4. What is the tone of the poem? Throughout the poem‚ Dante’s Divine Comedy‚ the author‚ Dante‚ portrays an emotional tone. Through Dante’s own struggles with sin and the suffering he endured himself‚ we can see him caring for other’s and deeply thinking about human’s moral thoughts. The poem is written in first person and through the poem‚ you see crying and high emotions. Because of Dante’s own struggles‚ he sympathizes with other sinners throughout the poem. Sympathy is another emotion Dante
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In face-to-face communication‚ meaning is conveyed not only through words but also through tone of voice and body language (facial expressions‚ hand gestures‚ etc.). As a result‚ listeners pay more attention to our tone and body language than to our word choices in order to derive additional clues to our meaning. Challenges of Online Communication One of the challenges of communicating online is that we must depend entirely on words to convey meaning. For example‚ we do not have the opportunity
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Tone The tone in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn applied through the literature of Mark Twain is introspective‚ ironic and moralistic. The author has developed a respect for his character‚ Huck‚ yet he surrounds the character with amusing and childish tones. It is rather lighthearted and entertaining to read into the thoughts of young Huckleberry as he attempts to find the moral correctness of aiding the escape of a slave. This is also accompanied with a sardonic tone that allows the audience
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“Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes is about a twenty two year old colored man trying to write a poem for college. In the poem‚ “Theme for English B”‚ Hughes uses straightforward diction and a truthful tone to explain that all humans are the same even though some are more privileged than others. First off‚ he writes what his instructor’s students were supposed to do. “‘Go home and write/ a page tonight./ And let that page come out of you-/ Then‚ it will be true’” (2-5). Langston does let the
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The tone of each poem differed amongst each other. “To the Virgins‚ to Make Much of Time” has a pessimistic tone. The speaker is giving advice to all young women‚ but he also conveys his opinion about a declining quality of life; “But being spent‚ the worse‚ and worst/ Times still succeed the former.” He states that as time passes‚ life becomes worse than it was before. The images of the poem also help to create this tone‚ such as the image of the dying flower‚ on lines 3 and
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closing remarks‚ show the shift in tone from unfolding and prideful to weary and accepting‚ which transcends throughout the story. Creon’s use of literary devices effectively illustrates his tone shift between these fore-mentioned speeches‚ dramatically showing his tragic hero status. During Creon’s state of the union speech‚ he is trying to show his authority as the new King of Thebes by using an imperial and almighty tone. Syntax plays a role in creating the tone of this selection through the use
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this poem the tone of the speaker is characterized by the deep devotion and love he felt towards his father during his youth. Looking back on the time his father spent playing with him when he was a child‚ the speaker describes “[hanging] on like death” and “clinging to [his] shirt” (Roethke 3‚16). These childlike descriptions show that the speaker felt a deep devotion to his father and had a loving relationship with him. The terms “hanging on” and “clinging” both signify the tone of loving dependence
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but how does one get these specific concepts? By timbre (tone color). Through the concepts of voice classification‚ instrument families and members‚ and ensemble type you can get a multitude of tone colors. With each tone color comes up a different idea. Timbre: otherwise known as “tone color”‚ is the quality of music that identifies a specific instruments sound. Different instruments differentiate by variety/contrast of “color. These tones can be described as mellow‚ bright‚ rustic‚ dark‚ and in
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Describe (not just define!) the functional unit called a motor unit. Explain the relationship between motor unit size in finely vs. coarsely controlled muscles. Explain how motor units act to establish muscle tone. What are the functions of muscle tone? Motor Unit- One motor neuron and all the muscles it innervates. Each muscle will respond to one motor nerve which contains axons that can have up to 100’s of neurons that branch into terminals that form NMJ with ONE fiber. When a motor neuron sends
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Matthew Arnold’s use of diction and imagery reveal the overall pessimistic tone of the poem. The use of diction brings the reader toward two separate tones‚ yet they uniquely contribute to general feeling of pessimism that Matthew Arnold portrays. In the first stanza‚ the "calm" sea brings a feeling of peacefulness. Since it is not turbulent‚ but rather serene and still‚ the calmness of the sea evokes feelings of harmony. This tone is set to show the value and possibilities of a peaceful life‚ portrayed
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