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    Synopsis The English Civil War was the war that set the tone of the British Government to this very day. Conflicts between parliament and kings started to turn English citizens against each other due to their political stance. The English Civil War began to change the manner of government‚ make the king accountable to the law and protect the rights of men. Although the Civil war lasted from 1642-1651‚ the build up to the war started many years before when James I was on throne and became more severe

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    who asks them how the water is. Neither of the younger fish question his meaning‚ until later in the story when one fish turns to the other and asks “’…What the hell is water?’”(653). I think by starting off with that story‚ Wallace is setting the tone for the rest of his speech as someone who is going to be honest and truthful about the future that awaits the graduates in the real world.

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    Tone can be defined as the attitude that a poem’s speaker takes toward the poem’s subject (Marchbank). Interpreting the tone of a poem can be very difficult‚ because one must weigh all the elements of poetry to read its tone. The tone of a poem shapes the ideas the poem is communicating‚ so misreading the tone is misreading the entire poem. In the poem‚ "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night‚" by Dylan Thomas‚ diction and form serve to create the tone of the poem. In William Wordsworth’s poem‚ "I

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    Lines 1-2 The first order of business in a poem is to establish situation and mood‚ and Roethke selects the father’s drinking as the foremost fact to be conveyed. The tone is slightly comic‚ as the speaker suggests that there was enough alcohol on the father’s breath to inebriate a child. This observation implies that the father had consumed a substantial amount of whiskey‚ since the smell of it was very potent. These lines also establish a closeness between the two figures. The poem is a direct

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    George Orwell uses tone and diction in his book to mold the scene of 1984 into a gloomy‚ dark and depressing set. He begins with setting the time of day‚ thirteen. Choosing "thirteen" instead of one Orwell sets a tone of an over militarized nation. He then moves on to using "boiled cabbage and old rag mats"; an all-enveloping‚ oppressive smell one couldn’t wish on even on their worst enemy. The combination of these two along with the babbling telescreen‚ snooping police‚ and contrived posters anchor

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    In “The Ill-Made Knight”‚ the third book of The Once and Future King by T.H. White‚ there are many approaches to tone. Tone is a writer’s attitude toward a subject or character and is normally produced by diction. Tone is shown in a passage that explains what it is like to wait for joy‚ referring to Guenever as the one who waits and Lancelot as the cause of her waiting. The tone shifts from intensity to anger as White displays a theme of how to treat a lover. Intensity is first shown as

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    Bryanna Rivera   Rivera 1  Ap­English  Mrs. Padilla  12/13/14    In Mark Twain’s essay “Corn­Pone Opinions” he uses different strategies to express his  position on how people’s actions and thoughts are excessively influenced by others. He changes  the pronoun “I” to “we”. Twain does this by first explaining his own opinion then addresses  everyone else as a collaborative group in order to support his point. He basically states that  people follow trends whether they like them or not. He gives a few examples to support his 

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    and bitter‚ Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” inspires the audience to come together to make a change and defends the people involved. King expresses his hope to the nation through his tone‚ rhetorical appeals‚ and rhetorical tools. Kings optimistic and bitter tone inspires and defends the audience throughout his letter. Martin begins his letter with optimism about the future for him and his people. King discloses that although not everyone understand his motives‚ he has

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    ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wifred Owen ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ was written by Wifred Owen in early October 1917‚ and published in 1920. He wrote this poem whilst recovering from shell shock in the Craiglockhart War Hospital. The influences associated with the writing of the poem include Owen’s experiences in the trenches in World War 1‚ his changing attitudes to war and meeting fellow war poet‚ Siegfried Sassoon. Owen felt pressured by the propaganda to become a soldier and volunteered on 21st October

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    We Wear The Mask My reaction to the poem “ We Wear the Mask” is a feeling of truthfulness. It tells about what people see and what others hide. People that I have met don’t really act like themselves. Like when it says “We smile‚ but‚ O great Christ‚ our cries to thee from tortured souls arise” those are the people who have hid themselves from others. They are people we wouldn’t know that are at home cutting themselves are even attempt to do suicide that only the lord knows. They can talk like

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