Name: Date: 4/16/2015 Graded Assignment Unit Test: Modern Fiction and Nonfiction Answer the following questions in complete sentences. You must complete it by the due date to receive full credit on this test. (15 points) 1. Do you think that attending the concert in "A Wagner Matinee" is a positive experience for Aunt Georgiana? Why or why not? Be sure to include specific details from the story in your response. Answer: Yes. The defining aspect of Georgiana’s personality‚ however‚ is never in
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GENRE: New Journalism & Creative non-fiction Definitions from The Free Dictionary: New Journalism “Journalism that is characterized by the reporter’s subjective interpretations and often features fictional dramatized elements to emphasize personal involvement.” “A style of journalism originating in the US in the 1960s‚ which uses techniques borrowed from fiction to portray a situation or event as vividly as possible.” Creative non-fiction For a text to be considered creative nonfiction
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LIFE IN YAKVILLE Life is full of adventure. The most memorable moments in life can be the most sweet or the most bitter‚ depending on how we respond. Memorable moments can energize us or discourage us. I believe that I have more reasons to thank God for giving me colorful experiences and helping me to take difficult situations to encourage myself. Whenever I remember those moments I always like to encourage myself not to lose hope even in the darkest moments of life. One of my darkest moments
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Fiction Book Report Peg Kehret Runaway Twin Thirteen year-old Sunny Skyland is a foster child who has been through many foster homes. Life with Rita‚ her new foster mother‚ is perfect‚ except for Rita’s rules of only healthy food. Even so‚ Sunny loves her life with Rita and doesn’t want anything to change. But there is only one problem. Starr‚ Sunny’s long lost twin. Sunny had a picture from when she was a kid‚ and there is another child‚ who she finds out is her twin. Sunny is desperate
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Reading Log: Where Football is King Part I: 9-54 The book Where Football is King by Christopher Walsh is about the history of arguably the greatest collegiate conference in all of sports; the SEC. At the beginning‚ it talks about how the SEC got started‚ the original teams‚ coaches and early memorable games. For instance‚ when Georgia Tech was still in the SEC‚ they beat Cumberland College 220-0. As time went on and football started to spread across the country‚ teams started to branch
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Fiction Books Reading fiction is fun and also necessary. It opens your mind to a new place where everything is different from your daily routine. Fiction books can actually make you feel like you already lived that situation‚ like you felt the good and the bad‚ the sorrow‚ the happiness‚ the people and places. It makes you fly away from your stressing routine and get into a magic world. An example of a series of fiction books is Harry Potter‚ written by J.K Rowling. It is a series of seven fantasy
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April 22nd‚ 2013 Rhetorical Analysis “It’s become a sad rite of passage in many American communities‚ the services held for teenagers killed in auto accidents before they’ve even scored a tassel to hang from the rearview mirror.” Anna Quindlen wrote the article‚ “Driving to the Funeral‚” in the June 11‚ 2007 issue of Newsweek to make parents think twice before allowing their 16-year-old drive the car. Anna discusses issue on how too often teens are killed in car accidents‚ and why something
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CJ Baker Becoming a Humorous Non Fiction Writer Erma Bombeck was an ordinary woman (by her own admission) but could put out a great one liner. “When I stand before God at the end of my life‚ I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left‚ and could say‚ ‘I used everything you gave me.’” She started implementing her skill for words while in junior high‚ high school‚ and college by writing for the school newsletters and graduated to writing a humorous column for her local newspaper
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The Overall Stylistic Analysis of Non-Fiction Discourse. The publicistic style belongs to the formal variety of English. It is “the language of mass communication which is used not only to inform but also to convince and persuade‚ i.e. its functions are referential‚ conative and‚ to some degree‚ poetical”. [1:89] The general aim of publicistic style is to exert influence on public opinion through logical argumentation and emotional appeal. Logical argumentation is provided by coherent and logical
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kKayla Williams Book Report 19 November 2012 CD 225 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Christopher is very gifted‚ but has Asperger’s syndrome. The novel begins with Christopher finding his neighbor’s dog dead in the front yard. He picks the dog up because he feels bad that it has died‚ but his neighbor‚ Mrs. Shear‚ comes out and believes that he just killed her dog. She immediately calls the police. When the police get to the scene they question Christopher‚ but they struggle
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