In the novel‚ “The Grapes of Wrath‚” John Steinbeck shows a variety of rhetorical strategies and devices in the first fourteen chapters‚ such as‚ symbolism‚ diction and personification to help the reader be more intrigued. Through out the entire novel symbolism allowed Steinbeck to continue to tell the narrative of Tom Joad on the surface‚ while underlying‚ more depth social ideas about the time period. In chapter four‚ when Tom Joad was walking toward his childhood home to look for his family
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Grayce Byrnes Mr. Smith AP English 11-Period A 24 September 2012 The Passion of Pearl In the novel The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the hardships of a young girl named Hester forced to live with the letter A pinned to her chest in penitence for her sins in a strict Puritan town in the 1800s. The illegitimate daughter of Hester carries the same traits and qualities as Hester‚ making Pearl a double of Hester. Hawthorne defines Pearl with his use of abstract diction‚ whimsical
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The short story “Young Goodman Brown”‚ published in 1835 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a tale of innocence and evil. This piece of literature consists of several different rhetorical strategies. The author utilizes symbolism in order to create depth and save a spot for his work in high culture. He writes about delicate ribbons‚ a serpentine staff and an eerie forest as he pushes the narrative that the spiritual population is quite corrupt. Faith dawns gaiety pink ribbons placed gently in her uniform
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The Nobel Prize winner for literature‚ John Steinbeck‚ in his novel‚ The Grapes of Wrath‚ illustrates the hardships of the migrant farmers as they moved from their homes. Steinbeck’s purpose is to establish how much the Joads and other migrant farmer families struggled during their journey and to . Through the use of personification‚ allusions and symbols‚ Steinbeck successfully gets his message across to his readers. As Uncle John makes his way down to the “boiling stream”‚ he finds a spot
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There is no question that times have changed drastically since the publication of Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845. The largest difference between modern day and the nineteenth century‚ however‚ is the hideous practice of slavery. Obviously today‚ nearly everyone realizes how repugnant the practice of slavery was. During the life of Frederick Douglass‚ though‚ slavery was simply an integral factor in the everyday lives of pre-Civil War American citizens. The
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Professor English 102 12 February 2014 Limitless Commercials are not always just informative‚ some convey a message so strong it leaves you thinking about it when it’s over. Most people could care less about watching commercials and would consider them a waste of time‚ but an opposite handful comes to find them interesting and useful. Many commercials target certain audiences‚ having the ability to draw the viewers in closer and closer wishing that it were never over. The Guinness Basketball
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the reasons why stable steel prices are necessary in America’s times of economic stress. In order to prove the advantages of stable prices and disadvantages of increased prices‚ Kennedy utilizes a mixture of logos‚ ethos‚ and diction as a means of strategies to persuade the audience. Starting from the third paragraph‚ Kennedy provides logos to invoke the part of the audience that desires an answer. He states‚ “If this rise in the cost of steel is imitated by the
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Brutus and Antony both use different rhetorical techniques to persuade the crowd at Julius Caesar’s funeral. However‚ the arguments can be very different and one speech can be more persuasive than the other. Brutus’s and Antony’s speech have a different base on the same topic and both have a valid point in each. Brutus lectures about how Caesar is a courageous person. Antony‚ however‚ discourses about how Caesar is determined and how Brutus transferred captives home to Rome. Antony also speaks about
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Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning Summary Although the collective knowledge in the field of Pedagogy on how readers‚ "actually carry out this interpretive process with college-level expository text is rather limited" (Haas and Flower 167). The study in discussion would like to help the understanding of this constructive‚ rhetorical view of reading. Throughout the article‚ Haas and Flower emphasize how students “are good readers in the traditional sense… yet‚ they
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