...Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt is a futuristic short story centered on the idea of technological advancements that take over every aspect of human ability and inevitably cause the death of parents that attempt to shut it down. Bradbury helps readers understand the setting and the intended time frame using extremely graphic figurative language and tone using diction. Figurative Language Describing Setting. Early in the story Bradbury uses figurative language when he talks about the veldtland and “the hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden lake, the great rusty smell of animals, [and] the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air” (Bradbury 1). This provides the reader with an exceptionally striking idea of the exact...
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...Desiree Bealer English 3 Pd 7th January 31, 2014 In the passage Lord Chesterfield reason for writing this is to inform the readers that his advice is not to harm us, but to help us. He is not trying to be like our parents, but to be our mentor and guide. Mr. Chesterfield is saying he has been through it and would like to help us as he repeats “I know “. Chesterfield use strong diction words such as moroseness, imperiousness, and garrulity to get his point across. The tone of this passage is understanding and sincere because Chesterfield starts to reminisce on his life mistakes and he tries to understand his son own life. While hoping to reach out to his son to be a better person. Chesterfield also tells his son that he better take the advice because without him he is nothing, no money, home, or education. Chesterfield also hopes that history want repeat itself by saying “neither have, nor can have a shilling in the world but from me “. On the other hand Lord Chesterfield has faith in his though about making good decisions for himself. Chesterfield tells his son he should push himself and strive to be excellent. Chesterfield tries not to dictate his son as a parent but to be his friend, because he knows how easy it is to not listen to your parent. Chesterfield also uses rhetorical questions to help and boost his son motivation to do better. In lines (35-41 0 Chesterfield tells his son he should use his education to come above any and everyone else “for can there...
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...Presenting as a feminist symbol during ancient Egypt, Hypatia was a scholarly woman, and a well respected intellectual. The wrongful murder of Hypatia, committed by Peter the Lector, was unjustified. The diction that Zielinski uses suggests that the murder that Peter the Lector committed was an act of pure violence, religious intolerance, and dehumanization. Zielinski uses the word “stripped” in describing the process of Hypatia’s murder and to suggest that her death was dehumanizing. Although being stripped was an unnecessary part of her execution, Peter the Lector’s mob of Christians continued to strip her. From the description of Hypatia, It can be inferred that she was a desirable woman, ”exceedingly beautiful and fair of form” was the description of her given by the Suda lexicon. Hypatia was desirable and lived celibately, and stripping her was degrading because her exposed body was left bare in front of the men she refused to let touch her, connoting negative feelings of humiliation and vulnerability. Hypatia was publicly shamed and disrespected, stripping her of her value, and dehumanizing her in the process. Hateful, religious intolerance is a major contribution to Hypatia’s murder. Peter the Lector was a Christian, opposed to Hypatia...
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...P LA T O and a P LAT Y P U S WA L K I N TO A B A R . . . Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes < T H O M A S C AT H C A RT & D A N I E L K L E I N * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * P l at o a n d a P l at y p u s Wa l k i n t o a B a r . . . PLATO and a PLAT Y PUS WA L K I N T O A B A R . . . < Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Th o m as Cat h c a rt & Dan i e l K l e i n A B R A M S I M AG E , N E W YO R K e d i to r : Ann Treistman d e s i g n e r : Brady McNamara pro d u c t i on m anag e r : Jacquie Poirier Cataloging-in-publication data has been applied for and may be obtained from the Library of Congress. ISBN 13: 978-0-8109-1493-3 ISBN 10: 0-8109-1493-x Text copyright © 2007 Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Illlustration credits: ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/Bruce Eric Kaplan/ cartoonbank.com: pg 18; ©Andy McKay/www.CartoonStock.com: pg 32; ©Mike Baldwin/www.CartoonStock.com: pgs 89, 103; ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/ Matthew Diffee/cartoonbank.com: pg 122; ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/ Leo Cullum/cartoonbank.com: pg 136; ©Merrily Harpur/Punch ltd: 159; ©Andy McKay/www.CartoonStock.com: pg 174. Published in...
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