"A Clean‚ Well Lighted Place" Although tone is an extremely complicated issue to analyze‚ it is one of the most elementary literary elements. Like a tone of voice‚ the tone of a story may communicate joy‚ anger‚ love‚ sorrow‚ and contempt. It shows the feelings of the author‚ so greatly that we can sense them. The tone adds to the overall feeling‚ and effectiveness portrayed in any literary work. Those feelings may be similar to the feelings expressed by the narrator of the story‚ but sometimes
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Audience Purpose and Tone Three possible entry points into assessing an essay—and important considerations for writers as well—are the identification of the essay’s audience‚ purpose and tone. “Audience” refers to the readership the writer is writing for—as best we can tell from reading it ourselves. An essay’s intended audience could be the entire world‚ or the entire English-reading population‚ or everyone in the United States‚ or readers of the Washington Post newspaper. It could be
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Symbolism‚ Tone and Mood: An Overview and Review What is a symbol? • A symbol is an ordinary object‚ event‚ person‚ animal‚ or color to which we have attached a special meaning and significance. • So‚ symbolism is simply the act of attaching inner meaning to outward things. So what is Literary Symbolism? • When the author uses an object or reference to add deeper meaning to a story. • Can be subtle or obvious‚ used sparingly or heavy‐ handedly. • An author may repeatedly use the same object to convey
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subject is the definition of the term “tone.” Tone can be expressed through a certain choice of words‚ also through choice of syntax and diction. Furthermore‚ tone affects how a reader reads literature by influencing emotions and creating mood. Using such specific words can help readers understand more about certain traits and their temperaments. When it comes to different translations of a piece of literature‚ each translator’s own bias may affect the tone. In other words‚ their bias possibly will
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Blood Brother Performance Essay On the 14TH June 2012‚ we watched Blood Brothers‚ by Willy Russell‚ at the Phoenix Theatre. The play ‘Blood Brothers’ is set in 1980s Britain; it deals with numerous themes such as fate‚ the class system‚ insanity‚ superstition and division. The genres of the play are drama‚ tragedy & comedy-to an extent. Something I found particularly interesting was how the genre of comedy became less and less apparent as the play went on‚ whereas the genre of tragedy- became
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Guidelines for RC Tones Very often‚ in entrance exams like CAT‚ there are questions in Reading Comprehension based on the "style" of the passage. Such questions can appear in various forms. Some of the forms of such questions are: 1. "Which of the following best describes the tone of the passage?" 2. "The tone of the passage is….... " 3. "The author’s approach/tone/style of writing in this passage can be termed/described as....." Such questions should not be attempted unless you have
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she was imprisoned. A major part of this film was the use of handheld camera. Filming from a handheld camera really portrayed the chaos in scenes such as the hostage situation in the news building. The tone of the movie is clearly set by means of loud orchestral music and soft frightening tones and sounds. V’s theme song throughout the whole movie is a loud‚ motivating orchestral ensemble that drives home the utter insanity within his mind. While V is leading a revolution against the government
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The Crucible Tone Paper In Arthur Miller’s book/play The Crucible‚ the tone he adopts towards the subject of witch trials and witch hunts‚ and towards the characters that maintain them‚ is carefully written. His ironic and cynical tones throughout the play poke fun at the religious officials doing what they thought was right‚ executing people they thought were witches. They also further the outlook on the lack of justice in a harsh‚ Puritan society. Miller continually uses irony in situations
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peace and joy while masking its more menacing underlying tone. While Ralph blew the conch shell‚ "his face was dark with the violent pleasure of making this stupendous noise‚ and his heart was making the stretched shirt shake" (16). Golding’s use of imagery here reveals Ralph’s joy and excitement at blowing the conch‚ but also describes his pleasure as "violent"‚ possibly hinting at a future darkness. Golding also employs diction to set the tone when he mentions the twins‚ Sam and Eric: "They breathed
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Cold War Historiography: New Evidence Behind Traditional Typographies Timothy J. White For Americans and many in the world‚ the Cold War dominated international relations from 1945-1991. Only the nuclear balance of terror prevented this uneasy peace from becoming all out war‚ and few if any events could be understood outside of the context of this bipolar rivalry. As the Cold War came to an end‚ some thought we had witnessed "an end to history."(1) Instead‚ we have witnessed a fundamental change
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