...In Cold Blood - Syntax When the novel begins the sentences are long, complicated, and drawn-out, Creating an suspenseful tone and the sense of a calmness before a storm. By using compound-complex sentences Capote is able to give us more insight into characters like Dick, Nancy, and Kenyon. On page 38, Capote writes, “The furniture of the den, a cement-floored room that ran the length of the house, consisted almost entirely of examples of his carpentry (shelves, tables, stools, a ping-pong table) and Nancy's needlework (chintz slip covers that rejuvenated a decrepit couch, curtains, pillows bearing legends: Happy? and You Don't Have To Be Crazy To Live Here But It Helps)" This sentence gives us an insight into the characters of Nancy and her brother, Kenyon, we learn about their hobbies and what kind of people they were. Nancy partook in hobbies that were of “all-american” ideals and had a clever sense of humour....
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...Imagery, not only is it used for creating a vivid picture for the reader, but to further understand the characters and get inside their minds. Through Capote’s writing he uses imagery to add feeling, or sometimes even veer from creating biased opinions. Capote expresses how he feels through the story and wants the reader to establish their own opinion, for his morals are not the exact same as any one person. When Capote is talking about the deaths caused by a shotgun it sounds as though he doesn’t have any emotion towards it, “ended six human lives.” Capote never mentions the fact that two of those lives were those of the killers or that the others were the victims, they were all simply “human”. He does this so that he will not influence the reader’s thoughts on any particular character, this could be due to him not wanting reader’s to be so quick to judge the murderers. Because of that statement the reader may be confused, or be left on edge, “four shotgun blasts.” How do four shots lead up to six deaths? This leaves the reader guessing however, they are still clueless about the events yet to unfold. Behind Capote’s words lies a hidden meaning, the meaning being that he relates to Perry. Perry, a murderer with a tough up bringing. Does his past justify his violent crimes, should reader’s carry sympathy for Perry? Capote’s writing suggests that he does feel sorry for Perry and he wants reader’s to know about Perry’s traumatic childhood before forming an opinion on him. “After...
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...Capote’s purpose of this passage was to create a simplistic version of the life in Holcomb, Kansas and to give a deeper insight on Herb’s personality and characteristics to the audience. Clearly, Herb is a generous and composed individual who can differentiate between what is right and wrong and take actions accordingly. As a responsible father, these traits will help raising his kids to be mature and hard working individuals with successful lives. Towards the middle of the passage, O’Brien utilizes imagery when describing the dazzling plains in Kansas and juxtaposing something darker and more insightful about winter time in Colorado. The words, "apple-eating," "sheep-slaughtering," and "rough Colorado winds,"displays how often the weather...
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...gloomy and depressing? This sentence is quoted from a novel titled In Cold Blood, written by Truman Capote. In this novel, Capote tells us about a little town in Kansas known as Holcomb. He portrays to us that Holcomb is a little, run-down town that doesn’t really have any events going on in it at all. Truman Capote uses rhetorical strategies, such as imagery, diction, and tone, to display to us “all” that it has to offer. Capote uses many rhetorical strategies to put into perspective for us the characteristics of Holcomb,...
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...In his novel, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote vividly describes a to his readers the stereotypical small town life and terrain of Holcomb. He uses various rhetorical strategies, such as descriptive diction, detail about individual parts of town, and imagery to describe the atmosphere of this small western town. This allows the readers to feel as if they are actually there, in Holcomb, immersed in the small town culture. In the first paragraph of his book, Capote starts by using incredibly descriptive diction in order to characterize the little town of Holcomb from a distance. He zooms out from all of the small town drama and gives the reader a scope of the landscape, painting a very familiar picture of the old west in our minds. Capote generously depicts the stereotypical western scene, as being.”flat,” and having,”views that are awesomely extensive; horses,” and “herds of cattle.” This description not only creates the setting in our...
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...Throughout In Cold Blood Capote goes through the lives of the killers, Dick and Perry. Both convicts released from jail and at first glance seem to have a lot in common, but as the book continues the reader can see that the two characters are in fact very different. To characterize the killers Capote frequently uses flashbacks into their pasts, giving the reader a sense of what their lives were like and why they became who they are. Capote also utilizes detailed descriptions of the men’s appearances, quirks, and habits to characterize the murderers. From the moments in the book when we read about the brutal murders of such a benevolent family the killers appear to be nothing more than violent, cold hearted brutes, to be capable of committing such a terrible crime without no apparent motive. As Dick and Perry are running away from the village of Holcomb, Capote begins to delve into the lives of the men. Perry’s past reveals an unstable household, an alcoholic mother, and an abusive childhood as Capote flashes back in Perry’s memories “when he was seven a hated, half-breed child living in a California orphanage run by nuns—shrouded disciplinarians who whipped him for wetting his bed. One of these beatings, one he could never forget. She woke me up she had a flashlight, and she hit me with it. Hit me and hit me. And when the flashlight broke, she went on hitting me in the dark(Capote 93) .” Later on Perry’s memories flashback again as he remembers his family “his mother, an alcoholic...
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...In the two pages assigned from the book ‘In Cold Blood’ I chose two different but complimentary tones, which are intense and critical. These two words show different types of emotions towards the first two pages. Like the word intense, it shows how the people where getting close to finding the responsible for the family’s death. The tone word critical shows how they needed to be carefully on cleaning the scene because of the critical concept that happen there. The Authors diction is to let the reader know how the people felt towards the beginning of part two, when they were searching through the house where the incident had happened. When the four men agreed to clean four of the fourteen rooms, one man remarked “it just shut you up. The...
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...In this excerpt from Truman Capote’s, In Cold Blood, he explores multiple perspectives of the village of Holcomb in great detail. He accomplishes this through the use of imagery to provide his readers with a visual representation of what can be seen in the village. Throughout the excerpt, readers are overwhelmed with a great use of diction that creates a detailed image of Capote’s description. As an author, he does an exceptional job of describing each element he comes across in the village. When writing about the scenery around, he describes the countryside “...with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air” and “The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive...” Even though he says there is not much to see, he still achieves an in...
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...In the book, In Cold Blood, the author, Truman Capote, utilizes rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos, and literary elements to create a suspenseful story, which ultimately contributes to his central argument that criminals are not always inherently evil. Capote persuades his audience by empathizing for both of the Clutter family murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, in part three of the book, “Answer”. In this case, Capote describes both Clutter murderers in a sympathetic and impartial way, and portray them as sensitive, thoughtful, creative, and highly intelligent people. This in turn, gives the reader a feeling of empathy for Perry and Dick. First, in order to establish his credibility and trustworthiness (ethos) throughout the entire narrative of the Clutter murder case and the Clutter murderers, Truman Capote uses interviews and letters from a...
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...Actorish. Night-club comedian. Expert lawyer. One of these things is not like the other. So you would think yet Truman Capote reveals these words to describe Logan Green, in the closing argument of the trial scene in “In Cold Blood”. Capote enlightened the reader to how trial cases are won, he conveys this by exposing the emotional and ethical appeals Green secretly incorporates into his argument. One of the best approaches to get someone to trust you is show them you know what your talking about. In his closing argument, Logan Green stealthily does this, first he researched and found that the jury came from a very religion town, therefore he know if he used bible quotes the jurors would sympathise with him more. Consequently, when, according to Capote, Green pretended to close the Bible the juror would trust what he said to be truth without reading it for themselfs- “Green fumbled and seemed to accidentally shut the Bible,...” “ for this was a venerable...
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...Son The Great Gatsby In Cold Blood The Road The Handmaid’s Tale Love Medicine Catcher in the Rye Moby Dick Beloved In the coming month, reading your novel in its entirety, taking notes and annotating throughout. Complete the following assignments: 1) Response Paper; in this one to two page essay, you will write a personal response to your author and his/her work. Your response should address these questions (at a minimum): Why did you choose this particular author and work? What is intriguing about their style? What themes does the work address? Would you read any other work by this author? This assignment will be due on FEBRUARY 16th, 2012. 2) AP Argumentative Essay Question; you will need to compose an AP-style argumentative essay prompt for your novel. This is a question you would likely see on an actual AP English Language Exam. Have question TYPED and submitted by FEBRUARY 17th, 2012. 3) AP Argumentative Essay. You will compose an AP argumentative essay on the prompt that you created and that I approved. This assignment will be due on March 1st, 2012. 4) AP Rhetorical Analysis Essay question; you will need to compose an AP-style rhetorical analysis essay prompt for your novel. This is a question you would likely see on an actual AP English Language Exam. Have question TYPED and submitted by March 8th, 2011. 5) AP Rhetorical Analysis Essay. You will compose an AP rhetorical analysis essay on the prompt that you...
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...International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature ISSN 2200-3592 (Print), ISSN 2200-3452 (Online) Vol. 2 No. 4; July 2013 Copyright © Australian International Academic Centre, Australia A Stylistic Analysis of D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Sons and Lovers’ Nozar Niazi English Department, Lorestan University, Khorramabad-Iran E-mail: nozar_2002@yahoo.co.in Received: 04-04-2013 doi:10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.2n.4p.118 Abstract Accepted: 14-05-2013 Published: 01-07-2013 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.2n.4p.118 This paper aims at analyzing D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Sons and Lover’ using a stylistic approach. Stylistics is a study of the amalgamation of form with content. The stylistic analysis of a novel goes beyond the traditional, intuitive interpretation, because it combines intuition and detailed linguistic analysis of the text. The defining elements of modern language are within the text itself, not prescribed from outside. With modernist texts, usually understanding comes from close study of the language system defined within the text itself. Form, technique and style are considered not as a mere vehicle of the content of the story, but an integral part of the work’s meaning and value. In our analysis of ‘Sons and Lovers’ the resources of language: lexis, syntax, phonology, figurative language, cohesion and coherence, are discussed in relation to the style of discourse in order to explore hidden meanings in the text. The resources of language are shown...
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...The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer portrays the execution of Gary Gilmore and the events leading up to it. Mailer is found to notable for his portrayal of Gilmore in The Executioner’s Song through the way he tells the storyline behind the murders Gilmore had committed. The Executioner’s Song was primarily made to represent the national debate over the death sentence. Mailer romanticizes Gilmore life, decisions and death by using several rhetorical strategies to apply Gilmore's story to the audience. Mailer novelized the story of Gary Gilmore as the first person to be legally executed in the United States following the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Gilmores execution occurred in Utah which is centered...
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...Wei Lin Writing 39B Professor Greg McClure February 7, 2017 Rhetorical Analysis Inner Fear In Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, as the only survivor of the calamity that has wiped out the entire civilization, Robert Neville is the only hope of human civilization and human species. For some reason, the virus that has mutated every human being doesn’t have any effect on Neville which is a bit ironic. Before the plague, he is just a normal person who lives a normal life. All of sudden, he becomes the chosen one. I Am Legend demonstrate his mental condition breaking down along with his human sanity fading away. After finish reading the book, my direct feeling is fear. The fear is not...
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...Creative metaphor in three creation myths Introduction In this essay I will analyse the creative use of metaphor in three creation myths: Japanese, Chinese and Australian aboriginal creation myths. Before going into the detailed analysis of each creation myth, I will first consider the most appropriate framework by outlining the concept of cognitive metaphor and its uses. I will also draw on historical and cultural background information of each creation myth to provide the context for my analysis. I will then employ the chosen framework to analyse the three creation myths and draw particular attention to the interplay of metaphor and language creativity. Finally, I will evaluate the effectiveness of the chosen framework by considering how far it enables me to interpret creation mythology in context. Cognitive metaphor theory Traditional approaches have regarded metaphor mainly as a rhetorical or artistic figure of speech (Johnson, 1989). Cognitive metaphor theory coming more recently has recognised metaphor as a persistent trait in human thoughts. It is based on the foundation that metaphor is not limited to literary texts but is a pervasive feature in all language uses (Jeffries and McIntyre, 2010). Lakoff, Johnson and Turner were the forerunners in establishing cognitive metaphor theory (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; Turner, 1987; Lakoff and Turner, 1989). In the classic work Metaphor We Live By, Lakoff and Johnson (1980) argue that metaphor is not merely a matter of language...
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