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Dead, Alive Or On Hold: The American Dream By Brandon King

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The author Brandon King in his essay on, The American Dream: Dead, Alive or on Hold. Employs many different types of repetition, contras, anomalies and literary devices to help get his point across on why the American dream still lives despite the recession the country has faced where the existence of the American Dream has been questioned. Brandon begins to use repetition both positively and negatively with words such as dead and alive that describe the so called American Dream and where it stands in the eyes of many, although many think its dead for King it seems to be much alive and it’s no longer a rags to riches idea but rather an idea of the potential to, “work for an honest, secure way of life”. He Uses negative repetition to also point
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