perfectly with his descriptions. The illustration of the midwest‚ using imagery‚ brings the reader to feel as if they actually lived in Kansas in the late 1950’s. Capote’s use of diction creates a suspenseful‚ contradictory mood. These two rhetorical devices create contradiction‚ leading the reader in two directions simultaneously. “The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas‚ a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.” Some seventy miles east of the Colorado
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train and by the lady in the yellow water proof coat. In this short excerpt from the story the author begins each paragraph with “And” making the transition from paragraph to paragraph a bit robotic‚ choppy and simple and is an example of a rhetorical device called anaphora. The author’s words choice
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Chinua Achebe uses many techniques in Things Fall Apart‚ such as foreshadowing. Ikemefuna‚ who was murdered in the book‚ was referred as an “ill-fated boy” a few chapters before he died. This shows that Ikemefuna was going to die‚ and it already makes the readers wonder what is going to happen to Ikemefuma. Also‚ Obierka tells Okonkwo that when the missionaries come he should kill himself‚ and in the end of the book Okonkwo hangs himself. Use of flashback is a huge technique used; in chapter 16
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“A Dream Within a Dream” by Edgar Allen Poe caught my eye because it reminded me of the matrix. In the poem‚ Poe’s speaker is flung into a mental war with himself‚ questioning his own existence and the deeper meanings of life. Poe begins his poem by telling an anecdote about a conversation he had with his lover. In the conversation‚ he is departing from his love‚ but says to her that she is not wrong to think that everything which we know is “but a dream within a dream” (11). This raises a very interesting
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ROMANTIC PERIOD The Chancel and Crossing of Tintern Abbey‚ Looking Towards the East Window‚ by JMW Turner‚ 1794. NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD Aeneas Tells Dido the Misfortunes of the Trojan City BY Pierre-Narcisse Guerin MODERN PERIOD BY Pablo Picasso BAROQUE PERIOD Bacchanal before a Statue of Pan by NICOLAS POUSSIN ROMANTIC PERIOD Fishermen at Sea‚ by JMW Turner‚ NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD Andromache Mourning Over the Body of Hector JACQUES LOUIS DAVID
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Brent Staples uses vivid language and rhetorical devices to express and convey the elements of fear‚ anger‚ and violence. We all make many decisions based on past experiences. That’s how we learn to avoid touching a hot stove burner for example. It’s also about how we learn to do things that bring us pleasure. So we all develop discriminating behavior‚ but when that discrimination is based purely on the color on that person’s skin‚ or his ethnicity‚ without knowing anything else about that person
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purpose to inform the nation on how African-americans should be granted the same freedom with no violence. This speech was presented in front of 250‚000 people‚ mainly those who were for King’s cause. While listening to this speech the main rhetorical device‚ metaphor‚ is presented. He used metaphor when he referred to drinking to together as white and black‚ he said “ “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred”‚ King meant that we can’t
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Patrick Edward Connor commanded the Stockton Blues of the California Militia at the outbreak of the Civil War. He quickly recruited the Blues to regimental strength and was appointed colonel‚ 4 September 1861. The regiment and two companies of the 2d California Cavalry were immediately ordered to Utah Territory to protect the Overland Stage and Pacific Telegraph rights of way‚ and to act as a force of observation in order to forestall any joint activity between Mormon recalcitrants and Southern sympathizers
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Obviously reading about Patrick Henry is like a flash back to the revolution era. His Speeches are one of the best in America because Patrick Henry motivates the people of Virginia to fight for liberty. That speech made him famous and nowadays he is in the History books . Truly‚ Patrick Henry is one of the greatest American authors because of his writing style and affect on history . “He spoke without any notes in a voice that became louder and louder‚ climaxing with the now famous
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1. St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography. By Philip Freeman. New York: Simon and Schuster‚ 2004. pp 240.‚ $11.23 Kindle. In his book‚ St. Patrick of Ireland‚ Philip Freeman is presenting his case for the missionary life of St. Patrick. He undertakes to draw from Patrick’s words‚ his two letters‚ as well as those of medieval‚ Celtic‚ British and other such publications. Freeman is trying to give his readers a vivid image of what life would have been like during the latter part of the fourth
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