Lauren Krieger Mrs. Wells Podell Honors English 10 30 November 2014 Compare and Contrast Literary Analysis Poetry has often been used as a way to record and reflect on events throughout history. War is an everlasting part of history and its impact is still felt through poetry. While “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen and “Five Day Requiem for Vietnam” by Nan Braymer both use dramatic diction to convey the theme that individuals should accept responsibility for their actions‚ Owen favors similes
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Milligan’s Backyard Storage Kits CASE BACKGROUND Milligan’s Backyard Storage Kits‚ a mail order company‚ sells a variety of backyard storage unit kits and landscaping decorations to its customers. Although the company makes a profit‚ David Milligan‚ the company’s owner‚ realizes that he can improve his company’s operations if he better manages his inventory. Mr. Milligan requests your help in preparing an Inventory Analysis worksheet. The Inventory Analysis worksheet provides Mr
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How to Approach an Essay (Written Exam) 18th May‚ 2010 “Examine how narrative perspective influences the reader in ‘Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies.’” 1. Unpacking and decoding essay questions A. Unpacking I. What you are required to do (approach keywords): Examine … (that means describe and explain in detail…) II. What you should writer about a) (specific keywords) …how narrative perspective influences the reader... b) (general keywords) …in ‘Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies
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In the passage be ginning "They had picked " from the novel Snow Falling On Cedars‚ the author‚ David Guterson‚ uses many techniques to give the passage a depressing‚ and frightening mood. He uses vivid imagery to describe Carl’s dead body. He also uses figurative language‚ such as metaphors and similes to show the severity of the situation. Finally‚ his diction shows the reader how reading about a crime scene can seem real if the word choice is right. All the techniques Guterson use help the reader
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Chelsea Garcia Many authors succeed in trying to illustrate their writing and reveal information in the way they write but they don’t say it directly. Some authors succeed by using literary devices and good diction. Shakespeare confirms Juliet’s anxiousness and immaturity by using poetic language such as hyperboles‚ similes‚ and allusions. Through use of skilled writing‚ Shakespeare demonstrates Juliet’s anxiety to know Romeo’s Response shows that she is too impatient to wait. “The clock
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novel‚ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens follows a character named Pip from childhood to adulthood. In Pip’s journey‚ his dreams and the dreams of other characters beside him prove to be elusive and hard to grasp. The articles from the newspaper‚ Backyard at the Blue Boar‚ all have their roots in the theme of dreams and their elusiveness. The advertisement for the publishing of wildly popular novel by Lewis Carroll‚ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland invites a reader to tumble down the rabbit hole
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Emily Dickinson’s (1830 - 1886) Poem “Success is counted sweetest” sends the message that success is tangible or intangible and has the highest value for “those who never succeed”. Emily Dickinson twists the meaning of the poem in changing the perspective after the second stanza. Thus that twist offers that the understanding of the value of success is dependent on the point of view. The point of the first stanza is that the value of success feels the best to those who didn’t succeed for a long
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Writing a Personal Narrative Purpose and Audience Personal narratives allow you to share your life with others and vicariously experience the things that happen around you. Your job as a writer is to put the reader in the midst of the action letting him or her live through an experience. Although a great deal of writing has a thesis‚ stories are different. A good story creates a dramatic effect‚ makes us laugh‚ gives us pleasurable fright‚ and/or gets us on the edge of our seats. A story has
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1. “Clearly his personal god or chi was not made for great things. A man could not rise beyond the destiny of his chi. The saying of the elders was not true- that if a man said yea his chi also affirmed. Here was a man whose chi said nay despite his own affirmation.” (Achebe‚ 131) This passage created a question in my mind. Who’s perspective are we reading from? It seems as thought we are reading what a narrator is saying‚ but the narrator is somebody from that tribe. In most books‚ if a character
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A Symbol of American Culture Jennifer Price wrote the essay‚ “The Plastic Pink Flamingo” with intentions to get her opinions clearly across. Price paid close attention to her word choice and successfully used diction to portray her tone towards how she feels about American culture. Repetition is a useful form of diction to get the writer’s point across. Price used this by constantly repeating the word “pink.” When reading something over and over again‚ one tends to get bored with the idea. Price
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