Evans‚ Erika English 101 Definition Essay February 1‚ 2011 My Word In today’s time our vocabularies have widened greatly. Using different languages or missing words are not uncommon. Many different places use various slang terms in conversation. Janky is a term that originated from a Truett McConnell student. It has many definitions and can be used in various forms. It was created as a universal meaning for many different sayings or emotions. Many words in our language today have been made
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own life. Suspense This chapter creates a very deep suspense through the actions of George Wilson. Fitzgerald cultivates this suspense for the climax of the novel by describing George’s actions with little detail‚ describing them as if we are being told by a police report. He skirts what actually occurred‚ instead describing the setting in vivid detail. He mentions the “…cluster of leave…”(pg 170) that are in the pool foreshadowing Gatsby’s fate by having the leaves represent the end of the season
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inserting those metaphors between sentences that contrast what she desires to keep her emotions hidden. In between describing herself taking care of the children‚ Bradshaw states “Dare to grasp a pen”(22). She sarcastically contrasts taking care of the children which is a hard task to an easy task such as writing. Bradshaw shows her emotions with the thought of women can do anything by describing how women are already raising the children which is more than hard work to doing trivial stuff such as writing
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Innocence * Smelling good * Corruption of love O Rose thou art sick * Starting with”o” * Calling and addressing someone or something * Praying * Pity * Having mercy * Apostrope * Describing the situation * One of the character is Rose in the poem The invisible worm * Invisible worm * Young insect (insidious) * Loose cannon on rolling deck * Emotions are high and overated * Something harmful
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the inescapable landscape‚ where Dr. Roylott’s house stood. The grey roof was a visual that depicts feelings of gloomy sadness. Describing the layout of Stoke Moran as having two curving wings like the claws of a crab compared Dr. Roylott’s personality. The comparison with Dr. Roylott’s personality comes from Miss Stoner’s fear of him. This fear is visually told by describing the color of Miss Stoner’s lips turning white at the sound of hearing Dr. Roylott’s name. Furthermore‚ Miss Stoner comments Roylott
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difficult the little bird keeps singing a really inspiring tune. The bird is subjected to gales‚ storms‚ cold lands and strange places but it keeps singing it’s hopeful tune. The poem is an extended metaphor describing
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In "Once More to the Lake’ the author starts his narration out immeidaely by describing his vacations to maine every august when he was a child. He describes it at first as his favorite place growing up‚ giving us his point of view. He uses his view on sea life to describe how dreadful it can be with unforgiving tides and cold temperatures. His narration of his days as a child ‚ lead the reader to understand why he moved by the sea. His discrption on how relentess sea life can be‚ give the reader
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poverty. Straight away the opening line sets the scene and immediately gives us an image of the place and just how depressing the atmosphere is ; “a mean wind wanders…” Here Morgan uses alliteration and personification in describing the wind. He uses the word “mean” in describing the wind‚ we then imagine the wind having a strong‚ loud sound as it “wanders”. The word “wanders” suggests the wind is moving at a slow pace and entering loads of small places around the place. This gives us a start on what
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hospital. The speaker of the poem‚ Whitman himself‚ depicts the eerie scene of a medical tent during the civil war. The speaker wakes up to the haze of ‘daybreak’ and encounters 3 unattended dead bodies of 3 dead soldiers. Whitman goes into detail describing the faces of the fallen soldiers. Constantly asking himself “who” the men really are. With the use of his diction and other literary devices (i.e. figurative language and allusions)‚ Whitman uses his writing of this poem as a thank you and tribute
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based documentation of the slave trade‚ this can make the reader feel disconnected from the people she is describing. While Equiano takes a more story driven route‚ making the reader feel as though they experienced it themselves. Equiano’s narrative cannot give full description about what the slave trade’s effect was on a grand scale. However‚ Stephanie Smallwood does just that in describing in detail not just how the slave trade affected the slaves themselves but also how it affected the Africa
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