Assignment 2: Figurative Language versus Literal Language The lack of exposure to non literal forms of language makes it difficult to engage in productive thinking. Having the capacity to understand figurative language increases our ability to communicate with each other. By increasing our word bank we expand our knowledge base and increase our thinking capacity. Below are a list of ten words with their meaning, definitions, examples and appropriate circumstances in which to use them. 1. Describe
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English 1B Assignments ------------------------------------------------- Week Seven: October 7-11 1. Think: 2. Read: Lots of reading this week—both poems and prose explanation of how to approach and understand them. Ready??? a) Read “Images,” pages 399-411; b) Read “Figures of Speech,” pages 412-427; c) Read “Symbol, Allegory, and Irony,” pages 428-445; d) Read “Sounds,” pages 447-463; e) Read “Patterns of Rhythm,” pages 464-480. Finally and perhaps most important,
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Name: ______________________________ Figurative Language Worksheet 1 Directions: Read the lines of poetry. Slashes represent line breaks. Figure out which technique is being used: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification. In the boxes, explain how you figured out your answer. It is possible that more than one technique is being used. If you can, explain each. 1. Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed Which technique is being used? __________________________________________________________________________________
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Achievement Test Name: _______________________________ Yr./sec.__________ Date_________ Score: ___ I. Directions: Choose the correct infinitives in each sentence. Encircle the answers. 1. Selfish people will not come forward —— others. A. help B. to help C. to helping D. to helped 2. My teacher came forward —— me in studies. A. help B. helping C. to help D. is helpful 3. —— in the middle of the road is dangerous. A. walk B. to walk C. to be walk D. walking 4. I like —– on violin
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Jack felt like Zeus as the power (simile, allusion) surged through his body, giving him infinite power. It all started as a regular day, it was raining cats and dogs (idiom). Jack was driving home from work when he saw what looked like an old woman standing in the middle of the road, and he groaned is sweet agony (oxymoron). "I want my baby, I want my baby, I want my baby" (anaphora) screamed the woman in a hellish voice. Jack shifted his car into reverse gear and the car started screeching (personification)
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James Newell Community Focus a Key to Success Despite West Sixth’s increasing reach into other parts of the state, it is the inroads the brewery made within its local community that continues to set the pace. And its founders would have it no other way. “The whole idea of the tap room from the beginning was a marketing arm,” Barlow said. “The idea was you make the beer in the back, they taste it in the front, and what you hope happens is they leave here with a good experience and good impression
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Oliver’s poem, “Some Questions You Might Ask”, Oliver discusses the common beliefs regarding souls, and analyzes them logically. The speaker utilizes rhetorical questions, as well as Juxtaposition to portray to the reader that souls are highly unknown, and they are likely not exclusive to only humans. The speaker begins the poem by juxtaposing strong rhetorical questions that force the reader to think about the concept of souls. The speaker asks, “Is the soul solid, like iron?/ Or is it tender and breakable
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and negatively. In the article “To my loving parents; your expectations are crushing me” author Peggy Chen uses many rhetorical and literary strategies and techniques to impact the reader and further her message. These include logos, pathos, and anaphora. By including these devices in her writing, she could impact readers in a way they might not have thought about before. One rhetorical device author Peggy Chen used in her article is the use of Logos. Throughout the article, there were many different
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Rhetorical Analysis No matter what fields you are in, we as academic writers will be familiar with rhetorical choices. Rhetorical choices play an important role in writing. They’re the “key ingredients” in a paper in order to capture readers’ attention and achieve writers’ purposes. When I was in Human Resource Organization Behaviors 101 class, professor Thomas Shirley assigned an ethics case for each group. I joined a group of five people and we got together for several group meetings. Finally
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education and it’s motivation. The theory of rhetorical perspectivism was introduced by Hikins and Cherwitz. They formulated this notion in response to a claim that believed that discourse and rhetoric should enjoy epistemic status. Moreover, discourse shouldn’t be used informatively of insights, but rather used to discover such insights (Hikins & Cherwitz, 1983,1986). Rhetorical perspectivism aims to bridge the gap between rhetorical objectivists and rhetorical subjectivism as a work in epistemology.
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