Running Head: MAYA ANGELOU’S TONE IN “WHAT’S YOUR NAME‚ GIRL?” Topic: Maya Angelou’s tone in “What’s Your Name‚ Girl?” Name: chia chih wei Course: Instructor’s Name: Date: March 26‚ 2011 MAYA ANGELOU’S TONE IN “WHAT’S YOUR NAME‚ GIRL?” In the better part of the story Maya Angelou’s tone is full of contempt and anger for her employer. This however‚ is not the only tone that keen readers can identify in Angelou’s story. At some point in her narration‚ the author shows pity and mildness
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Preposition‚ Voice‚ Speech‚ Tenses. Section- D: 1. Value based: Which poem do you appreciate the most – ‘The frog and the nightingale’ or ‘Mirror’? Why? Write the literary devices used in that poem. Write about the poet. (150 words) 2. Extrapolatory: Imagine that you are Miss Mebbin (Mrs Packletide’s Tiger). How you would have blackmailed Mrs. Packletide and for what? How you would you have managed to get something of your choice? (200 words) 3. Novel based: Diary of a young girl: Write a book review
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light‚ then the author is flattering the girl he loves so that she may love him. I addition‚ most all of William Shakespeare’s poems are looked at as being love poems. Don’t Steal This helps support the theory that the poem has a romantic and loving tone to it. The author attempts to display his love for the love in his life by saying things like the phrases in line two. The line states‚ “Don’t Steal Thou art more lovely and more temperate” the author writes that the girl being written to is more
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Narration and Tone If fear‚ quizzical characters‚ and death all have something in common‚ it is that they are all present in each of the following short stories: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart”‚ Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “The Ghost in the Mill”‚ and Samuel Clemens’ “Cannibalism in the Cars”. Each story has a unique and thrilling plot‚ with diverse characters‚ from the maniacs in “The Tell Tale Heart” and “Cannibalism in the Cars” to the simple storyteller in “The Ghost in the Mill”. Tones differ quite
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“Yeats’s poetry is driven by a tension between the real world in which he lives and an ideal world that he imagines.” I believe this is an apt statement to define to work of Yeats. At the heart of Yeats’s poetry there is a strong division between the natural world and the idyllic world which Yeats appears to be constantly seeking. Yeats was an artist who was the first Irishman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel committee described as: “inspired poetry‚ which in a highly artistic
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October 9‚ 2014 How Figurative Language Effects Tone in “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” As seen by simply reading the poem‚ one cannot come from it without having a feeling of awe and inspiration‚ along with a new desire to read Chapman’s translation of Homer. The poem is rich with emotion-invoking language and filled to the brim with excitement. The poet‚ John Keats‚ uses figurative language such as metaphor and simile to create a tone of wonder‚ fulfillment‚ and ecstasy in his poem
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Audience Tone And Content In Academic Writing Purpose audience tone and content all of these are part of writing process and are extremely important for a good piece of academic writing. Paragraph divide ideas into logical and manageable parts. Purpose‚ tone and audience these three elements shape the content of each paragraph. Purpose: The reason why the writer is writing the paragraph and what is his hope to achieve with the paper. Without a sturdy purpose the paper is worthless. Tone: The thoughts
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In "The Life You Save may be Your Own‚" Flannery O’Connor descriptively characterizes the battles within oneself with the characters of Mrs. Crater‚ Tom Shiftlet‚ and Lucynell Crater. The realistic and truthful tones of their actions suggest that through personal obstacles and flaws‚ triumph can be obtain by being truthful. All three characters of the story are realistic and truthful in a different way. Mrs. Crater could be considered the most truthful character in the entire story. She does not
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Imagine that you are appointed as the manager of a reputed company. How will you plan the various activities in your organization? ------------------- Answer # 1 Planning is a process which involves the determination of future course of action‚ that is why an action‚ what an action‚ how to take action and when to take action. Terry has defined planning in terms of future course of action. He says that: "Planning is the selection and relating of facts and making and using of assumptions
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“For You O Democracy” Walt Whitman Imagery‚ Diction‚ and Tone In “For You O Democracy‚” Walt Whitman uses imagery of paradise and words of emotion to evoke a strong message: to struggle for what one believes in therefore create an ideal world‚ a paradise. Whitman on a personal level uses literary devices like imagery and diction to illustrate his struggle‚ motivated by his love for democracy. Throughout the poem‚ Whitman creates an idea of unity‚ a feeling of peace‚ as well as dreams of an ideal
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