In the passage from The Spectator‚ written by Joseph Addison‚ the life of a wealthy British man is satirically documented in a journal. Addison recounts the activities of six full days with the style of a personal journal. The journal entries mock the British upper class‚ this mockery ranges from the lackadaisical lifestyle to the repetitiveness of everyday. Addison created an entertaining work of satire through the use of repetition‚ detail‚ and tone. Throughout the passage Addison uses repetition
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In what follows‚ I will explicate the classic speeches of Shakespeare’s Brutus and Mark Antony (Julius Caesar) in an attempt to demonstrate both the sophistic and argumentative reasoning styles of persuasion. Firstly‚ the speech by Brutus is quick‚ rather simplified and to the point. Brutus suggests that Caesar became ‘ambitious’ and therefore‚ had to be killed. Although his oratory is much-less wordy than that of Antony‚ he does offer a reasoned argument‚ as when he asks‚ “Have you rather Caesar
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II February 1‚ 2012 Funeral Blues Explication In W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues”‚he uses a sort of calm or sorrowful tone. The woman in this poem says‚ “Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚”(1) She is wanting to give respect to the dead. She says to get rid of the noises that may be distracting from the process of mourning. Auden creates a mood or sense of respectfulness. The first stanza is stating to get rid of the regular things that a funeral is about and get on with it
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Erik Rhodes Mr. Clyne Period 2 3/20/13 Great Gatsby Rhetorical Analysis: Social Classes of the 1920s The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of a Golden Age book. Even though it was not written in what one considered the Golden Age‚ it is a book that represents the extravagance in life. The Great Gatsby is full of symbolism that represents what some might refer to as the cast system (a.k.a. – social structure). F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby to highlight the wide abyss between
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“Being for” as Adams understands it is very broad. He tells us that there are many ways you can be for something. Some examples he stated were “loving it‚ liking it‚ respecting it‚ wanting it‚ wishing for it‚ appreciating it‚ thinking highly of it‚ speaking in favor of it‚ and otherwise officially standing for it symbolically‚ acting to promote it or protect it‚ and being disposed to do such things.” (p11). He believes that this reveals the difference between a person’s moral behavior of their
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Desires‚ Decisions‚ and Defiance John Updike’s “A&P” accurately depicts the quintessence of adolescent idealism‚ as the protagonist‚ Sammy‚ undergoes the transition from being an obedient adolescent to an independent adult. Sammy‚ a store clerk‚ witnesses his boss chastising a group of girls who have walked into the store wearing bikinis. Sammy‚ believing this treatment to be unjust and embarrassing‚ quits his job. This impetuous decision leaves Sammy with an ambiguous and foreboding feeling towards
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overreacting in a big way to our fears that we would lose our privacy. He uses a mixture of sentence structure which helps to raise your thought on the subject‚ and then answer the short sentence with an explanation in a longer one. Throughout this essay‚ we see much of Franzen’s sarcastic ways which helps to give a lightened mood to this very serious topic. He made it a point to make a statement that seems to be very true and convincing‚ but he soon after‚ he would add in a sentence that makes you
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My work on Rhetorical Analysis shows my development of the skill recognizing rhetorical aspects in a text. My comfort level with recognizing rhetorical aspects in a text before the assignment was super low due to I am not used to looking closely at the recognizing rhetorical aspects in a text but instead the content of the text. That was clearly shown with the change in direction of my paper from the first draft to my second draft. I moved from looking at the content of the text to recognizing rhetorical
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Brutus was the noblest roman who wanted what was in the best interest for the roman population. Brutus’s tragic flaw was that he was too trusting. He honestly felt that he had to kill Caesar in order to save Rome from tyranny. He trusted Mark Antony not to blame the conspirators in his speech at Caesar’s funeral. Mark Antony broke his promise and got Brutus and the others into deep trouble. Brutus indeed ended up in a position‚ from his own actions‚ that is tragic to the reader. In the play The
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