Another example is: "Gas! Gas! Quick boys!" This is from the second stanza from Dulce et Decorum Est as it shows a change of tone from the first stanza from the poem. The tone from the first stanza was a slow low tone‚ however‚ in the second stanza the tone tends to quicken towards a high tone with the use of repititions on the word "Gas!" and the use of exclamation marks to signify a sense of sudden danger‚ terror‚ urgency and panic. The third example is:
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Readers are introduced to a cyclist‚ who seems to enjoy exploring around with his bicycle‚ however after one adventure‚ things take a rocky turn. Author‚ Joe Kurmaskie‚ starts of his passage‚ Rough Road Ahead: Do Not Exceed Posted Speed Limit‚ However‚ he follows it up by changing up the saying‚ "Never accept travel advice from a collection of old-timers who haven’t left the confines of their porches since Carter was in office" (Kurmaskie)‚ giving the readers a feel that the story will be about traveling
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"A Rose for Emily" is one of Faulkner’s most controversial stories. In this short story‚ the main character Emily Grierson shuts herself away and is aided by townspeople in not following the rules of our society. When she dies‚ the reader and townspeople discover that many years ago‚ she killed her love and has slept with his corpse every night. In this way‚ acceding to critic Peter Swiggart‚ this setting "serves as a vehicle for moral and social commentary‚ enabling Faulkner to explain the South’s
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Anne Sexton’s poem titled “Her Kind” is a popular poem filled with powerful imagery‚ diction‚ and syntax. Her particular use of these elements in different ways contributes to the robotic and non-human tone of the poem. Her use of syntax in the poem is done in a very clever manner. The lines of the poem are short and almost all contain commas. These commas are a part of the syntax because they contribute to the sentence structure. They split up each line into two halves‚ and it almost
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Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”‚ published in 2006‚ is a dystopian novel that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. The story is about a Father and a son traveling down a road in a futuristic world where it is almost unrecognizable. There is little life present and those who are alive will do anything to survive. The father and son are referred to as the man and the boy. McCarthy’s style of writing also is unique. Throughout the story‚ McCarthy does not used quotation marks to separate the fact that
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*Analysis of “Araby*” by James Joyce The tone of “Araby” significantly contributes to the main character’s eventual self-discovery. The author uses tone in the beginning of the story to show the intensity of the main character’s feelings for a girl. The author uses phrases such as “we watched her”‚ “her dress swung as she moved her body”‚ and “her hair tossed from side to side”(646). These phrases show the main character’s immense obsession with the one thing in the neighborhood that seemed unmarred
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lines eleven and twelve when he says "And may there be no sadness of farewell / When I embark;" you could tell that the speaker was accepting his death‚ and did not want anyone to be saddened by him leaving. The tone of this poem is sad since the speaker is dying‚ but it is also a calm tone since the speaker is accepting his death‚ and moving on. The speaker had no regrets that he spoke of‚ and knew that his journey was about to end on Earth. In the poem the word bourne was used (13) which meant
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All the world’s a canvas‚ and all the men and women merely the colors; They have their debuts and their disappearances into the background‚ and red in its time takes on many jobs; the coloration of a red sunrise of a wartime morning‚ and then the crimson blood of wounded soldiers bearing arms against brothers‚ and the last scene of all‚ that ends this strange eventful history‚ is scarlet dusk bathing the war-torn battlefield as it dips beyond the horizon. Over the thousands of years‚ art has irrefutably
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Rebekah Newby March 28‚ 2013 Psychology Mr. Zeglin Road to Perdition Throughout Road to Perdition‚ Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development is evident mostly through the Post-Conventional stage in the abstract moral reasoning and quest for fairness by the main characters. Throughout the movie it follows an orphan named Mike Sullivan who’s raised by a crime boss by the name of Jeff Rooney. Mike Sullivan then becomes a hit man for Jeff Rooney. One night while on the job Sullivan’s own son Mike Sullivan
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ACC460 –Auditing Video Case Fraud and Tone at the Top - Video Case Questions This video is an informative video made for accounting students and employees that outlines the danger of corruption and fraud in the workplace. The majority of the video is an interview with Walt Pavlo of MCI Worldcom. He explains his case and the steps that lead him to take the actions that landed him in prison. While he is telling his story two gentalmen describe how Walt’s story relates to the world of auditing
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