language such as hyperboles, metaphors, and similes are used. It is effective in describing the graduates’ emotions prior to and during the ceremony. On page sixteen, Angelou places the hyperbole, “ [T]he whole young population had come down with graduation epidemic.” Another hyperbole is placed on page seventeen as Angelou states, “Volunteers fell over themselves to secure replacements for the missing equipment.”Angelou places another hyperbole on page twenty-four
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language throughout the story Araby. The author uses various figurative language to enhance the descriptions of the story. Symbolism is often used throughout the story to symbolize an environment. The protagonist often refers to “light and dark” when describing something. As he describes Mangan’s sister, he always uses the term “light” because she is associated with fantasies to him. The bazaar is associated with darkness at the end of the short story because it refers to reality as the shop’s worker makes
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Truman Capote opens the novel In Cold Blood describing the setting in which the story takes place also including different people in the town of Holcomb. As the reader is introduced to new information, questions begin to be asked. Initially, the author states that “dancing has ceased”, which causes the reader to wonder why has the fun/dancing ended in the town of Holcomb? Naturally, the reader wonders if the described event could be the reason “fun was removed” from the town. By comparison to the
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to get home and everything that he had to do and what he went through on his journey. He also writes similes by describing an event in a story with extreme detail and then repeating it by showing repetition. The epic poem, The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus and his crew have to return back to his home of Ithaca. Homer stylistically conveys that the land of the dead is a desolate, scary place for Odysseus’s development as a character by using imagery, personification, and lots of alliteration. Homer
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How do the poets present time and place in “Electricity comes to Cocoa Bottom” and “An unknown Girl”? The two poems “Electricity comes to Cocoa Bottom” and “An unknown Girl” have a lot of similarities and differences between them about time and place. In the two poems there are some similarities in time. One of them is that both poems could be referring about the same time, the 90’s. The facts that shows that both poems are written about the same time are that in “An Unknown Girl” there are things
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very experienced author and the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize. Before she died of cancer on December 3, 2000 she wrote multiple poems including the poem called, “The Explorer.” The poem is about a man who is trying to escape to a place where there is nothing but quiet and he can get away from everything whether it is the voices of human beings or the choices that need to be made. In the poem “The Explorer,” Gwendolyn Brooks conveys the message that one cannot run from his/her problems
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Jennifer Calvillo Grammar Practice: Parts of Speech 4 / 30 / 15 A noun is a person, place, thing, or concept. > The cat crossed the sidewalk . An adjective modifies or describes a noun . > The black cat crossed the narrow sidewalk . An action verb tells what a noun is doing. > The cat crossed the sidewalk. An adverb tells HOW the action is being done. > The cat lazily crossed the sidewalk. (Adverbs can also modify an adjective)
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The Crusaders as animals. Usmah sees the Crusaders as brave and courageous, but he feels they have nothing else more to them, that their mentality seemed entitled and they seemed to act without thinking. We see this in the excerpt where Usmah is describing Frankish medicinal practices says, “…the physician laid the leg of the patient on a block of wood and bade the knight strike his leg with the ax and chop it off at one blow…the leg was not severed. He dealt another blow, upon which the marrow of
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using a capitol letter for any name place etc. Punctuation- are things like commas, periods, question marks etc. Commas- you can use commas to separate things, usually when you can end the sentence with a periode you can use a comma when you want to add a because to make your sentence have that "why". Periods- To end a sentence also known as to end the idea of a sentence. Complete Sentence -subject: The subject of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being
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encapsulate just how lonely a person can feel during times of change. Through times of change, as described by this poem, the world can seem very tumultuous and dark, and this is the imagery that is a large part of “Dover Beach.” The narrator begins by describing a calm night at Dover Beach, where the moon is high in the sky, and the sea is calm. This imagery provides the reader with a scene that is calm, quiet and to an extent placid. This imagery also serves as the familiar past, which the narrator is
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emotion while describing the flaws in a unanimously male government and encouraging female suffrage as a means of preventing future tragedy. Describing the vast suffering, she ultimately proves that men are inhumane and incapable of leading morally, “through what inquisitions and imprisonments, pains and persecutions, black codes and gloomy creeds, the soul of humanity had struggled for the centuries”(Stanton). Stanton wants the audience to understand all of the tragedies that take place because the
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The role of as care giver is the primary role that nurses play. The text book explains that nurses integrate the roles of communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, and collaborator into their daily duties. Talking to patients, families, and other health care professionals is included in many of the core roles that nurses play. In order for patients, families, subordinates, peers, and superiors to understand the treatment and care requirements involved, a nurse has to be an effective
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Truly successful authors have the ability to convey their view of a place without actually saying it, to portray a landscape in a certain light simply by describing it. In the opening paragraphs of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote does just this. Through his use of stylistic elements such as selection of detail, imagery, and figurative language, Capote reveals his own solemn and mysterious view of Holcomb, Kansas, while setting the stage for an imminent change. Beginning in the first line of the passage
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Task A Research report describing the elements of the product in a business and services context After selecting a hotel of your choice, carry out an individual research into the element of the product of this hotel, and produce a written report of your findings which should include: a) A discussion about the key components of the product and how the product mix contributes to sales and profit (ref. 1.1, 1.2) b) An assessment on how market segmentation contribute to maximise sales (ref. 1.3)
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Quotation and page number: “And over the grass at the roadside, a land turtle crawled, turning aside for nothing, dragging his high-domed shell over the grass… For a moment he stopped, his head held high. He blinked and looked up and down. At last he started to climb the embankment. As the embankment grew steeper and steeper, the more frantic were the efforts of the land turtle.” (14-15) Identify or describe device: Symbolism, Metaphor, Motif Explain as directly and as specifically as you can
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The writer's mood at first is positive, repeating the visual beauty of the desert at night. Unusually, she seems to 'love' the 'vast', bare open spaces, describing the night sky as being full of 'glimmering' 'crystal' stars, as if they are something precious and unique - as if it is an experience she could have nowhere else. She describes the sky as a 'tarpaulin drawn over us' as if it is there for protection. In contrast to this natural beauty, she feels frustration towards her guide - an emotion
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Reading Response Sample #1 The term Geography comes from the Greek word meaning “writing about,” or “describing,” the earth. Geography is the study of where people, places, and things are located and of the ways in which things relate to each other. There are five themes of geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions. The absolute location of a place is its position on the globe. The Equator is the line that circles the globe halfway between the North and
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reader to two young boys who have just entered junior high and are suddenly met with drastic change. With setting, symbolism, and characterization, Rios is able to convey a theme about the loss of innocence when growing up. Rios begins his story by describing how when the boys entered junior high, everything changed. It was like a rug being pulled from underneath them, and just like that, everything was different. To escape from this new reality, the boys would go to their “arroyo,” which was a forbidden
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a more tolerant society. Initially, Sanders explains the history behind American migration, describing it as uniquely “seductive to Americans.” This word choice sets the stage for Sanders’ discussion on the appeal of migration to Americans. He lists groups who have been widely influential to American culture as a way to gracefully explain why migration
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important as nativist readers during this time would be more open to hear ideas shared by white men, as they were thought to be superior and intellectually capable. Although controversial, Jim details the bold aspects of the immigrants’ character, describing the Hired Girls as “menaces to the social order. Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background” (Cather 74). Here Jim refutes the inferiority of the immigrants, in contrast suggesting that their qualities were superior to those
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In describing the horrid image of Frankenstein, the author plays into the theme of judgement. The creature will face discrimination from humans whom only see him as monster, and not a caring creature. Due to the sole fact that the creature is ugly Victor assumes
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Chabon writes XO9 as a form of informative/explanatory essay of sorts, in which he explains his struggles as a writer with his own case of OCD. He starts off with describing in the first paragraph the one woman who obviously stood out the most when describing obsessive-compulsive disorder: his grandmother, and their adventures in public places like the Garfinckel’s department store, the public transit or even Dupont Circle, each one housing a remark on the activities of his grandmother, such as the spraying
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story is that people need to have knowledge when they are in a dangerous situation. Zusak writes vividly about the colors of the sky during the war using figurative language. For example, when he was describing the colors of the sky, he wrote, “The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness” (Zusak 12). The figurative language in the quotation was when Death told the readers that there were black crumbs and
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their love got even stronger as time progressed. Until one day the love of his life died, throughout the poem you can sense his heartfelt love for her even though she has passed away. As for The Word Plum, this poem was describing not only what the word plum means. It was describing how it felt, looked and tasted. As I read it I could picture the word love and what it felt, looked and tasted like. Love is more than just a feeling it is a way of life, we all go through the good and bad times of love
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Sexual Trauma in Egypt Truly prosperous writers have the ability to communicate their view of a place without actually saying it, to portray an object in a certain way just by describing it. In the provided article taken from the opening paragraphs of “Egypt: Impunity Fuels Sexual Violence”, the author does just this. Through her use of stylistic elements such as selection of figurative language, detail, and imagery, the writer reveals her own solemn perspective of Egypt’s sexual violence conflict
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statement • Discussion of your position (sentence describing what strategic argument style you intend to use to present your position) • Discussion of opposing positions (sentence describing what type of arguments you intend to analyze as text and/or visual arguments from credible sources you have selected) • Discussion of why the audience should care (sentence on how you intend to establish your "warrant") • Conclusion (sentence describing what type of argument you will use to convince the
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Dulce et Decorum Est. The choices made by Wilfred Owen are used to depict the scene laid out in front of him and to create a realistic image of the experiences he goes through on the battlefield. While it describes the events taking place through a soldier’s eyes, it also shows the different stages of Owen’s psychological wellbeing whilst writing the poem. The poem is composed of two sonnets, although Owen disrupts the pattern in the second verse with a couplet, and 12 consecutive lines following
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the cave was too narrow for a tiger to come in by”(Kipling 2). Blake’s poem is more so describing the attributes of a tiger as if he is writing a poem describing a painting. On the contrary, Kipling’s excerpt is telling a story, a narrative, on how a tiger(Sher Khan) tries to interact with other living things. The writing style is different in both, which may have been affected by the year these writing’s took place; Blake: 1794 and Kipling: 1984. For instance, Blake’s poem uses words such as thy and
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H/W Chapter 3 Opening - Analysis The first few lines of chapter refer to animal imagery. This introductory section illustrates how the boys – especially Jack – descend into savagery. Golding implements animal like imagery, for example, when describing Jack as “dog-like” and bent “uncomfortably on all fours”. Golding uses this technique to express how Jack is becoming less human like as the novel progresses. Furthermore, Jack’s increased passion for hunting is illustrated with Golding’s constant
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understood; however, some of the effects of love are known. Gary Lewandowski, when describing relationships, stated, “Our relationships build us, they define us, they sustain us, and they can break us too.” . Love can often change how people act fundamentally, often resulting in complete changes of personality. Being loved by another can cause fundamental changes in perceptions of oneself. Firestone, when describing being valued by a loved one, writes, “Being valued or seen in a positive light is
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