Essay Response Virginia Woolf spent many of her childhood summers in a seaside village in Cornwall‚ England. In an excerpt from her memoirs from her childhood summers‚ Woolf reminisces on fishing trips with her father and her brother. Woolf utilizes language in order to convey the lasting significance by using punctuation‚ diction‚ and choppy phrases Woolf uses punctuation in several different ways‚ but she was especially effective at using it to convey her enthusiasm. Near the end of the first
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Objective Reading Response In the reading ‘2b or not 2b’’‚ there are figurative devices that can be identified as used by the author. Metaphor; the metaphors found in the passage is used to make a compare the text messages to’ bleak‚ bald sad shorthand‚ Drab shrink talk.’ The comparison continues ‘Texting is penmanship for illiterates’. Another comparisons without the use of the terms ‘as’ or ‘like’ with unlike things that in this case seems to have similar characteristics‚ was
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Matt Cooper Alyssia Ashkevron ENGL 111-37D 10 June 2014 Response: White’s 5 Paragraph Theme Theme This short paper will be in response to my reading of Edward White’s “5 Paragraph Theme Theme” essay. The following paragraphs will illustrate my opinion of White’s idea‚ if I think it is an effective means of writing a paper‚ and if I believe it should be the way all papers‚ essays‚ and reports are written. Lastly I will finish up with an overview of what I have discussed. I believe this paper
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Nearly everything in life eventually comes to and end. Seamus Heaney depicts this advancement of time in "Blackberry Picking" by combining both pleasing and harsh words to describe the blackberries at the time they ere picked and at a later date. The poem begins with a straightforward description of the act of the blackberries maturing. "Late August‚ given heavy rain and sun/ For a full week‚ the blackberries would ripen" (ll 1-2). These opening lines set a mood of peacefulness and tranquility which
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The poem does not rhyme but the poet has used repetition to slow the poem down and make the reader feel the heaviness of heart that the poet feels. The poet uses similes and metaphors throughout the poem for example when he says ‘I have learned to wear many faces like dresses’ implying different expressions for different occasions. The poet has used a very strong metaphor when he writes that his laugh in the mirror is ‘like a snakes bare fangs’. A snake is commonly used in mythology and fairy tales
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Bhatt The poem ’A different History’‚ written by Sujata Bhatt is written post the British colonisation of India. The poem is based on Indian religion and a bit of Greek mythology. The poem talks about different cultures‚ mainly Indian and the colonisation of India. As Bhatt has experienced three different cultures; the Indian culture‚ the American culture and the German culture‚ the poem reflects on the differences in cultures and delves into mainly the Indian culture. The poem explores how the
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Constantly risking absurdity The poem “Constantly Risking Absurdity” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a poem where he compares a poem to an acrobat.He starts off by describing how an acrobat risks everything even his life to his audience by walking in a high wire of his own making.What Ferlinghetti means is that an acrobat does everything he can including his most precious values mental and physical to entertain and amaze his audience. He doesn`t care if he makes a fool of himself o even kill himself
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relationships can’t be guaranteed permanent now a days. Kim Addonizio chooses tattoos as a symbol in this poem “First poem for you.” Water and lightning is what makes the poem most symbolistic. “Lines of lightning pulsing just above your nipple can find as if by instinct the blue swirls of water on your shoulder where a serpent twists facing a dragon.” Though symbols can have more than one meaning to them the poem helps to point of the specific meaning of these symbols. The girlfriend of the guy with tattoos
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Poe gushes over her beauty and Doolittle demonizes her for "past ills". In the Edgar Allan Poe poem the speaker is an admirer of Helen who is professing his love. His tone is one of wonder at her perfection and beauty. With Poe’s diction you can imagine Helen’s majestic beauty. He describes very aptly the "face that launched a thousand ships". The author uses imagery effectively throughout the poem‚ for example‚ those Nicean barks of yore/ That gently‚ o’er a perfumed sea". The mental picture of
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War of the world’s response essay. During the War of the Worlds broadcast‚ the sound producers had the tough task of making sounds‚ including an alien ship opening‚ sound authentic. They came up with very good sound effects‚ like putting a jar in the toilet and opening and closing the lid. Also‚ the writers had to figure out how to make it sound believable and captivate audiences. They did this by strategically placed silences after some tragedy happened‚ ending all sound to simulate lost signal
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