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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Simile"”.

  1. Socrates' Simile of the Cave

    Park, Dong-ChunUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Socrates has been widely understood as trying to find a master key to the world of Being, which is distinct from the world of appearances. His question is taken to be a request for a universal definition, which holds the key. However, the notions like "the other world" or "the universal definition" …

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  2. William Faulkner: The Search and the Simile

    Dick, Denise R.

    … what can be learned about Faulkner's use of the simile.</p> <p>Many of Faulkner's characters are tortured by a disparity between their peaceful past and their chaotic present. It was found that Faulkner uses the greatest number of similes in the passages of the novels where the characters are …

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  3. Metaphors Cicero lived by : The Role of Metaphor and Simile in De senectute

    Sjöblad, AronCentre for Languages and Literature, Lund University2009

    … examines the function of metaphor and simile in Cicero’s dialogue De senectute. For this purpose, it employs Lakoff-Johnsonian metaphor theory and compares the metaphorical concepts that the scholars of that tradition have found in English with the metaphors found in Cicero’s text. Many …

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  4. Teaching the Sun as Simile: Bringing Nature into Language Arts Middle School Classrooms

    Kage, Stormy2020

    <p><em>Teaching the Sun as Simile</em><strong> </strong>is an essay that explores an interdisciplinary approach to teaching middle school English Language Arts (ELA) by infusing nature and environmental studies. This essay defines emerging concepts of new literacy studies and eco-criticism, …

    kennesaw Repository record

  5. Um estudo sobre o conteúdo descritivo na interpretação da obra "Quadros de Uma Exposição" de: Mussorgsky

    Reale, Diva EvelynUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro1992

    … The work had, as a point of reference, the "Fac-simile" of the musical composition which made possible, the comparative study between the original and the various editions. In the research, there is a phonographic selection with observations as to the interpretative conception of important …

    brazil-uerj Repository record

  6. Responsabilidad civil médica y aplicación de levantamiento del velo societario

    Duffoo Quintos, Mayra AlejandraUniversidad de Lima2020

    … of the lifting of the corporate veil, making a simile with its use in labor law, in order to attribute responsibility to all subjects that are involved in these complex relationships so that the subject harmed by the event that caused damage can be properly compensated.

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  7. Tra il Salso ed il Platani. Fortificazioni, sistemi insediativi e viabilità tra l'età arcaica e l'Alto Medioevo

    PENSALLORTO, ADRIANOUniversità degli studi di Catania2022

    … e sulla ricerca sul campo. L’applicazione di una simile metodologia allo studio delle fortificazioni rurali del comprensorio tra i fiumi Salso e Platani, nella regione agrigentina, ha consentito di arricchire le conoscenze storico-archeologiche su questo settore della Sicilia centro-meridionale. …

    catania Repository record

  8. THE ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA ABC TRANSPORTERS TAP1, NAP8 AND ATH12 EXTRUDE PEPTIDES FROM CHLOROPLASTS AND ARE LINKED TO CHLOROPLAST PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS MAINTENANCE.

    JERAN, NICOLAJUniversità degli Studi di Milano2023

    … piante. Il cloroplasto originò da un antenato simile ai cianobatteri tramite un antico evento endosimbiontico, in maniera simile a quanto accaduto per il mitocondrio. Come vestigi delle sue origini, il cloroplasto possiede un genoma che ancora esprime poche proteine plastidiali. Come diretta …

    milano Repository record

  9. Statistical Tools for Linking Engine-Generated Malware to Its Engine

    Milgo, Edna Chelangat2015

    … and one of malicious programs from the W 3 2. Simile family of self-mutating mal- ware. The second method, which is an extension of the first method, uses optimized 2-gram frequency vectors as feature vectors and classifies malware by computing its proximity to the average of the NFVs of …

    columbus-state Repository record

  10. SEARCH FOR ELECTROWEAK PRODUCTION OF SUPERSYMMETRIC PARTICLES IN COMPRESSED MASS SPECTRA WITH THE ATLAS DETECTOR AT THE LHC

    BALLABENE, ERICUniversità degli Studi di Milano2022

    … di coppie di chargini è cinematicamente simile a quella del fondo WW, il che rende sperimentalmente difficile separare il segnale dei chargini dal fondo WW. Lo stato finale considerato è costituito da due leptoni provenienti dai decadimenti leptonici dei bosoni W, momento trasverso …

    milano Repository record

  11. The use of figurative language in the 21st century american literature: the case of the novel “the lucky one” by nicholas sparks /

    Drąsutytė, Toma,Institutional Repository of Vilnius University2024

    … devices such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, simile, hyperbole, and epithet. Understanding the prevalence and usage of lexical stylistic devices in modern American literature is crucial for comprehending the depth and richness of literary works. While previous studies have explored various …

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  12. PROGETTAZIONE E SINTESI DI LIGANDI IBRIDI SIGMA-NO LIGHT-ACTIVATED A POTENZIALE ATTIVITA ANTIPROLIFERATIVA. NIH 10495 E DERIVATI: MODULAZIONE DELL ATTIVITA OPPIOIDE, SIGMA-1 ED HDAC NEL DOLORE NEUROPATICO.

    ZUCCARELLO, ELISAUniversità degli studi di Catania2015

    … di binding mostrano un affinità recettoriale simile alla morfina per il sito di legame del recettore oppioide. Inoltre, in questi studi è stato evidenziato che NIH10495, in vivo, ha un inizio e durata d’azione simile alla morfina ed è approssimativamente 30 volte più potente della morfina …

    catania Repository record

  13. A Country Of Giants

    Greenlee, Benjamin Mace

    … are encountering, my heavy use of metaphor and simile--as well as disjointed sentence structure--renders this lack of understanding as accurately and as vividly as possible. Lastly, in addition to my stories I include an introduction to my thesis discussing the influence of other writers, …

    nodak Repository record

  14. Some Major Figures of Speech in the "De Beata Vita” of St. Augustine

    Lenz, Mary Agnes O.S.M.Creighton University1948

    … checked for this thesis are metaphor, metonymy, simile, personification and hyperbole. |The figures checked were listed in the order in which they occur in each chapter. No attempt was made to group them according to their content. |The sentences In many instances are long, so phrases or clauses …

    creighton Repository record

  15. Recettori purinergici ionotropi e i loro ruoli nella neuroinfiammazione mediata dalla microglia

    BARRACO, MICHELEUniversità degli studi di Catania2023

    … di glutammato sono aumentati in modo simile nella neuroinfiammazione e il recettore metabotropico del glutammato mGlu5 è espresso in queste cellule, nella prima parte di questo progetto è stata studiata un'interazione tra questi due sottotipi di recettori. Inoltre, poiché è noto …

    catania Repository record

  16. La scultura a Genova tra XV e XVI secolo. Artisti, cantieri e committenti

    Zurla, MichelaUniversità degli studi di Trento2015

    … Doria e il passaggio nell'orbita spagnola. In un simile contesto si è cercato di enucleare le peculiarità dell'ambiente genovese mettendo in luce da un lato i rapporti con aree limitrofe come la Lombardia e la Toscana e dall'altro l'autonomia rispetto a tali influenze. Nonostante l'origine …

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  17. Mediterranean influences on horticultural and garden developments in South Australia between 1836 and 1938.

    Nottle, Trevor2006

    … as transposed in South Australia. Extending his simile the waves have perhaps been less influence than the thin line of foam left in their wake. While individual and official enthusiasms for things Mediterranean waxed and waned over that century, the threads of the idea remained and appear now to …

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  18. The Practice and Benefit of Applying Digital Markup in Preserving Texts and Creating Digital Editions: A Poetical Analysis of a Blank-Verse Translation of Virgil's Aeneid

    Dorner, William

    … to indicate a set of poetic figures—such as simile and alliteration—within that text for analysis. While neither a translation project nor strictly a poetical analysis, this project and its unique approach to interpretive representation could prove of interest to scholars in several …

    ucf

  19. Using Sentiment Analysis on online product reviews for determining fairness

    Zabek, A.Middlesex University2022

    … aim to simplify unlawful reviews by providing a simile mechanism. Our hypothesis claims that sentiment analysis can help to red flag unfair reviews and, consequently, simplify this difficult process. For that, we measure the correlation between unfairness and sentiments to check how much emotions …

    middlesex Repository record

  20. Effetti della nicotina sulla funzione spermatica in vitro

    GIACONE, FILIPPOUniversità degli studi di Catania2014

    … sono stati osservati ad una concentrazione simile (100 ng/ml) a quella trovata nel plasma seminale di uomini fumatori (70 ng/ml), ad eccezione degli effetti sulla frammentazione del DNA, dove gli effetti sono stati osservati anche ad una concentrazione inferiore (10 ng/ml) di nicotina. La …

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