Jamaica Kincaid- Girl The poem "Girl" by author Jamaica Kincaid shows love and family togetherness by creating microcosmic images of the way mothers raise their children in order to survive. Upon closer examination‚ the reader sees that the text is a string of images in Westerner Caribbean family practices. Jamaica Kincaid has taken common advice that daughters are constantly hearing from their mothers and tied them into a series of commands that a mother uses to prevent her daughter from
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by using this parallelism in this passage only in paragraph three he demonstrates addition to the strong emotion in paragraph three. This difference reinforces Douglass’s rhetorical analysis. The use of an apostrophe as one of his stylistic elements also rhetorical questions and exclamatory sentences to reinforce his rhetorical purpose in this passage. He uses in total nine exclamation marks only in paragraph three. This is due to his emotion and feelings that is displayed through that paragraph
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The author’s main purpose The subject is interesting to the audience because Alice is an important person in the writer’s life‚ and she describes how Alice has changed her life. This essay makes the reader‚ think about a person that has positively changed their life. The writer should add more description about the senses is highlighted in the essay. The writer should describe what the chocolate dipped pretzels taste like‚ smell‚ and feel like. Describe Alice’s appearance‚ and describe what she
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In both poems Tennyson and Komunyakaa both address their individual experiences in war.Tennyson reflects on the war by expressing his lack of interest of being in the war.While‚ Komunyakaa reminisces on the lost he experiences during the war. Tennyson structures his poem to show his feelings of being in the war and the pride he took in the men he fought with in the war based on how they risked their lives‚he also uses repetition to emphasize the courage and honor they had.Komunyakaa reveals on the
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In This I Believe‚ by Jeffrey‚ covers what afterlife is in this perspective. This is what he believe;things change but you have to be the change. To begininng in This I Believe it uses a horrify lead. The author uses words like dismantled‚ ruined‚ and vital. This lead is so exhilarating that it made me as a reader continue his writing. He uses precise vocabulary to make his point clear and real life examples to show what will never change‚ but what is everlasting. He uses tone to make the reader
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The two authors and their texts are “if” by rudyard kipling and “girl” by jamaica kincaid. In these texts the children are taking parental advice from the parent of the story. Difference A difference these two stories have is they are about different Genders. In the story “if” is about a boy I know this because in the text it says “you’ll be a man my son” this means he is a boy because son means boy. Also ‘girl” is about a girl I know this because the title is girl so that gives me a good feeling
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try to be overprotective of their child(ren) can secretly be driving their kid(s) away. In the poem Girl By Jamaica Kincaid‚ and the novel Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel chapters 1 and 2‚ both speak on a girl being raised by their mothers who are shaped to be very dictative‚ and controlling. Jamaica Kincaid and Laura Esquivel are women from two different countries‚ Kincaid originating from the Caribbean Antigua and‚ Esquivel from Mexico share similarities in their Literatures they published
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In my opinion this song ``What is Love`` by the Black eyed peas‚ refers to people at war whether it is the World War 1‚ or a war on a smaller scale‚ in metaphor with themselves or the other issues that are current in the world. This song refers to the fight against racism‚ it talks about how kids are getting involved and caught up in issues that should be avoided. The song talks a little bit about how we are worrying about problems that are occurring in other countries rather than fixing the situation
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As one of the only powerful female monarchs in English history‚ Queen Elizabeth must have been wary of her words. In this specific speech‚ she attempts to bolster the military morale by providing a profound speech to ensure the success of repelling the Spanish Armada. Her use of various sentences‚ pathos‚ and parallelism itself‚ convinces the listener that victory is inevitable. Queen Elizabeth successfully reinforced the military morale through the variety of sentences applied while providing
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44th president‚ Barack Obama‚ in his 2009 Inaugural Address‚ discusses the economic decline within America. Obama’s purpose is to be rid of the economic decline of America while remaining true to America’s roots. He adopts a determined tone in order to inspire the Nation by appealing to the Nation’s history‚ struggles‚ and duties as U.S. citizens. Obama begins his address by paying oath to previous generations before him. He appeals to the audience by making references to the past narrating that
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