank verse. Blank verse resembles prose in that the last word of each sentence does not rhyme, however, there are the occasional rhyming

Positive mind, positive vibes, positive life. This was the trilogy of sentences that Amelia repeated constantly in her negative-thinking mind. Thinking positive was Amelia's biggest goal, but at the same time, it was her greatest fear. Such a simple task, yet it was nearly impossible for Amelia. All of her family, friends, teachers, and therapists gave her the exact same seven-letter word; believe. Believe. Amelia had studied this word hundreds, possibly thousands, of times. To have faith or confidence

details himself as a young man, serving to give a time and place to both the album itself and our narrator himself, as a developing adolescent trying to avoid trouble and pitfalls of the street, but letting his desires overcome his sense of logic (“Seventeen, with nothing but pussy stuck on my mental”). As it continues, we see Lamar at his most selfish and arrogant, we see him struggle with peer pressure - “Usually I’m drug-free, but shit, I’m

A Review of Eskelund, MacDonald, & Anderson (2015) Question According to Eskelund, MacDonald, and Anderson (2015), when we look at a person’s face features we are perceiving their identity, expression, along with their speech. Eskelund, MacDonald, and Anderson (2015) look into auditory speech perception through audiovisual integration and its correlation with the McThatcher effect (the orientation of the eyes and mouth on an inverted face). The reason for this is to see if the Thatcher illusion

Tragedy Turns to Triumph             Emily Dickinson is an 1850s poet whose unique writing style was not formally recognized until after her death. Dickinson had a way of breaking all the rules, yet it brings her a long way in the end. Throughout her life she suffered a number of tragic events which she poured into her work. These works will eventually become famous. Dickinson wrote about relatable things that are still relevant today causing her fame to continue to grow.             Emily Dickinson

Musical Hybridization: Surveying Guillaume Dufay’s Marian Antiphons & Vergene Bella Piero di Cosimo dé Medici, Florence’s ruler in the 1460’s , designated Guillaume Dufay as “the greatest ornament of our age.” Born in Cambrai, northern France in 1397, Dufay’s life was bifurcated between France and Italy. Known as “The Father of the Renaissance,” he is credited with over 200 sacred music works including the first Requiem mass , and multiple Marian antiphons. In the Renaissance, Marian veneration

quatrains followed by a sestet and uses an iambic pentameter. However it has a typical Shakespearean rhyming (ABABCDCD EFGEFG) and has three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet. ‘The Soldier’ is undoubtedly a Sonnet with having fourteen lines, ten syllables with a definite rhyme. It could be suggested that Brooke’s intentional use of a sonnet was to portray a love song of all things English and England as a country. Owen uses his firsthand experience of a gas attack to bring home the harsh, brutality