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Metaphors in Malala's Speech: Literary Criticism Essay

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The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two advocates for children’s rights, including a Pakistani teenager named Malala Yousafzai, at seventeen the youngest Nobel laureate in history. In her speech after receiving the Nobel Prize, Malala Yousafzai claimed that all children deserve to receive a proper education. At the beginning of the speech, Malala uses rhetorical devices and appeals...

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Metaphors in Letter From Birmingham Jail: Critical Analysis Essay

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Near the beginning of the civil rights movement in America on April 12th,1963, eight clergymen announced that Dr. Martin Luther King's protests in the streets should end because they promoted “hatred and violence”. In Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” he emphasizes that he has a duty to fight for justice without the use of violence. King uses rhetorical...

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Metaphors in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream': Critical Essay

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This passage from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare is situated at the beginning of the play and forms part of the exposition. In it, Lysander and Hermia are together alone for the first time on stage. They are both upset because Hermia is forced, by her family, to marry Demetrius or to become a nun when she is...

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Metaphors in 'The Grapes of Wrath': Critical Essay

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I think the setting is important in this piece because I believe the setting will affect many events in this book. I also believe it is important because the author believes the setting deserves its own chapter. “Every moving thing lifted the dust into the air: a walking man lifted a thin layer as high as his waist, and a...

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Metaphors in 'Invisible Man': Literary Criticism Essay

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In chapter one of “Invisible Man,” through his use of imagery and metaphors, Ralph Ellison conveys the premise of how vulnerable and powerless the people of color are made by the whites while living in such an unequal and racist society. Ellison describes a battle royal scene in which a group of 10 young black boys was blindfolded, stripped, and...