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| " The Pandora woods is a lot like the Amazon rainforest (the movie stops in its tracks for a heavy ecological speech or two), and the attempt to get the Na'vi to 'cooperate' carries overtones of the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan." |
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| "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." |
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| The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words. ("I like Ike") |
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| "know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan." |
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| the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel. |
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| A mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem. |
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| A rhetorical term for an adjective (or adjective phrase) used to characterize a person or thing. ("Back Breaking Work") |
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| Writing that imitates ordinary life with a local flavor. |
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| Believable circumstances but non every day events. (kind of the way Mrs.Sachar described it) |
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| the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech. |
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| agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state or condition of being parallel. |
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| "The White House called a press conference." |
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"A boy answers the phone. The caller asks, "Where are your parents?"
"They ain't here!"
"Come on, son. Where's your grammar?"
"My gramma ain't here neither. She's gone to church!" |
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| Represents life and every day events occur. (I know it's a bad definition but it's a pretty simple idea.) |
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| The study and practice of effective communication. |
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| the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. |
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"Talking to myself there
Someone had overheard.
I was lost for a word.
There was nothing to share.
Embarrassed I was there.
Left awkward and absurd .
A broken wingless bird.
With nowhere to fly there.
Caught red faced there was I.
Didn't want to be seen.
I just wanted to die.
I just wanted to scream.
I'm so terribly shy.
Lost for words it would seem." |
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