Diction‚ Syntax and Imagery Have you ever listened to a young child talk? I mean really listened? They don’t sound like a teenager or an adult‚ do they? In Eleven‚ Sandra Cisneros uses different techniques to help Rachel’s age come out in her speech and thoughts. Diction‚ syntax and imagery help the reader to better interpret Rachel’s youthful thoughts and feelings. Sandra’s use of diction helps the reader understand how Rachel is feeling when she is accused of the sweater belonging to her. “…She
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1.11 Bad News Messages Example of a bad news letter Your order for five Canon LPB-8 A1 Laser Printers arrived today. This lightweight‚ rapid-speed‚ letter quality printer is the leading machine in the field. Our main function is to purchase office equipment in large quantities and then resell it to retailers. In order to do this most efficiently‚ we ask that all orders be for at least 12 units. If you will call me at 551-5656 and increase your order to a dozen or more‚ your machines will
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The BFG is a book about a little girl from an orphanage named Sophie who is lying awake in bed one night and sees a giant walking the streets. She tries to hide once she has seen him but it is too late. He takes her out of her room and runs back to his cave. At first she is worried that he is going to eat her but he is not that type of giant. He is known as the Big Friendly Giant and eats disgusting vegetables that taste like rotting frogs. His main idea of fun is catching dreams and blowing the
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What makes a monster? A monster makes itself. A person will not be considered a monster if they are kind‚ gentle and warm hearted. You’ve never heard a person say‚ "Gandhi was a monster‚" or "Mother Theresa was a monster." You could hear someone jokingly call a tall or large person a monster just because of his or her size. Society can also make a monster. As you saw in Frankenstein‚ if the monster had a normal body or a normal look to him‚ he wouldn’t have been rejected‚ which‚ in turn‚ he wouldn’t
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English – the whipping boy ”The Whipping Boy‚” written by Richard Gibney in 2011‚ is a story about a never ending war. In the story we meet three recently freed slaves‚ who don’t know how to cope with their newly given freedom. Officially‚ they are free to leave‚ but different reasons force them to stay for a little while longer. This essay will examine the main characters’ relationship with their owners‚ their way of handling their new freedom‚ and the significance of Gibney’s use of foreshadowing
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Added Value Unit Introduction Our first impression of Mary Maloney is not one of hatred or anger. She seem’s like a kind-hearted women who is so inlove with her husband that it must hurt. When recieving the bad news‚ although the reader is not told‚ it is obvious that Patrick is going to divorce her‚ she react’s as though it never happened. As Patrick told her she sat "watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from him with each word" This is the turning point
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British Literature Hinkley 8 Dec. 2012 Personal Response Jane Austen’s novel‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ is a great representation of how life in the 1800s would have been. Placement in society played a major role and most of her characters only did what society permitted them to do. The people who you were surrounded around either broke you or made you an influence on the town. The women seemed to look only for someone to marry them‚ not for someone to love them. The women in this novel‚ searched
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Would you answer a call from a stranger at four in the morning? What if that stranger told you that you were african royalty? Peggielene Bartels became a U.S. citizen and a secretary at the Ghanaian Embassy in Washington. She’s the most unlikely person to get a phone call at four in the morning from an uncle she never met‚ telling her that she is now the king of Otuam‚ a fishing village in Ghana. She has to adjust to a whole new lifestyle while mixing both cultures to improve Otuam and maintain her
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Residents of Rose Town Report Poison Pen Letter Noname April 1st 2000 Rose Town Star Investigator ROSE TOWN-Three days ago‚ an elderly woman was accused for her brutal actions; she will be facing two charges- libel and violation of the right to privacy. The accused‚ Ms.Strangeworth‚ a seventy-one year old resident of Pleasant Street‚ poison-pen lettered most of the families of the town which caused emotional harm to them. Poison pen letters have bothered the whole entire township for many years
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Movie Review: Sense and Sensibility Ang Lee‚ who directed‚ and Emma Thompson‚ who adapted the screenplay‚ have done an excellent job of bringing Jane Austen’s Victorian novel‚ Sense and Sensibility‚ to the movie screen. The movie’s collection of actors are a joy to watch as they bring out the emotions of an otherwise polite and reserved era in time. The production work is top notch with bright‚ cascading photography that sets a romantic "I wish I was there" setting. The purpose of the Sense
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