the Bad‚ and The Daily Show” his purpose was to formulate a response to the uncertainty regarding the legitimacy and ethics of ‘fake’ news sources. Zinser begins by discussing if it is acceptable to obtain information from a humorous and often satirical news source (in this example‚ The Daily Show)‚ he points out that “the question isn’t whether Jon Stewart or the show’s producers and writers are morally corrupt people‚ but whether or not fake news is‚ on the whole‚ beneficial or damaging to society”
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consumerism‚ which has lead to `conformity‚ and eroded the individuality of many people. The idea that our view of the world can only be seen through television and that our experience of life is restricted and controlled by it is highlighted in the satirical poem‚ Tele Vistas.(1977) This idea is revisited in The Not So Good Earth.(1966) Television in consumer society is the prime source of information and entertainment. Dawe expresses his concern that we have become desensitized to human suffering because
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pentameter with alternating rhyme)‚ as Gray’s does in the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard‚ a poem from which the elegiac quatrain takes its name and which must have had an important influence on Hope. The movement of ideas in “The Death of the Bird” is clearly demarcated by sentences‚ and every quatrain‚ with only one exception‚ ends in a period‚ so that grammar and form are almost completely congruent (here too the resemblance to Gray’s Elegy is 1 striking). Of course‚ the period around 1950
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets William Shakespeare The Sonnet Form A sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem‚ traditionally written in iambic pentameter—that is‚ in lines ten syllables long‚ with accents falling on every second syllable‚ as in: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The sonnet form first became popular during the Italian Renaissance‚ when the poet Petrarch published a sequence of love sonnets addressed to an idealized woman named Laura. Taking firm hold among Italian poets‚ the sonnet
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home) it will never change. Atwood tells the reader not to focus on the “who” and “what”‚ but to focus on the “how” and “why” (259). She portrays her satirical style by using empty adjectives‚ a tone of irony‚ and metaphors throughout her work. Atwood uses adjectives that are not descriptive enough to create imagery as one way to show her satirical tone. She uses adjectives like
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In A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift‚ the author proposes a plan to help evoke a sense of pity for Dublin’s poor. A satirical tone is expressed throughout as Swift ‘modestly’ proposes a plan to kill underprivileged children. Through the use of ethos‚ logos‚ pathos‚ and kairos‚ Swift expresses ways to improve his country. Throughout the story‚ Swift uses ethos to help create a sense of credence towards his ideas. Swift’s proposal describes how Dublin could potentially benefit from it. He states
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time period‚ and Ben Jonson’s‚ “On My First Son” which takes place around the 1600s. Both pieces of poetry deal with the passing of human life‚ which in other words means that we must all die eventually at some point in time‚ and they do that in elegies. In the first piece of poetry it starts out with the narrator: “Often the wanderer pleads pity And mercy from the Lord; but for a long time‚ Sad in mind‚ he must dip his oars into icy waters‚ the lanes of the sea; He must follow the paths of
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VOCABULARY FOR STYLE ANALYSIS 1. The problem of the text: to set an important (serious‚ burning‚ urgent‚ vital) problem‚ to solve the problem of‚ it seems to be a great problem (of ...)‚ to render the idea of social injustice‚ inequality‚ pollution‚ humanity‚ charity‚ the state independence‚ unemployment‚ discrimination‚ to tackle the problem of 1. The point of the story: to make the point plain‚ to show how vital the point of the text is‚ to expound the point by repeating the
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write to entertain their audience‚ yet they may also write to get important messages across to their audience that may have to do with politics or world affairs. An example of this is Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” from the year 1729. In his satirical work‚ Swift claims that the impoverned people of Ireland should sell their children to be slaughtered for meat. It would fix both the economic problems and the famine that the country had been facing. His purpose for the essay‚ quite obviously‚ was
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1. Write a short analysis‚ of about 350 words‚ identifying features of the passage that demonstrate that it is an eighteenth-century text. You might consider features such as vocabulary and language‚ or social‚ political or cultural concerns. Firstly‚ the passage is written in the form of prose. The eighteenth century literary realm was dominated with English prose‚ and is called an age of ‘prose and reason’. With the critical literary writers of the period in need of something more than poetry
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