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    Both ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti and ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ by Dylan Thomas present powerful emotions by using language, form and structure. Although there are many similarities, for example the ideas of death and the idea of saying goodbye, there are many differences. One of the most notable difference is the change in perspective. In Rossetti’s sonnet, the person dying is the one narrating the poem, whereas in Thomas’ poem he is saying goodbye to his father as he moves on

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    Open-class (as known as lexical morphemes) are nouns, verbs, and adjectives which can take additional morphemes. Closed-class (as known as functional morpheme) are conjunctions, prepositions, and determiners which cannot take an additional morpheme. The fifth, we have to understand that bound morphemes are

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    leather shoes. The man wakes up and stands at the edge of the building, looking [participle] into the inner city of New York City. He places [vivid verb] his hand on his oily, greasy face, trying to remember what had happened the night before. Nothing came to mind. As the wind gusted [vivid verb], he shivered [vivid verb] and slipped [vivid verb] his hands into his pockets. He felt two items, a pack of Marlboros and a cell phone. He looked through the list of contacts on the phone, but it came

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    Contrastive analysis means finding the similarity and comparing the differences of linguistic system of two languages (Jawad, 2015; Alduais , 2012). Contrastive grammar is part of contrastive analysis where the similarity and difference of two or more than two languages are the main focus. However contrastive grammar refers to the more specific thing that is on the structural concepts of sentences such as sentence patterns, and connecting words. On other words, contrastive grammar is a study that

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    In the poem, “If I Could Tell You” by WH Auden, a number of ideas surrounding time, the ability to see into the future, and the acquisition of knowledge from the world are discussed. Through the villanelle form, use of time, modal verbs, and rhetorical questions the poet portrays this idea of no one really knowing what the future holds, so we as well just run with it and go with the flow of life. The structure of the villanelle can be used as a representation of Auden trying to make a sense of

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    Christina Rossetti’s “Echo” 1 Come to me in the silence of the night; 2 Come in the speaking silence of a dream; 3 Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright 4 As sunlight on a stream; 5 Come back in tears, 6 0 memory, hope, love of finished years. 7 O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet., 8 Whose wakening should have been in paradise, 9 Where souls brimful of love abide and meet, 10 Where thirsty longing eyes 11 Watch the slow door 12 That opening, letting

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    "I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb." This quote was stated by Robert Downey Jr. The meaning behind this quote is that from time to time we all do heroic things. Like for example,comforting somebody at a time of despair. However, Mr.Downey Jr. describes to be a hero to be a verb instead of a noun. We all know a verb is a word that describes an action. Therefore, he means to say that you can't just label someone a hero. It's not something that happens overnight

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    But in lines 143 Antony uses two verbs to describe Brutus while in line 144 there are three verbs for Caesar. Even though it is a small detail, it shows that Antony still praises Caesar and is still loyal to him. It could be disputed that because Antony used “feared” to describe his relationship with Caesar that it

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    second assignment. To begin this task, I developed an idea about the true meaning and the purpose behind the story. In class, an important lesson taught me how to use active verbs throughout entire passages. This proved to be a struggle in my development of writing skills. I often found myself mixing passive verbs with active verbs, sometimes in the same sentence. Another useful lesson I learned included how to look at my story by Cisneros from an argumentative view instead of a personal view. As a result

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    these revelations through the use of literary devices when developing character personas. Shakespeare blossoms the tragedy through the use of object-subject-verb syntax and rhyming in Friar Laurence’s dialogue, metaphors for Mercutio, as well as monologue and malapropism for Nurse. Shakespeare uses devices like rhyming and object-subject-verb syntax in

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