1. What is diction? (5 points) an author’s word choice words that are inverted connotation in dialect formal language in poetry 2. Which of the following lines from John Muir’s "The Calypso Borealis" shows an example of dialect? (10 points) "I wish you would write me‚ say once a year‚" I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy. How long I sat beside Calypso I don’t know. "What were ye doin’ there?" 3. Read the following paragraph from John Muir’s "The Calypso Borealis" and
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English Exam Notes Semester 1 2013 Connotation – * personal context meaning * An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning * The implication of such ideas or feelings Denotation – * dictionary meaning * he literal or primary meaning of a word‚ in contrast to the feelings or ideas the word suggests Connotation can be set in 3 different groups; negative‚ neutral and positive‚ depending on the personal reference.
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A logical place to start may be to ask ‘what is news?’ Professor Jonathan Bignell suggests that ‘news is not just facts‚ but representations produced in language and other signs like photographs.’ The newspaper is just one medium of news communication; other media include television‚ radio‚ magazines‚ and the Internet. We will concentrate on a particular news item as covered in three different British daily newspapers‚ namely The Sun‚ The Telegraph‚ and The Times. The story which is being covered
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Poe’s “The Raven” demonstrates that the sorrow the death of a loved one brings will stay with you forever. Poe communicated this theme through abstract language & connotation‚ tone‚ and allusion. I would like to start off by showing how Edgar Allan Poe has communicated this thesis through the use of abstract language and connotation. An abstract phrase repeated throughout the poem is the word ‘nevermore’ combined with different phrases depending on each stanza. This word can have countless meanings
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the one to shoot an Elephant. In the beginning he knew what he had to avoid of being laughed at from the Burmese people that surrounded him‚ since he is an imperial policeman. Throughout the story‚ Orwell uses rhetorical tools such as: metaphors‚ connotation‚ and irony to give his readers a better perspective in what’s going on in the story. Seeing different forms of writing can help readers see the relationship between these tools and what Orwell is saying about imperialism. First of all‚ George Orwell
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styles of poetry in it. When you first start the poem it seems as its going to be gloomy and very bland but picks up its meaning in the 2nd stanza. This poetry response will break down the poem and explain everything about it including the Title‚ Connotation‚ Attitude‚ Shifts‚ and the theme. Starting with the analysis of the title before even reading the poem‚ it seems that whoever is speaking has a love for the sea and cannot let it go. The speaker has a connection with sea; maybe she lost a loved
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Culture in the 1940s was unlike ours today. In the 1940s‚ the music was diverse‚ the fashion was unique‚ and the technology was in contrast with technology today. Everything in the 1940s was very different than it is today. People did not go about things the same way we do. Values in the 1940s was all about segregation‚ women in factories‚ and slang. Segregation was a big part of culture in the 1940s. There was segregation in both sports and war. Jackie Robinson was signed
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English Commentary- Snowy Morning‚ by Henry Shukman. “Snowy Morning” is a melancholy piece about the difficulty and inevitability of saying goodbye to a lifetime of images‚ sensations and the beauty of the world around us. Shukman uses images from childhood to create a sense of nostalgia as well as establishing a paradox between the fear of death and dealing with death in a facetious manner. In addition to this Shukman uses semantic fields dealing with the senses in order to create a more involved
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feels that Glendine‚ the mother‚ doesn’t really care about her child and just lets him stay up watching tv. Since crumpled has somewhat of a negative connotation‚ this is a good word to be used to describe the narrators feelings toward how the mother raises her child. Another word in the passage is shag. Once again this word has a negative connotation. The author could have used the word dirty but instead he used shag. Shag is defined as a carpet or rug with a long rough pile. The author uses this
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“evolution”‚ Susan Power and Sherman Alexie wrote about the tragedy of Native American culture and the sorrowness inside the remaining Indians by using negative connotation and figurative language . The story Museum Indians was written from an Indian girl’s point of view‚ the author used a lot of connotations and figurative languages. The connotations and figurative languages indicated the mother and the little girl’s feeling towards Indian culture and how it got taken away. The
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