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    London Diction

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    implements the phrase “mind-forged manacles” (8). The purpose of this is to emphasize the constraints holding back man are fabricated in his brain, revealing that nothing can hold man back except himself. Blake furthers this point through multiple synecdoches. In the beginning of the third stanza the narrator hears the weeps of the “chimney sweepers,”

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    Stone provides a basic definition of need as the minimal requirements for survival (Stone 98). She characterizes the dimensions of need into 6 categories, which she considers all equally important ways of conceptualizing needs. Improving coverage of tobacco dependence treatments addresses the needs of an individual in several ways. Primarily, tobacco cessation products serve as an instrumental need for tobacco users on an individual level. An instrumental need is a need not necessary for the benefit

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    The study analyzed the figurative languages and poetic vision of Taylor Swift’s Fearless Album Song Lyrics. The Album Fearless is composed of 13 songs that are mostly written by the singer, herself. The Study uses the Descriptive type of method and qualitative form of research. The study was based on the Figurative Language views and definition of Kennedy and Knickerbocker. Results revealed that the poetic vision of the Fearless album focuses and discusses about a girl’s experience on different

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    avant-garde women of Africa. Emecheta in this text criticizes how patriarchy could be a hindrance to economic progression of African states as women often need their husband’s approval before venturing into a new enterprise. She relies heavily on synecdoche that portrays Nnu Ego as the novel’s prime interest. Through this portrayal, there are clear intersections of the everyday individual and a wider link to females as a social group. This easily shapes meaning

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    London by William Blake

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    the city has been sanctioned and organised by the ruling class. The repetition of the word “charter’d” in the first two lines emphasises how the streets and the river are no longer free therefore that London indeed is a strict and confined place. Synecdoche is used to generalise the people of London, by referring to them as “faces". In these faces the speaker “marks” signs of “weakness” and “woe”. The repeated word mark has two meanings. In the third line it means to observe and in the fourth line

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    feeling; the reader can really connect. What comes next is a total role shift between father and son. Manning struggles with the fear of becoming his father’s caretaker, a fear that can lead most adults feel orphaned. Manning then returns to the synecdoche of “the arm” when recalling his father’s protection “…to have overpowered the arm that protected me…knowing his arms are ready to catch me and keep me safe”(159). The longing of emotional love, at this point, switches to a new desire for his father

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    referred to paradox - a statement that is is logically self contradictory hyperbole - an overstatement for the sake of emphasis understatement - a figure of speech that trivializes something that is important, thus making it seem less important synecdoche - a figure of speech that represents a whole or part of a whole oxymoron - a figure of speech in which two paradoxical statements are used together alliteration -

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    Both ‘London’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ explore the ideas of power through social structures, hierarchy and synecdoche. In ‘London’ Blake presents the theme of power through a reportage. The narrator wanders through a ‘chartered street’ and by ‘the chartered Thames’. This shows that in the narrator’s eyes the streets are owned and even an aspect of nature such as the River Thames is in ownership of someone. These owners that Blake refers to is the state who are believed to have acquired so much power

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    NAIFAN CHEN ESSAY: LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS Shakespeare’s sonnet “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” elucidates Shakespeare’s thoughts and opinions on the theme, love. The poet describes how true love is eternal, how it can stand up to time and the way it resists negative inducement. During the sonnet, the poet changes the mood and atmosphere from somber to emotionally positive. Shakespeare uses many language techniques -such as metaphors, repetition and enjambment- to do

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    Barn Owl

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    The synecdoche, “punish beak and claw,” represents the fact that the child can only see and focus on parts of the owl, symbolically denotes that the child is blind to the enormity of what she is about to do. The responder is hinted further, by this synecdoche, on what the persona is about to shoot This is a reflection of the child’s naivety and allows the reader to understand the

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