It depends on the context: (a) “That band has some good easy listening music”; or (b) “I am listening to that band’s music.”
Both are fine. Though in both cases, listening is the -ing form of the verb listen, in (a) listening is more of an adjective than a verb and in (b) it is a part of the verb complex am listening.
For simple verbal use, “I listen the music” would be ungrammatical, and the correction would be “I listen to the music.” But! In an intransitive sentence the to goes away: “I listen carefully” is good and “I listen to carefully” would be bad.
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In this excerpt the candle symbolizes Ivan Illyich's approaching death.
Ivan is thinking about his death and what will happen to him afterwards. This is reflected in the candle falling to the floor. Because once there was light from the candle, and since it falls that light is no more. The burning out of the candle symbolizes death.
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Irony is a situation in which the statement someway has an outcome that would not have normally been perceived.
"So foul and fair a day" is ironic because if a day has been negative is most likely isn't also seen to be positive.
The main reason why the Senator begins his sentence with "I speak" is to show his sincerity.
<h3>What is Pathos?</h3>
This refers to the rhetorical device that is used to show the emotional appeals used by a person in a given text.
Hence, we can see that the emotional diction used by Senator Smith is logos as she talks about the seriousness of the situation which leads her to use simple words to speak.
The figurative language used by Senator Smith was shown in "...taken to heart" and it serves the purpose to show that she means they would take her words seriously.
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