“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.” -John Ford “Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you‚ say what you’ve got to say‚ and say it hot.” -D. H. Lawrence “Let thy speech be better than silence‚ or be silent.” -Dionysius Of Halicarnassus “What we say is important… for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” -Jim Beggs “If you can’t write your message in a sentence‚ you can’t say it in an hour.”
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Francis Macomber notes on analysis The narrative voice The story is told through an omniscient narrator in third person‚ who is passively observing. Nothing is hidden to the reader‚ revealing this unpleasant atmosphere. Ex. from p. 9: Macomber stepped out of the curved opening at the side of the front seat‚ onto the step and down onto the ground. The lion still stood looking majestically and coolly toward this object that his eyes only showed in silhouette‚ bulking like some super-rhino
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123456789 “Look at what you’ve got and make the best of it. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” “We were taught to respect everyone‚ especially those who were older and wiser than we were from whom we could learn.” “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web‚ we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” “Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Chapter Three Review Complete the following cloze summary by filling in the appropriate word (or words). Chapter three begins with Changez directly addressing the American again. He comments on the American’s ______________ and then describes the way Old Anarkali becomes a pedestrian-only area in the evening. He then says that when he moved to New York‚ it had felt like coming home. He gives several ____________ why he had felt so comfortable. When he was
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In the first part of the scene the author writes in a narrative and descriptive style that can be seen in the quotes used below. In addition to these writing styles‚ the author uses repetition and hypotyposis in this part. The use of repetition can be seen throughout page 240 and 241 as the author repeatedly places time stamps within
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nerves and hated her butting in. In chapter 1‚ Josie complains to her mother; “Maaaa‚ I groaned‚ she drives me crazy. She’s starting to tell me all those boring Sicily stories. If she tells me one more time she was beautiful‚ I’ll puke”. In this quote Marchetta uses tone‚ repetition‚ hyperbole‚ and descriptive language to demonstrate Josie’s attitude and feelings towards Nonna at the beginning of the novel. The repetition of the letter ‘a’ in Ma highlights Josie’s irritation and frustration in her
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Amir. The reader is told that ‘Baba heaved a sigh of impatience.’ Hosseini also portrays the character of Baba through the dialogue of the character of Rahim Khan as he refers to Baba as “Mr. Hurricane.” The narrator often indirectly refers to‚ or quotes‚ the ‘people’ as they ‘urged him to stop his foolishness’ Each perspective has their own opinion which is what makes them so valuable when putting the character of Baba under study. Hosseini presents the character of Baba as having a great physical
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into the world of the novel through narrative perspective‚ tone‚ detailed description and personifying the setting. Bruce Dawes anti-war poem‚ “Weapons training uses a low first person perspective‚ strong tone‚ but also uses rhetorical questions and onomatopoeia to convey the brutality of the war‚ while Day uses descriptive language to convey the characters as well as the action. In both texts we uphold a strong sense of the person behind the distinctive narrative voice. Introduction This resource
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In both ’Victor’ and ’As I Walked Out One Evening’‚ Auden utilise techniques such as the personfication of time to suggest to the reader that life is a journey and it waits for no one. The use of the first person singular in As Iwalked suggests that it is quite a personal experience‚ however‚ in Victor‚ third person is used to distance the narrator for tge events. W.H. Auden’s ’Victor’ includes three different voice through out the poem‚ his dad‚ the narrator and Victor himself. Auden uses Victor’s
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changed‚ we can see this from one of many examples‚ the most prominent is at end of Marlow’s story‚ when he returns to Europe he states that he was “resenting the people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other…”. With this quote we can see that he is disgusted by the civilisation he once was a part of‚ calling them ‘irritating’ & “full of stupid importance”‚ because he believed that they were living so carefree when
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