In this Frostsonnet, the speaker employs the kenning “petal-fall” to describe the autumn. The full text of the poem has been included, not for any particular reason, other than it’s simply a lovely, striking poem. 4. Word Play Examples: Malapropism A malapropism is a device primarily ...
whenherescuedtheBullsfromendingagameonatie.Hesteppedtothelineandmade twofreethrows.Eachtimehethrewtheballstraightthroughthebasket—andeachtime hehadhiseyesclosed. Thereisonlyonewordtodescribethebestplayerintheworld—awesome! 【译文】 迈克尔·乔丹——篮坛超人!
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before she is even born, one of the reasons she is closer to her father in her early years. Johanna would also have one daughter Anna, it is she who begins to narrate this story, she visits her mother in hospital, desperate to get answers to questions she has left it too late to as...
Groff uses the word virago several times to describe her protagonist, including in Marie’s own thoughts of herself. Virago, literally a woman who behaves like or has the bearing of a man, comes from the Latin root vir, meaning man, from which we also get virile and virtue. The connotati...
Is what to make of a diminished thing. —“The Oven Bird” by Robert Frost In this Frost sonnet, the speaker employs the kenning “petal-fall” to describe the autumn. The full text of the poem has been included, not for any particular reason, other than it’s simply a lovely, striki...
"Orange" when used as the name of the fruit came before "orange" as a word to describe color. While the shade itself existed before the fruit, there was not a name in the English language for the color. Before the introduction of the fruit to English-speaking countries, the color was ...
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"IWW rhetoric and songs fed the myth of the Wobbly as a wild and woolly warrior, a man who contemptuously scorned the conventional morality of what he characterized as 'bushwa' society." But what's even more fun, O'Conner and Kellerman report, is that the derisive tone of "bushwa" quick...