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Certain catch phrases are recurrently used as pegs to hang the author’s thoughts throughout the essay. List these and discuss how they serve to achieve the argumentative force of the essay.

The catch phrases are-

i. Body- the author describes the importance of the body and discusses how the body is the ultimate phase of being in learner mode.


ii. Spirit- the spirit according to the author is a misleading concept which makes a man get into vagueness. It leads man to things that are unreal to the imagination.


iii. Man alive- this is the realistic concept of the author in which he says that everything happens because man is alive.


iv. Tremulations- Here tremulations are the talks that the saints and philosophers do because of which man-alive may be influenced to change


v. Change- the only constant.


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