1. What is diction? (5 points) an author’s word choice words that are inverted connotation in dialect formal language in poetry 2. Which of the following lines from John Muir’s "The Calypso Borealis" shows an example of dialect? (10 points) "I wish you would write me‚ say once a year‚" I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy. How long I sat beside Calypso I don’t know. "What were ye doin’ there?" 3. Read the following paragraph from John Muir’s "The Calypso Borealis" and
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22197 A Hopeless Tone is Created from Personal Experiences Established and weathered authors use certain literary techniques to further enhance the reader’s experience. Tone is one of these techniques‚ and is easily described as the general character or attitude of a piece of writing. Tim O’Brien’s combat experience in Vietnam led him to suffer from PTSD‚ and this condition led him to establish a hopeless tone in the first chapter of The Things They Carried. The author’s interview introduces
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Literary Analysis In the narrative “Salvation” Langston Hughes vividly paints a picture of himself as a little boy in a charismatic scene of a church where he takes us into his feelings of pressure‚ confusion‚ and disappointment in himself during his “saving” from sin by Jesus. He uses literary devices ‚to build up and develop detail of his experience‚ such as his use of dialogue‚ compression‚ and he writes in the mind of a young boy. Langston Hughes brings emotion and drama to his childhood
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the song “Eve of Destruction” by P.F. Sloan is mainly about the Vietnam War. Specifically‚ it is against the War‚ and it states disadvantages of it. In the first verse‚ McGuire sings‚ “You’re old enough to kill but not for votin’.” This line expresses anti-war ideas and is about the disapproval of the drafting of eighteen-year-olds. The message is also about the possible destruction of humanity that all the chaos of the War was capable of causing. “We’re on the eve of destruction” is the line that
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People have foretold the end of the world for centuries‚ illustrating great destruction and dilapidation. The 1920’s‚ a time period full of these conjectures. World War 1 had just ended and the great depression would soon strike. What better time period than this to foresee the end times? One such apocalyptic prediction during this time period surfaced in the form of a poem‚ The Second Coming‚ written by William Butler Yeats.Though a rebellious view‚ the poem depicts a world falling apart due to
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Weapons of Mass Destruction Everest University Online 12/14/2013 Amy Nelson Weapons of mass destruction include biological‚ chemical‚ and nuclear. I will analyze the history of these three aspects of weapons of mass destruction‚ and give my opinion of the future threat of these weapons. Biological Weapons: From the plague of the fourteenth century in Europe that reportedly killed about one-third of the population to the use of smallpox infected blankets given to Native Americans in the
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Will Be “We Are Still Only Human” by Verlyn Klinkenborg is an analysis of expectations and human nature in which there is too much of a positive outlook for the future of society. Klinkenborg uses a serious tone that makes his essay fit for a speech. He also uses many techniques to show tone including diction‚ imagery‚ details‚ language‚ and sentence structure. “The politeness that afflicts me is not civility‚ which is an urbane quality compatible even with cynicism”(ll.5-7). Klinkenborg’s choice
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The Destruction Caused by Isolation According to Biblical accounts‚ God created the world and humankind. One of the central elements of this creation was the establishment of community and relationships within humanity. Genesis tells of relationships between humanity and God‚ between man and woman‚ and between humanity and nature. When Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit‚ they were isolated from God‚ in conflict with one another‚ and repelled from the Garden of Eden. This isolation was
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safely figure that the accumulated population of dinosaurs exceeds that of cows and other cattle of this of this present time. You can also safley figure that dinosaurs muliple times more massive than cows and any other animal on this planet. The point is that the dinosaurs whould have emitted more greenhouse gases than cows due to their huge size. They would also have emitted more gas over a time of 165 million years. According to the original claim this should have caused many massive holes in
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It is nothing but human to want more. This essential quality is what makes people human. By striving to be better‚ this species has done countless extraordinary things by wanting to elevate ourselves higher than others. However‚ Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” shows the story of young‚ beautiful‚ 19th century housewife Mathilde Loisel aspiring to be a luxurious white collar. Even though it is human nature to want more‚ Mathilde ravening desire to appear as higher class blinds her of what she has
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