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A Pragmatic Study of Persuasive Analogies in English Ads
آداب الكوفة, 2023 Analogy is a figure of speech used in different fields including advertising. Metaphor and simile are the figurative devices used for creating analogy. Unlike metaphor and simile, analogy has not received enough attention from researchers.
Siham Alkawwaz, Saeede Al-Khalidy
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, 2009 Unspell, for voice and electronics, reflects my continuing interest in the musicality of speech. The “pre-text” for the composition is l’Attente (Waiting), by Roland Barthes, from the book Fragments d’un Discours Amoureux (Fragments from a Lover’s ...
Ruviaro, Bruno
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Record the track and track the record: On the call‐and‐response dynamics in Hip Hop practice
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Call‐and‐response has primarily been studied in Black Atlantic artistic traditions. We transpose call‐and‐response dynamics to the writing and recording process of a Hip Hop studio session. Combining collaborative autoethnography with formal analysis and using Communication Accommodation Theory's conceptual parameters of conscious and ...
Dastan Abdali, Steven Gilbers
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Compound simile in Farokhi Sistani and Manoochehri’s works
Literary Arts, 2011 Compound simile (antapodosis) is a kind of simile in which two things are likened to each other. The vehicle in this type of simile is more than one part and the image resulting from the simile is compound.
Mohammad Hakimazar
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Insight into the Community: Bee Similes in the Iliad and the Aeneid [PDF]
, 2016 This paper offers a comparative analysis of the bee similes in Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid to demonstrate that there are significant thematic connections between the similes in the two epics.
Heist, Sara
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Imagining Climate and Environmental Transformation in the European Union
Contemporary European Politics, Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT The EU is clearly committed to its response to the climate and environmental crisis. Transformative policy solutions and targets have been set within the Union to restore 90% of degraded ecosystems and reach climate neutrality by 2050. The EU also remains one of the biggest donors of climate and environmental development aid.
Simon Hollis
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Investigating the Relationship between Rhetoric and Arabic Syntax Based on the views of Jurjāni and Sakkāki (Case Study: Omission and Apposition in Simile and Metaphor) [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغیThe rhetoric, as we know it today, initially appeared in the early Islamic centuries as simple and scattered viewpoints within the margins of other disciplines such as literary criticism, Quranic interpretation, theology lexicography and syntax.
Nahid Jamshidi +2 more
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Ways to die for warriors [PDF]
, 2017 Homeric similes and comparisons have many narrative functions. In death scenes, they contribute to the characterization of victim and aggressor and of death itself.
Scheijnen, Tine
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Food Frontiers, Volume 7, Issue 2, March 2026.Purple sweet potato polysaccharide (PSP) ameliorates lipopolysaccharide‐induced ulcerative colitis in mice through multiple coordinated mechanisms. Oral PSP administration dose‐dependently: (1) Modulates gut microbiota composition and increases short‐chain fatty acid levels; (2) strengthens intestinal barrier function; (3) attenuates systemic ...
Peng Yu +18 more
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The Conflict Between Life and Death Instinct in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lite: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya, 2022 This study aims to show how Hawthorne uses characterization techniques and figurative languages such as metaphor and simile to describe the mental state of Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne's characters.
Albertine Minderop, Syarif Hidayat
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