The Use of Adjectives Charles Dickens is one of the best known and most read writers from the victorian-era. My initial thoughts of a Dickens’ novel, is length. Sheer uninterrupted length. Dickens used extensive, intimate and over descriptive language in all his writing, making sentences and paragraphs seem endless. Yet, I believe, it was a style that worked for him. Powerful adjectives, similes and metaphors are strongly associated with his writing style. Dickens’ description of Scrooge in ‘A
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Kids: Grandpa can you please tell us another of your stories? Grandpa: Again with you boys? how many times do i have to tell you this story? Kids: please Grandpa, One last time. Grandpa: ok fine, which one do u want to know Sam: vimy ridge. Arthur: No, no tell us the battle of Passchendaele Sam: no I hate that one. Grandpa: ok, ok calm down, i can only tell you one story tonight. Sam: can you tell us ypres then? Arthur: yeah i love that one, with all the Canadian Soldiers. Grandpa: ok guys for the last time here it is
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A Disappointing Occasion In "Birthday Party" by Katharine Brush, her use of juxtaposition and irony aide in producing a strong description of a sorrowful event. Throughout the passage, Brush uses juxtaposition to show the underlying ,earning of the passage. In the first few sentences, she classifies the woman as "fadingly pretty" insinuating that although once pretty, she no longer exhibits much beauty, making her mediocre in her physical presentation (Brush 123). Although the scene is presented
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War does not determines who is right, only who is left. In All Quiet on the Western Front, a historical war novel, by Erich Maria Remarque, war is described realistically and losses were revealed. Earth and nature play huge roles among the wars; they both have opposite uses. For example, earth is both protection and danger as they seek refuge in it down within the trenches as the shells explode on the surface of it. As Paul travels through the horror and destruction of war, he realized the comfort
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In the poem “Greasy Lake” written by T. Coraghessan Boyle the writer believes he is “bad”, bad in the sense of rebelling, smoking pot and doing things their parents wouldn’t exactly agree with. For example, the author says “courtesy and winning ways went out of style.” (425) which I take to mean, that being rude was consider cool. Along with that he also states “We wore torn up leather jackets, slouched around with toothpicks in our mouths, sniffed glue...” (425) Meaning that the author thought being
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Rhetorical Analysis of “On the Want of Money” by William Hazlitt Nineteenth-century author William Hazlitt argues in his essay “On the Want of Money” that money is not the root of all evil but an imperative aspect to a content life. To substantiate his beliefs, he uses prompt rhetorical devices and strenuous vocabulary to develop his ethical appeal in addition to a distinct structure to create the sense of a fast-paced situation which helps engage the reader and add a sense of legitimacy to the
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Cold Mountain: Tomi Adegoke “He had grown so used to seeing death, walking among the dead, sleeping among them, numbering himself calmly as among the near-dead, that it seemed no longer dark and mysterious. He feared his heart had been touched by the fire so often he might never make a civilian again” (Frazier 230). Inman is deeply engrossed in death due to the war. He starts to question why these men die and what they’re dying for. This mostly indicates that a numerous amount of soldiers have
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Homer’s The Odyssey is important to the history of literature, but there is one part of Odysseus's adventures that have interested readers since the book was released, the part where Odysseus encountered the sirens. These interested readers often make different versions of this excerpt, from books to short stories to movies. In this essay, though, the focus is going to be purely on a single poem by Margaret Atwood, “Siren Song”, and how this poem and the original text comparably convey the sirens
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After completing an excerpt from Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, it intrigued me. As you read he gives description of a tiny area barely on the map. Wording the town as an “simply aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by main-line tracks”. The use of his diction and imagery shows us the simple life, and that he feels even something so insignificant could rock this little railway stop. While reading the mind automatically paints a picture. It’s crucial for the author to paint your
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Insecurity and Self-Absorption When you realize how much easier you have it than everyone else than you can enjoy life more. Through the gradual realization of the insecurities that can cause self-absorption, you can learn to keep your own anxieties and fears in perspective. Jesse Andrews wrote the novel, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, with the purpose of describing a teenage boy who goes through high school with the feeling of not fitting in and the anxiety connected with making friends. While
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