If you’re looking for a good, quick memoir to read during the winter months and need to brush up on your commas and dashes, I highly recommend Mary Norris’s Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. The book begins as a memoir, Norris explaining her journey from Ohio to Vermont to New York, along the way learning to drive a milk truck, package cheese, and eventually proof pieces for the New Yorker. It’s a good book on a number of levels, the first being that Norris puts grammar in layman’s terms and understands the mistakes those of us who aren’t copy-editors often make. The next is that she is a likable narrator.…
Literature has long been difficult to understand, an author’s use of rhetoric can be analyzed to have many different significances as well as meanings. Poetry is particularly difficult to analyze, thus many writers and critics have created their own arguments for the meaning of different pieces. As literary critics and scholars ourselves, we in this English 100W class must determine what arguments we find valid, and which arguments give us deeper insight on pieces that we read and study.…
rhetorical situation; close textual analysis; strategic ambiguity; declarative tone; characterization; repetition; neo-classical criticism; ethos; logos; pathos; syllogism; enthymeme…
In conclusion, the sympathetic effect that the passage has is due to the writer’s use of animalistic imagery, diction, and similes. "And…
conveys meaning: the lack of rhyme and meter add up to “a narrative and personal quality”; “the break…
“Thanatopsis” is a romantic poem written by William Cullen Bryant. The poem gives a pantheistic and philosophical view of nature, God, and death. “Thanatopsis” was a revolutionary work for its time because it focuses of finding solace in death. Bryant’s writing challenged the normal concept of literature by building off of and borrowing old ideas. Before transcendentalist ideas became popular, writers’ work was centered on God and the physical world. Bryant and other transcendentalist writers challenged this ordinary way of thinking by questioning reality, finding comfort in nature, and concentrating on improving their inner beings. Bryant vividly describes the beauty and grace in nature with the use of personification. He wants the reader…
-Stevenson’s clever use of punctuation in this passage breaks down an other wise very long sentence. The use of commas and semicolons creates the pauses needed to build suspense and anticipation as the events…
Pathos- this is effectively used frequently through out the text so that the speaker gets the audience to be emotional. An example of this is when he says “ to be abandoned by god is worse than to be punished by him” (444). By saying this, the speaker get the audience to empathize with the victim, put themselves in the victims shoes, which gets the emotions and feeling across to all the members of the audience and get then engaged. He uses human emotion as a way to speak out against the holocaust and then speaks of the horrors of it to trigger emotion from the audience “Over there, behind the black gates of Auschwitz, the most tragic of all prisoners were the “Muselmanner” as they called. Wrapped in their torn blankets, they would sit or lie on the ground, staring vacantly into space, unaware of who or where they were—strangers to their surroundings...” (444). This creates a feeling of horror and helps the…
Everybody has ever dreamed a dream. It will be so delightful if we could make that dream comes true. To make it happen, it is not easy as we invert our hands. We have to pass through some obstacles that sometimes make us desperately in hope and finally we decide not to continue the process. One of the obstacles that most people face is love. People are afraid of being shut in pursuing their dream by the love that they have. They are afraid of hurting their relatives by leaving them in the purpose of finding ways to make dream comes true. Paulo Coelho in his book The Alchemist convinces the readers that love is not a thing which will discourage somebody to stop pursuing dreams. Through Santiago, he shows that love makes him more courageous to pursue his Personal Legend.…
‘’On the sacred branch of my only voice/ -I insist./ Insist for us all,/ which is the job/ of the voice,and especially/ of the poet.Else what am I for,what use am I for, what use am I if I don’t insist?’’ This was the very crucial question raised in the poem, Refusing Silence by Tess Gallagher. In her poem, Tess Gallagher creates a momento revolving around not only what poets do,but what they should do if they don’t create poems. In doing this however, she writes her poem in a lyric style, while conveying repetition,hyperboles,and rhythms to aid in creating the poem.…
The author uses diction in the passages to signify the effect of the author¡¯s meaning in story and often sway readers to interpret ideas in one way or another. The man in the story arrives to a ¡°[dry] desert¡± where he accosts an animal with ¡°long-range attack¡± and ¡°powerful fangs.¡± The author creates a perilous scene between the human and animal in order to show that satisfaction does not come from taking lives. With instincts of silence and distrust, both of them freeze in stillness like ¡°live wire.¡± In addition, the man is brought to the point where animal¡¯s ¡°tail twitched,¡± and ¡°the little tocsin sounded¡± and also he hears the ¡°little song of death.¡± With violence ready to occur, the man tries to protect himself and others with a hoe, for his and their safety from the Rattler. The author criticizes how humans should be ¡°obliged not to kill¡±, at least himself, as a human. The author portrays the story with diction and other important techniques, such as imagery, in order to influence the readers with his significant lesson.…
San, Debra. "Hiatus Of Subject And Verb In Poetic Language." Style 39.2 (2005) : 137-152.…
In the poem, Voltaire employs the use of pathos through imagery to further stir up emotion in the reader to convince them to agree that God is unforgiving and unfair. Harsh descriptions of the earthquake such as “bleeding, lacerated, and still alive”(10), “the half-formed cries of their dying voices”(13), and “the frightful sight of their smoking ashes”(14) fill the poem. By giving a disturbing and haunting image of the disaster, the audience commiserates with the victims during the Lisbon Earthquake without much knowledge of the people itself, and thus experiences compassion towards the helpless victims. The imagery and extended descriptions puts the audience in the victim’s shoes, and without thought to the sins of the people of Lisbon, the audience unconsciously shows bias and agrees with Voltaire and his philosophies. By presenting to the reader what they wish not to happen to them, Voltaire attempts to convince the reader that the world is unfair and this is not the best of all worlds.…
“The maker of a sentence, like the other artist, launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.”…
Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.…