Firstly, the language is an obviously noticeable element. Mrs. Mitford uses a sarcastic tone in her writing that makes her story interesting and fascinating. For example, “Jones is now ready for casketing (this is the present participle of the verb “to casket”)” presents her sense of humor by using sarcastic tone. She defines something that obviously does not need to be stated. With a witty tone, she not only placed a huge amount of sarcasms in the story, she also makes the reading more pleasurable
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I. Plan A. Analyze the Situation 1. What is your general purpose? My purpose is to let Maribel Rivera know that she cannot be the speaker this year at the convention. 2. What is your specific purpose? My purpose is to keep a good relationship with Ms. Rivera, yet reject her offer. It is key to explain WHY we are rejecting her offer. 3. Exactly what do you want your audience to think, feel, or believe after receiving your message? To avoid offending Maribel
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though the speaker is addressing them directly. In “Girl,” Kincaid used a bit of first person point of view. The first person point of view reveals that there’s a second character involved in the story besides the speaker. This second character is the audience of the story. Furthermore, the second character’s thoughts are revealed to the reader. “The Girl’s presence is in who every admonition is directed to, and yet she is almost entirely absent” (Lithgow). The reader can infer that the second character
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brilliantly crafts his letter to the clergymen with an appealing use of tropes and biblical references. His language and tone compels all audiences to think about their values and stand up for them. In his letter, Martin Luther King Jr. bombards us with an abundance of biblical references that would stick to the clergymen. Martin Luther King Jr. is appealing to his audience and their beliefs. He compares his actions to that of the Apostle Paul who, “left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel
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Generation focus on wartime and its aftermath, a Gothic preoccupation with death and tones of hopefulness and pride through the use of tense changes, figurative language, repetitive structure, allusion and apostrophe. “Soldier Going To The War” elucidates both Lost Generation influences with its focus on war, and Romantic influences with its nationalistic theme. Le Gallienne offers parallel hopeful and prideful tones in this poem along with its parallel structure. The first two stanzas address a soldier
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fibers it is composed of. Like a web, a Pueblo story is composed of small details and ideas which overlap and interconnect and come together to form a larger meaning. This comparison allows the audience to understand the structure of a story without any technical explanations, since many members of the audience have yet to experience one. The spider web is a vivid symbol for the connection of details to create one whole, presented in a familiar and easy
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increased by 5%. Chua's purpose is to clarify why a Chinese mother's way to raising their children is better than a western parent's methods. She adopts a very authoritarian tone in order to scare her kids and to teach them that failure is not an option, to succeed and to be the best you need to be taught strictly and harsh. She doesn't want her daughters to be weak minded and sensitive to criticism so Chua being so petty and hurtful
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take this time to clarify my strong and weak areas in my presentation. My presentation was to the benefits of buying and receiving produce and livestock from an organic farmer, my specific purpose was to persuade and inform my audience what is really in the food they were buying that they thought was safe. My audience got to learn how the industrial food industry is generally modifying our produce and meat and the many benefits of supporting an organic farmer. As I analyze myself on my speech performance
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George Orwell who wrote for political purpose was for people to see history a little clearer. Not many people have a chance to read an allegory which for “Animal Farm’ is the Russian Revolution. In the three publications, the author’s political and artistic use was to understand rules according to the article “Politics and the English Language”. These thought provoking book, “Animal Farm”, as dependent on the revolution where these animals almost impersonate the dictators and working people which
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