AP English Language & Composition A satire is a work that is intended to ridicule or mock ideas‚ persons‚ events or doctrines‚ or to make fun of human faults or weaknesses. The Onion News Network is a network that features satirical reporting on international‚ national‚ and local news. The Onion created an article called MagnaSoles‚ and this is a satire. It speaks about this so-called “MagnaSole product” and really tries to advertise and sell it. Many rhetorical strategies and appeals show up
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Review Questions: Written Response Questions~ 1) Egyptians 2) 9000 B.C.E. 3) Nile 4) Old Kingdom/Archaic Period 5) Kushites 6) The parallelism between The Indus Valley and The Nile Valley was pretty much the same. 7) Earliest physical remains were and still are pretty much inaccessible and there is a lack of deciphered written records. 8) 40‚000 people 9) The Aryans were Indo-Europeans. 10) Varna or Caste True/False Questions~ 11) True 12) True 13) True 14) False 15) False Short Answer Questions~ 16)
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Question 2: What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day? Answer : That day‚ Franz noticed the absence of the routine commotion caused by the opening and closing of desks‚ repeating of lessons in unison and rapping of the teacher’s ruler on the table. The usual hustle-bustle was replaced by a strange stillness that was the characteristic of a school on a “Sunday morning.” Question 3: What had been put up on the bulletin-board? Answer : The bulletin-board notified the
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AP Language Rhetorical Analysis In Jennifer Price’s critical essay‚ “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History‚” she assesses the irony in the popularity of the iconic plastic flamingo in American culture in the 1950s. Price illustrates her irony and negative attitude towards the way Americans destroy the lives of the flamingo and replaced it with an obnoxious‚ inanimate‚ over celebrated Floridian souvenir with adverse diction juxtaposed with positive word choice and through factual history
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Li 1 Mr. Albert Chan English 102 14 October 2014 The Power of Language The introduction of “A Question of Language‚” is a frame for Gloria Naylor’s discussion. Gloria Naylor defines how the written and spoken language can give different meaning to a word. She considers language powerful tool used by writers and everyday people‚ to express their feelings and capture reality and life. She portrays just how powerful she
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Question: In what ways were the late nineteenth-century Populists the heirs of the Jacksonian-Democrats with respect to overall objectives and specific proposals for reform? The Populists of the late nineteenth-century were in many aspects the heirs of the Jacksonian Democrats‚ carrying on the legacy and tradition left behind. The Populists were very similar to the Jacksonians in many of their overall objectives and specific reform proposals. During the Jacksonian Era from about 1828-1842‚ the
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Alliteration: The headline employs alliteration through the repetition of the letter ‘P’ in order to engage the reader as well as hold his attention. Allusion: The writer eludes to the horrors of the Holocaust in the hope of evoking a visceral response that will encourage support for the current Iraq War. Analogy The writer employs the analogy of cancer. In doing so‚ he likens gambling to the infamous malignant tumour as to suggest the devastating effects of gambling on the health of society
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used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson‚ but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed” (Lee 323). This clearly shows that despite Tom’s innocence and Atticus’ ability to defend him‚ Tom Robinson never would have had an opportunity of winning the court case because of his estrangement. The beliefs and opinions of this time period allowed a guilty man to be let free and an innocent man be convicted
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Bush and Gore Election of 2000 In a Presidential election you need a total of 270 electoral votes to win the presidential election. In this specific election you had the previous vice president of Bill Clinton‚ Al Gore‚ and the son of past president‚ George W. Bush. Bush was a current governor of Texas and was the republican candidate‚ and Gore the democrat. Neither party was really favored to win in the election‚ but in the end it came to be one of the closest‚ and most argumentative presidential
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ideas of experimental language poetry‚ a controversial movement in American poetry from the 1970s to the present. Language poetry concentrate on non-narrative forms‚ a role of the language that creates a meaning of a poem and non-traditional way to interact with a text and read it. The reader becomes an important part of the poem because poets play with a presence of the narrator in the poem‚ making an illusion that the speaker is vanishing through the text and the language starts to speak for itself
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