to somehow change or improve society. The documentary‚ Waste Land‚ is directed by Lucy walker and features contemporary artist Vik Muniz‚ who is well known for creating art out of trash and recyclables. The film follows Muniz as he collaborates with five catadores (garbage pickers)‚ making portraits of them out of the garbage they pick from the Jardim Gramacho‚ one of the world’s largest waste dumps on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Waste Land is a film that reveals the power that art has in transforming
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RHETORICAL DEVICES & FIGURES OF SPEECH (Bringing Brightness and Buoyancy to Language: Prose & Poetry) 1. allegory: (Greek‚ ‘speaking otherwise’) It is a story‚ poem‚ or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning‚ typically a moral or political one. It has a double meaning: a primary or surface meaning; and a secondary or under-the-surface meaning. It is a story‚ therefore‚ that can be read‚ understood and interpreted at two or more levels. 1. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is
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behavior. The devastation left from WWI‚ the absence of hope and faith and the loss of values contributed to many authors’ feelings that the world lacked purpose. This is visible in literary works: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot. Modernism generally encompasses a variety of specific artistic and philosophical movements. The premodernist world is characterized by sense of order and stability‚ rooted in: morality‚ faith‚ collective
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14 Figures of Speech EN9/NCSHS Figure of speech is intentional departure from straight-forward‚ literal use of language for the purpose of clarity‚ emphasis‚ or freshness of expression. In general or broadest sense‚ its purpose is to make expression more effective‚ more striking and more beautiful. One special effect of it is developing thinking skill for it indeliberately hides a true meaning presented in another form or figure. While there are about 250 identified figures of speech‚ fourteen
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In regards to the speech in figure 11-9 I would improve the style of the speech in a different way. In addition after reading about oral reports I get a clear understanding the importance of business communication and the manner in which an individual is been treated by their colleagues in a facility or company. The manner in which I would improve the style of Ethanol in Fuel speech‚ I would begin with a greeting depending on the type of day such as Good morning or Good afternoon‚ several of these
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Introduction: Figure of Speech Figures of speech (or ’rhetorical tropes’) are ways of using words that may seem unusual but have a specific and desired effect. Read as ’normal words’ they often break normal rules of grammar‚ but can be nevertheless understood they are common in poetry and eloquent speech. ’Figures of speech’ is often used generically‚ and the big list here includes not only figures of speech but also a wider range of rhetorical and linguistic devices. Discussion: Kinds of Figure of
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T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is a complex and fragmented poem that underwent major revisions before it was published in 1922. The published version we see and read today is actually shorter in comparison to what Eliot had originally written. According to James Torrens’s article “The Hidden Years if the Waste Land Manuscript‚” Eliot had mailed “54 pages of The Waste Land‚ including the unused parts” to John Quinn‚ a “corporation lawyer in New York City‚” which had shortly disappeared after Quinn’s
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English A1 HL Stanza Analyses Sir B September 30‚ 2010 T.S Eliot’s “The Waste Land” Madame Sosostris‚ famous clairvoyante‚ | | Had a bad cold‚ nevertheless | | Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe‚ | 45 | With a wicked pack of cards. Here‚ said she‚ | | Is your card‚ the drowned Phoenician Sailor‚ | | (Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!) | | Here is Belladonna‚ the Lady of the Rocks‚ | | The lady of situations. | 50 | Here is the man with three
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In the Waste Land: An Analysis by Cleanth Brooks‚ Jr. continues to have multiple quotation that are considered to be noteworthy‚ significant‚ and revealing to the ongoing argument that has been made by the other critics. Is when Cleanth Brooks‚ Jr. referees to lines that says “Where fisherman lounge at noon: where the walls/Of Magnus Martyr hold” (209) indicates the poverty that religion has fallen. This explains that Brooks‚ Jr. was able to notice that T.S. Elliot was frustrated in this specific
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Examples of figures of speech in romantic poems In the poem “Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth ‚ “ the anchor of my purest thought” in line 109‚ the author uses a metaphor comparing the idea that nature makes the speaker feels safe and the role of memory and imagination as something pure. In the poem “Ozymandias” by Pershy Bissy Shelley‚ The hand that mock ’d them and the heart that fed in line 8‚ it is an instance of Synecdoche and Alliteration. The hand that mock ’d them makes reference
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