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    Caged Bird

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    How do we know which season the poet describes? A. The season is spring‚ seen in the springing grass‚ first bird‚ first bud. Note the simile here‚ which helps us picture the pastoral scene which the bird so desperately wishes to join. What figure of speech describes the flower? A. The poet refers to the fragrance of a flower as it opens. He uses a metaphor to compare the flower to a goblet. What type of figurative language is used here? A. The poet uses personification‚ “cruel bars‚” attributing

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    analogy paper

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    nick ruggiero analogy paper love prison of high school love is great‚ we all long for the day we set our eyes on our most beautiful soul mate. but the only problem is that people now a days are searching for their "prefect boyfriend/girlfriend" way to soon and are taking advantage of there youthful lives‚ especially at the high school and college level of young adults. falling in love and being in a committed relationship in high school is like going to jail for the next 4-8 years out of your

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    Logical Fallacies

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    CRITICAL THINKING PSU LOGICAL FALLACIES Ad hominem or ATTACKING THE PERSON. Attacking the arguer rather than his/her argument. Example: John’s objections to capital punishment carry no weight since he is a convicted felon. Note: Saying something negative about someone is not automatically ad hominem. If a person (politician for example) is the issue‚ then it is not a fallacy to criticize him/her. Ad ignorantium or APPEAL TO IGNORANCE. Arguing on the basis of what is not known and cannot be

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    What Is a Solid Argument?

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    A solid argument consists of a claim‚ reasons/evidence and conclusion. “Reasons are beliefs‚ evidence‚ metaphors‚ analogies‚ and other statements offered to support or justify conclusions. When a writer has a conclusion she wants you to accept‚ she must present reasons to persuade you that she is right and show you why. You cannot determine the worth of a conclusion until you identify the reasons” (Browne & Keeley‚ 2012‚ p.28). Absent reasons or conclusion the argument is weak‚ unclear‚ pointless

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    Mapping

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    descriptors‚ file names‚ file numbers‚ etc. In logic‚ linguistics‚ and psychology: Conceptual metaphor‚ an understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain Metaphor‚ cross mapping across two or more seemingly unrelated subjects Analogy‚ inference from a particular to another particular In operations research: Mapping of operational areas for the placement of resources in Production‚ costs‚ and pricing sites Mapping of sales regions and the location of customers for directing

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    Sonnet130 Analysis

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    are dun; *If he had not been satirical‚ this line would probably be “her breasts are as white as snow‚” which would have been a simile. If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head. *This is a metaphor because Shakespeare is making an analogy between wires and her hair. I have seen roses damasked‚ red and white‚ But no such roses see I in her cheeks; *Once again‚ if he had been in earnest‚ this would have been “her cheeks are like roses”= simile. And in some perfumes is there

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    English Final Review

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    Carl Angelo Rabino  5th hr Ms. Otto  6­10­14    10th Grade English Final Exam Review    Writing Process  Tone­​ is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience  Ex:Angry: Cans. Beer cans. Glinting on the verges of a million miles of roadways‚ lying in  scrub‚ grass‚ dirt‚ leaves‚ sand‚ mud‚ but never hidden. Piels‚ Rheingold‚ Ballantine‚ Schaefer‚  Schlitz‚ shining in the sun or picked by the moon or the beams of headlights at night; washed by  rain or flattened by wheels‚ but never dulled

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    Crossword Puzzle

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    (reading) 16. dictionary meaning (denotative) 17. same meaning (synonym) 19. most required in listening (attention) 20. listening is a _____ activity (passive) 22. we listen not for words but for _________ (meaning) 23. explain or describe similaity (analogy) 24. the S in SQ3R (survey) Horizontal 3. forming of words from initial letters (acronym) 5. refers to a big class (generic) 6. groupings of related things (clustering) 8. words that help in understanding meaning (clues) 10. other word for ’Obstraction’’

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    Expository texts are created to manipulate the audience to accept a certain point of view. In the article “Consumerism”‚ author Catherine Deveny presents a satirical picture of modern Australia as a greedy and unhappy nation in the grips of a dangerous epidemic of consumerism where citizens excessively spend money to try and alleviate their pain. She suggests that although this behaviour may help the economy‚ it is detrimental to our spiritual economy. She encourages the audience to support her view

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    blackberry picking

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    fairytale pirate who cold bloodily murdered his wives. The pickers’ palms are explicitly alluded to Bluebeard’s palms when it says that “[their] hands were peppered/ [w]ith thorn pricks‚ [their] palms sticky as Bluebeards.” From here‚ using a simple analogy that picker is to blackberry as Bluebeard is to wife‚ we can infer that the blackberry symbolizes the wife. Thus‚ it is safe to say that the blackberries are like the wives‚ just maturing until the fruits are seized by the children and metaphorically

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