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    she was imprisoned. A major part of this film was the use of handheld camera. Filming from a handheld camera really portrayed the chaos in scenes such as the hostage situation in the news building. The tone of the movie is clearly set by means of loud orchestral music and soft frightening tones and sounds. V’s theme song throughout the whole movie is a loud‚ motivating orchestral ensemble that drives home the utter insanity within his mind. While V is leading a revolution against the government

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    The Crucible Tone Paper

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    The Crucible Tone Paper In Arthur Miller’s book/play The Crucible‚ the tone he adopts towards the subject of witch trials and witch hunts‚ and towards the characters that maintain them‚ is carefully written. His ironic and cynical tones throughout the play poke fun at the religious officials doing what they thought was right‚ executing people they thought were witches. They also further the outlook on the lack of justice in a harsh‚ Puritan society. Miller continually uses irony in situations

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    Clay as a Metaphor for Life Clay is a very versatile thing much like our lives. Our lives keep on changing much like clay does. As we go through the process of creating something as simple as a pinch-pot we have to mold and refine it. Working with clay is a great creating process for me. I get to control the clay and help make it what I want it to be. In life I get to control my fate in the same sort of way and make sure that it is going to turn out the way I want it to. When I get a piece of clay

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    How much will you give up for someone you love? Will you give up everything? Probably not as much as the tree did. Some people take and do not give back they have no sorrow or guilt. The Giving Tree can be seen as a metaphor for a mother-child relationship. In this story‚ there is an animistic tree that cares for a boy and will do anything to see him thrive in life. As long as she sees him‚ she will be the happiest tree in the word but the boy doesn’t appreciate the love and care he is given. For

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    Tone In Camp Harmony

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    The author uses language to create tone in the story “Camp Harmony”. She makes two tones in the story. One tone she creates is sad. Another tone she creates is happy. The authors language creates the tone in the story sad and happy. The first tone is happy. When they were on the bus headed to the camp they were excited about where they were going. The author described fields and farms with chickens‚ cattle‚ and pigs. As they got closer everyone jumped out of their seats and looked out of the window

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    Shakespeare Sonnet 2 Tone

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    The metaphor continues throughout the sonnet‚ and is very important to the progression of the sonnet. Shakespeare also compares W.H. and his potential wife to farm tools‚ specifically plows. He calls the wife’s womb‚ “unear’d‚” or “unploughed‚” which means that

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    Hemingway Tone Analysis

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    "A Clean‚ Well Lighted Place" Although tone is an extremely complicated issue to analyze‚ it is one of the most elementary literary elements. Like a tone of voice‚ the tone of a story may communicate joy‚ anger‚ love‚ sorrow‚ and contempt. It shows the feelings of the author‚ so greatly that we can sense them. The tone adds to the overall feeling‚ and effectiveness portrayed in any literary work. Those feelings may be similar to the feelings expressed by the narrator of the story‚ but sometimes

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    Audience, Aim and Tone

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    Audience Purpose and Tone Three possible entry points into assessing an essay—and important considerations for writers as well—are the identification of the essay’s audience‚ purpose and tone. “Audience” refers to the readership the writer is writing for—as best we can tell from reading it ourselves. An essay’s intended audience could be the entire world‚ or the entire English-reading population‚ or everyone in the United States‚ or readers of the Washington Post newspaper. It could be

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    Symbolism, Tone and Mood

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    Symbolism‚ Tone and Mood: An Overview and Review What is a symbol? • A symbol is an ordinary object‚ event‚ person‚  animal‚ or color to which we have attached a special  meaning and significance. • So‚ symbolism is simply the act of attaching inner meaning to outward things. So what is Literary Symbolism? • When the author uses an object or reference to add deeper  meaning to a story.  • Can be subtle or obvious‚ used sparingly or heavy‐ handedly.  • An author may repeatedly use the same object to convey 

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    Virginia U. Jensen - “The actions of righteous women ripple on through time and space and even generations.” In “The Prologue‚” Anne Bradstreet writes a poem that seeks to understand her role as a female poet in a male-dominated Puritan society. She knows that her poetry is perceived as inferior because it was considered the province of men and appear to humble herself within the context of the poem by indicating her unworthiness‚ yet through the subtext‚ Bradstreet craftily challenges men and

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