DIDLS Breakdown DIDLS Diction‚ Imagery‚ Details‚ Language‚ and Syntax Use diction to find tone. Use imagery‚ details‚ language and syntax to support tone. TONE Author’s attitude toward the subject‚ toward himself‚ or toward the audience. DICTION Adjectives‚ nouns‚ verbs‚ adverbs‚ negative words‚ positive words‚ synonyms‚ contrast. Look at the words that jump out at you - Evaluate only those words to find tone Also look at: Colloquial (Slang) Old-Fashioned Informal (Conversational)
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O.L. #3B Question #1 is worth 5 points – all others are worth 1 point each. Either type your answers directly onto THIS sheet OR create a new file and number your answers 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ etc. 1. The following "gem" comes from the business world and as you can see is filled with redundant‚ empty‚ wordy‚ AND unnecessary phrases. Re-write it so that the ideas are expressed in a much clearer and more stylistic way. To: District Managers From: Margaret Davenport‚ Vice
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_____________________________________________ Course and Section:______________________ Schedule: _____________________________ Date: ______________ Score: ___ I. Underline the independent clause and double underline the dependent clause in each given sentence. (20 pts.) I finished reading the book that you loaned me. Our trip to Holland ended with a visit to the town where my parents were born. Before the day was over‚ I made plans to see Ed. Because it was
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Primary Source Analysis: The Act of Supremacy 1534 The primary source I chose to research is The Act of Supremacy (1534). This was an act passed by the English Parliament establishing the English monarch‚ which at the time was Henry Tudor VIII‚ as the head of state and religious head of the Church of England. Although there is always some glamorization in the writing and depiction of historically based movies‚ I enjoyed both “The Other Boleyn Girl” and the cable series “The Tudors”. I found
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Matteo Pradella (DEI‚ PoliMi) Principles of Programming Languages‚ 3 May 2012 2 / 54 Introduction to Prolog Created around 1972 by Alain Colmerauer with Philippe Roussel‚ based on Robert Kowalski’s procedural interpretation of Horn clauses. decidable subset: Datalog‚ a query and rule language for deductive databases its failure as a mainstream language traditionally due to the following: Prolog usage in Fifth Generation Computer Systems project (FGCS) FCGS was an initiative by Japan’s
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Commerce and the Court: How and Why to Define the Commerce Issue Commerce has been part of our nation since we founded it. To every farmer‚ commerce was important so that the food they grew would not spoil on waiting for transport. However‚ as the nation grew‚ our definition of commerce has changed many times. Debates over whether Congress had powers to control commerce sparked further debate on if the Courts had the right to define commerce. Every debated‚ including this one‚ has two sides
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Contract Performance Joseph Dorow Strayer University BUS 501 Government Acquisition Instructor: Dr. Vic Villarreal December 2012 Contract Performance Summarize the report‚ with particular attention to the issue of contract performance. I chose the report with a Lancer Clothing Corporation protest alleging “Workroom for designers does not have a commitment for the lining material supplier who is reputable‚ and that it lacks sufficient production capacity. Lancer also alleges that the principal
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Compare and contrast Malcolm X‚ David Walker‚ and Booker T Washington I would like to thank my entire group members and Professor Donaldson whose comments and suggestions had been very helpful to improve the quality of this final paper. I have tried for the best of my ability to incorporate in this final version‚ all their great ideas about the format and the content of the documents. Professor Donaldson suggested “I am going to suggest that you do a little reorganizing. First of all‚ you should
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Historians have often divided the life of Malcolm X‚ also referred to as El-Hajj Malik Shabazz‚ into 3 periods. First‚ from 1948 to 1964‚ he was established in the Nation of Islam. Then‚ in 1964‚ he went through the Black Nationalist Period of his life. Lastly‚ prior to his assassination‚ from 1964 to 1965‚ Malcolm X evolved through the Universalist Islamic Period. I‚ however‚ have chosen to divide his life into two major periods from which his most poignant ideologies were formed. He demonstrated
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MWEEK-5 HOME WORK ASSIGNMENT Malcolm X--Myth and Truthfulness Civil Rights Activist‚ Malcolm X was born as Malcolm Little on May 19‚ 1925 in Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ the fourth of eight children born to Louise and Earl Little. Louise was a homemaker and Earl was a preacher who was also an active member of the local chapter of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and avid supporter of the Black Nationalist leader”. (Marcus Garvey). Because of Earl Little ’s civil rights activism‚ the family faced
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