Essays on Euphemism

 Recently, Adult Learning (AL) has become a very popular and effective mode of learning. Globally, an increasing number of adults opt for further study and self-development. Adult learners learn for different reasons and have many valuable assets for continuing education. There are, however, challenges adult learners face in pursuing further education. Adult learners are differentiated based on age or cognitive maturity and can be classified as non-conventional learners. The paper engages the subject of adult learning from a critical viewpoint to explicate the problems that characterize it with the aim of problematizing the idea of adult learning beyond conventional ...

Introduction

Over the decades, the United States of America has been an egalitarian human society that has dedicated its resources to the eradication of women inequality and racism (Katz & Moore, 2004). Besides, it has formulated numerous legislations to push for equality for women, emancipation of slaves, and civil rights movements that aimed to promote equal treatments of the American Society (Katz & Moore, 2004). Despite these tremendous steps, racism and gender discrimination in the workplace still continues to be prevalent. In particular, women and minority groups like African-American have been the main target of this discrimination. The discrimination takes various forms ...

A social commentary is a piece of work that expresses opinions and expressions about a historical event, appealing to the audience’s sense of social justice. George MacDonald Fraser wrote a novel known as “Flashman “in 1969, which he identified as a reflection of his childhood memoirs.The novel entails the escapades of Flashman. The character is a fictional character that initially appeared in Tom Brown’s work “School days”. The author used his interest in being a soldier in Asia, and quitting his job as a journalist as the majormotivation for writing this novel, and the other series that ...

Classic English Literature: Research Paper

The writers and poets use different literary devices and literary techniques to convey their message. The literary device is thus a way of conveying a message by the writer. The literary devices interconnect the literary techniques and literary elements with each other as an essential part of the literature. In this research paper, an analysis of the literary devices used in literature shall be carried out with a view to understanding their usage and relevance to the writing of literature. More often, the writers use the term literary devices for referring to the typical structure in their written work in order ...

The hypothesis “The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis” by David Thompson is a description on how a person’s language may affect the one’s perception on reality. It is mainly known as “The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: World Shaped by words” essay. The hypothesis stated “The background linguistic system/the grammar of each language is not merely a reproducing instrument for voicing ideas but rather is itself the shaper of ideas” (Thompson 115). The original theory on this thesis had been structured by Benjamin Lee Whorf and Edwrad Sapir. Whorf’s came up with unique argument on analysis of languages as well as its effect on different ...

Language is the art of expression and it constitutes of a wide variety of ingredients which tend to elaborate it from different perspectives. When a language is translated, its meaning is transferred to another language. But when we tend to transfer the meaning of different contexts inherent in a single language, similes and metaphors are used to make the connection. Euphemisms are also some debased cousins of metaphors; the basic difference is that when a metaphor is used, its meaning is obscured while the euphemisms would seem one thing whereas their meaning is completely different. The linguistic status of the euphemism is doubtful ...

Figurative and literal language is a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language. Figurative language refers to words or expressions which alter the conventional meaning of the component words. On the other hand, literal language refers to the original meaning or words which convey exactly what they mean. English language is at times considered as the most difficult language to learn due to the use of figurative language. This paper will define and give examples of different types of figurative language with their appropriate usage. The examples of figurative words are idioms, amphibole, metaphors, analogies, euphemisms, cliché among others.

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This article was written by Vidal Gore to inform the Christian world on the importance of subscribi9ng to only one supreme being. In doing this, he used a lot of rhetoric aimed at helping him to deliver this insightful knowledge to the believers. Rhetoric is the art of writing that helps the writer of a speaker to improve their communication in the pursuit of persuading, enlightening or motivating the audience about an issue at hand (David M., 2004),Surname In this peace, Gore uses a combination of alliteration, euphemism, assonance, rhetorical questions, repetition, metaphor, just to mention, but a few. These ...

Learning a language can be quite troublesome for a novice, however with time and practice the fluency and sentence construction comes automatically without making a conscious effort. A small mispronunciation or a fuzzy structure of the sentence can lead to a complete change of meaning of the entire sentence and therefore it is important to maintain current collaboration of words, grammar and sentence structure. It may be easy to interpret the meaning just by knowing the words however the actual sentence is constructed only once all the words and related grammar falls into place. For example, the words ‘Sun, ‘Rises’ and ‘East’, may be ...

Abstract

This paper discusses the relationship between figurative and literal language as well as the differences. Also discussed in this paper are the forms of figurative language, their definitions and how to place them in context, highlighting respective examples. Misuse and misunderstandings of these forms are as well discussed.

The English language is characterized by numerous figures of speech some of which are comprehensible and self explanatory while others are confusing. This makes the language an interesting one since if everyone merely conversed employing literal vocabulary, the dialogues would be unexciting and dull. The solution to appropriate usage would be ...