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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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    Lord of the Flies Tone

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    peace and joy while masking its more menacing underlying tone. While Ralph blew the conch shell‚ "his face was dark with the violent pleasure of making this stupendous noise‚ and his heart was making the stretched shirt shake" (16). Golding’s use of imagery here reveals Ralph’s joy and excitement at blowing the conch‚ but also describes his pleasure as "violent"‚ possibly hinting at a future darkness. Golding also employs diction to set the tone when he mentions the twins‚ Sam and Eric: "They breathed

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    Tone Of The Poem Landlady

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    his interest in acquiring the apartment develops. However‚ understanding the societal racism that plagued the peoples‚ he confesses that he is indeed African. For a while the landlady is silent‚ but afterwards she abruptly asks the man if his skin tone is light or very dark. The man is enraged and comprises sarcastic replies. One of his responses includes asking the landlady whether she is referring to plain or milk chocolate. He continues to make such comments to the point that he describes how

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    ​Throughout the story of “The Lottery”‚ author Shirley Jackson uses an ironic tone. From the reader point of view‚ a lottery is special grand prize‚ not a twisted turn of events which involves death. The use of irony prepares the readers for the most dramatic reaction. ​Shirley Jackson sets the most obvious use of irony from the beginning. From the first impression of the readers‚ the lottery is a cash prize. As the plot ticking’s‚ Jackson played on the belief and turned it to the complete opposite

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    My Papa's Waltz Tone

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    this poem the tone of the speaker is characterized by the deep devotion and love he felt towards his father during his youth. Looking back on the time his father spent playing with him when he was a child‚ the speaker describes “[hanging] on like death” and “clinging to [his] shirt” (Roethke 3‚16). These childlike descriptions show that the speaker felt a deep devotion to his father and had a loving relationship with him. The terms “hanging on” and “clinging” both signify the tone of loving dependence

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    Tone is the attitude and portrayal of the author’s words forming the story. D.H. Lawrence’s tone for this short story is serious. Throughout the story nothing truly cheerful actually happens. The plot mainly focuses on two things‚ Maybel trying to kill herself and the unlikely pair’s seemingly forced relationship. It almost seems as if the weather where the story takes place reflects the tone of the overall story: gloomy‚ grey‚ and cold. Even without

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    syllables again in the last line. The poem is closest to be compared to a haiku rather than a sonnet or a sestina. There are three stanzas and eight lines in each stanza. Lang uses rhetoric language in his poem. Lang uses words to help create the tone‚ mood‚ and emotion. Some rhetorical pattering: “taketh‚” “maketh‚” “to throw‚” “can stow‚” “fro‚” “without a blow‚” and “ebb and flow.” Lang repeats “These alone can ne’er bestow Youth‚ and health‚ and Paradise.” This means that money and treasure

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    Tone in "The Destruction of Sennacherib" In Lord Byron ’s poem "The Destruction of Sennacherib" the narrator ’s tone is one of amazement. It ’s clear to see that he is amazed a how quickly and easily the huge enemy army is wiped out. He says that the enemy ’s army was as numerous as the leaves on the trees and that their spears shined like the "stars on the sea"‚ but all the angel of death had to do was "spread his wings" to dispose of them. The speaker seems to be in awe of how little effort

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    Tone Of The Road Not Taken

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    lessons and realistic descriptions through his poetry. In his well-known poem “The Road Not Taken” he writes about an experience that all humans go through at some point in their lives. The poet helps us to better understand this message by his use of tone and literary devices throughout the poem. “The Road Not Taken” is about a traveler who comes upon a fork in the road. There are two paths‚ and he has to decide which one he should take. However‚ when you read between the lines of this

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    but how does one get these specific concepts? By timbre (tone color). Through the concepts of voice classification‚ instrument families and members‚ and ensemble type you can get a multitude of tone colors. With each tone color comes up a different idea. Timbre: otherwise known as “tone color”‚ is the quality of music that identifies a specific instruments sound. Different instruments differentiate by variety/contrast of “color. These tones can be described as mellow‚ bright‚ rustic‚ dark‚ and in

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