The last picture is one of the Mr Potato Head' family playing Twister', and this would add comedy value to the cover, but also has connotations of the young age of the audience, and perhaps, that they may not be as grown up as they would like to be, so makes the magazine more relevant for their age group. ... This may not be known by first glance at the picture, so the writing besides it anchors the picture. This feature shows that the magazine contains behind the scenes photographs from the new Matrix film, due to be released soon, so shows that the magazine is up to date with c...

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The poem "Oh, Oh' by William Hathaway is a poem that takes the reader through a pretty scenery that is very calming and relaxing until the very last line where the speaker hits the reader with quite an unpleasant feeling. ... The reader can just picture a young couple strolling through the country side with cattle roaming around and just so at ease with the world that nothing could bring them down. ... One could picture serene trees with specks of sunlight grazing through the leaves. ... Another aspect of the poem that shows a childlike feeling and tone is when the speaker talks of b...

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• Grade Level: High School

Firstly, Owen uses imagery effectively in disabled to stir the readers' emotions by picturing how the disabled soldier feels after returning from war. Owen starts of the first stanza by saying "he sat in a wheeled chair" this shows the readers that not only has he come back from war and lost his legs but by using the word 'wheeled' Owen is portraying to the reader how helpless this solider is as he has to be assisted by someone to even move as he has no legs or an arm. ... This man did a pointless sacrifice to help fight for his country but as shown in stanza 6 "...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Poets like Owen paint a picture of this emotional struggle through their diction and help readers to understand the hardships that face soldiers on a daily basis. ... It is the last few lines of the forth stanza that Owen points out that war is not all glory and honor. ... Although Owen has the skill of painting a gruesome picture of the front lines, he can also paint the picture of the after effects of the war. ... It has only been a year and his life has changed so much that he is no longer the same person; "He's lost his colour vary far from here,/Poured it down shell-holes till th...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the first four stanzas, Frost sets up the reader to picture nature as a woman, capitalizing Nature, and using the pronoun Her. ... In addition, Frost also uses paradox to show the fleeting worth of something precious. ... The use of time in the lines: "but only for an hour" (5), and "so dawn goes down to day" (7) show in itself how nothing valued lasts forever. ... The line "So Eden sank to grief" (6) shows a tone of sadness as well, giving Eden a human-like quality. ... Finally, the poem comes full circle, with the last line repeating the title "Nothing ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Last Minute Errors The essay, Fatalist Attraction, was a well-written and well-supported document. ... Taking it all in, she doesn't have a picture of her all her degrees along with the text, but with the way the text is presented she makes herself seem credible. ... Another error would be that the author seems to change her stance in the last paragraph. ... This one last sentence not only confuses the reader but discredits almost the entire essay. ... Her last minute change of mind discounted a lot of what she wrote. ...

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I also learned how to use the past and future to create a vivid picture in the readers mind. ... Another thing that I learned from this class is to show a strong level of maturity. ... At last, I really enjoyed being your student, and I am not trying to kiss up. ...

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The word "vouchsafe" is used to show a higher elevation of vocabulary. ... Words that create imagery are used so that readers are able to create a clear picture in their minds so that they can see exactly what is happening in the scene. ... The peace does not last for long. ... Kate Chopin's characterization of Edna Pontellier shows a lot about the character's growth throughout the passage and the whole book. ... The diction Chopin uses throughout the passage shows Edna's growth. ...

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It shows the everlasting painful conditions of a soldier "bent double", "trudging" through mud with bloody feet and blind eyes, cautious to every second, aware of the death beyond death. ... For the last stanza Owen used the present continuous tense, omitting full stops to give the sense to the reader that this is happening right now next to them. ... As it is hard for anyone to imagine the devil, Owen brings in an image in the last stanza that is beyond one's mind to picture, "Like a devil's sick of sin." ...

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"Mourn for our daughters, Upright as statues, brave" (45) contains a simile that compares the women who suffered the atrocities to statues because statues are respected, as should be the women, and this picture is painted in the reader's mind. ... After the history lesson children run to their toys (1719) This shift takes the reader out of the speaker's position to show how lightly the horrible actions are taken because the people mentioned in the text have not thought of the individual person's suffering and do not care enough to do so. ... Connecting to this first l...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A man who lived his life to the fullest up until the very last breath of his happily fulfilled life. ... This shows us how morrie respects and adopts core values as opposed to materialistic values. ... Juxtaposition of past and present shows Morrie as a healthy energetic teacher at university and now a diseased riddled old man at home. ... Morrie used such language to show us how to embrace what's important such as love, family community and other people. ... Selections of detail by the author helped the reader to "paint one picture" of the whole book and understand this ideology. ...

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Golding has several characters in the book that fit under each broad category and as the names show, have specific traits that put them there. ... Simon is the only character in the novel to have a grasp on the bigger picture of what goes on. ... The last main character in the novel seen as "good- is Piggy. ... Jack has a progression in the novel that shows that evil can get worse. ... Referred to as the "littleuns- by Golding, these boys show the innocence that once existed in all of the boys on the island. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Plath's full blown admittance of this thought shows up in line seven when she says "I'm a means" as if this is her only purpose (Plath 775). ... Picturing it exactly as what Plath says makes it seem kind of humorous, but once we imagine a woman trying to walk around that way we understand that Plath's in a problematic position - this conveys her ambiguity toward her pregnant state. ... The last line, "Boarded the train there's no getting off," is a type of enjambment or continuation of the previous line where we see the speaker overindulges and most like...

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This clearly tells the reader that Luz was in the man's bed, and it shows the passion that the man has for her. ... Hemingway shows, "She hoped he would have a great career and believed in him absolutely. ... Though the wording is very confusing, the reader learns of this from the last sentence of the story when Hemingway writes, "A short time after he contracted gonorrhea from a salesgirl in a loop department store while riding in a taxicab through Lincoln Park"(359). ... Hemingway paints a picture of passion, desire, and infidelity through this short tale. ... Hemingway describes...

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To truly think that this is what can be spent in seconds here and only lasts a month there- is astonishing. ... It is in this line that shows style and tone together as one. ... The imagery of this statement paints a clear picture for the avid reader. ...

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Other important aspects for writers that King thoroughly explains include a number of portions: description "" is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story- (King p. 173); dialogue and building characters for fiction ""gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters - (King p. 180); theme ""approaching it as the most sacred of sacred cows - (King p. 200); pace "" the speed at which your narrative unfolds- (King p. 220); last, but not least, research "" a specialized kind of back story- (King p.227). ... I am pretty sure that th...

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This poem shows how the simplest things in life may have the most tremendous impact on a person. ... Action words like "walked (1)," "pulling (13)," "touched (16)," "led (16)," "entered (22)," and "turned (25)" are used to show what and how things happen. ... The last sentence indicates just how good the boy feels inside and just how memorable of an event this is for him; "That, from some distance, /Someone might have thought/I was making a fire in my hands (54-56)." ... It is described in a way that paints a pretty picture in one's head and therefore is something yearned for, "how cut...

• Word Count: 1527
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School