topic to the whole world‚ he first must use several persuasion tactics to make his audience realize what they are doing with their everyday lives. By using these tactics‚ he successfully creates a portentous tone and fearful mood throughout his sermon. Edwards uses a portentous tone to describe God’s wrath and to persuade the congregation into trusting God in order to save themselves from the pits of hell. Since this topic could be confusing to some people‚ Edwards uses several descriptions
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“Ozymandia” is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ who is known to be one of the most famous and respected poets of the 19th century. Shelley has written many great poems in his lifetime‚ and “Ozymandia” is one of his best works. This poem is a sonnet‚ meaning that it is a fourteen-line poem. The narrator of this poem encounters a traveller who tells him about the fallen statue of Ozymandias‚ or Ramesses II. He was “the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty (1292-1186 BCE) who claimed to have won
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Carl Sandburg makes a profuse amount of points about his city in his poem‚ “Chicago”. He shows that although his city is known for being a rough city‚ there are still positive aspects of Chicago. He brings to mind the murders‚ and prostitution‚ and poverty of the city‚ but he also reminds his readers of the arts and the sports and how strong his city is. Carl Sandburg’s city is “alive and coarse and strong and cunning” (line 10). Carl Sandburg shows different aspects about his city and he uses literary
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eyewitness account of the plague in Florence‚ Italy in 1384‚ talked about by Marilyn Migiel‚ was the author of the Decameron himself. Giovanni Boccaccio’s account of the plague is seemingly an eyewitness account because he “filtered his stories through other literary and historical descriptions of plagues” (Migiel 17). Boccaccio describes the plague as having baffling symptoms‚ the certainty of death‚ the overbearing presence of death and the dying‚ the procedures for trying to avoid the plague‚ the forsaken
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In the poem "After Auschwitz" by Anne Sexton‚ the speaker talks about her feelings after touring a concentration camp. The speaker writes about what humans are able to do to other humans and how horrible this specific time was. The speakers tone is mostly angry. During the poem‚ the speaker’s tone becomes more and more angry and dark but at the end of the poem in the last two lines it also turns into a sad tone. These tones are created to confirm the bad things that happened in the concentration
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the theme of the story is that it helps set the atmosphere and mood. Firstly‚ they’re in a castellated abbey that is completely cut-off from the world. Not only can no one get in‚ but no one can get out. They are not just protecting themselves from the outdoors‚ they’re trapping themselves inside. That sense of confinement is threatening on it’s own. If anything was to happen‚ there would be no way out (as we can see from the Red Death outbreak). In the text‚ Poe describes their seclusion when describing
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Katelin DeSieno April 16‚ 2013 Art 101 B01 Compare & Contrast Essay In this essay I will compare and contrast two paintings. The first is “Grainstack (Sunset)” painted by Claude Monet in 1891. The second being “Marilyn Monroe” painted by Andy Warhol in 1967. When Monet painted “Grainstack‚” he was experimenting with perceptual color. The idea of the Impressionist movement was to objectively record nature as it was seen by the painter‚ focusing on the effects of color and light
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The Theme of Death in Poems Death is a common theme in many poems. It is viewed so differently to everyone. In the poems‚ "Because I could not stop for Death‚" "First Death in Nova Scotia‚" and "War is kind" death is presented by each narrator as something different. To one it is a kind gentle stranger while to another it is a cold cruel being. A kind gentleman stranger personifies death in‚ "Because I could not stop for Death." The narrator of the poem is a busy person‚ with little time
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In the poem “Song” by John Donne‚ the poet presents the listener with a closed form consisting of three stanzas. Each stanza is amplified with one sestet that exhibits a rhyme scheme‚ ABABCC‚ and a concluding rhyming triplet. Donne uses this form to create a light tone‚ a song of romance. However‚ the lyrical approach is undercut by the disenchantment that the speaker encounters with a woman. The disenchantment ignites the speaker to view all women as inconsistent and disloyal‚ despite the poet’s
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from an old tale passed down from generation to generation by Indigenous people. David Bouchard and E.Pauline Johnson are authors who have written their version of this tale. In Bouchard’s poem Qu’Appelle‚ the tone of his narrative poem is personal. Bouchard did not use a consistent rhyme scheme which made his poem sound as if he were telling the story to his readers directly‚ differing from Johnson’s strict rhyme scheme that distanced itself from the audience. Furthermore‚ to create an intimate connection
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