Erin Ryan wrote an article featured in Spotlight in First Year Writing, called “Telling it from the Mountain: A Rhetorical Analysis of Fannie Lou Hamer’s Speech before the Democratic National Convention”, analyzing the rhetorical qualities of Mrs. Hammers speech in 1964. My notebook entry will use material covered in the class text “Write about Writing” to highlight what Erin Ryan used in the rhetorical analysis of this emotional speech. In the retelling of Mrs. Hamer’s speech, Erin Ryan uses
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The Dew Breaker by EDWIDGE DANTICAT Religion: “A ka is a double of the body, I want to complete the sentence for him --- the body’s companion through life and after life. It guides the body through the kingdom of the dead”. (17) Chapter 1 My favorite quote from chapter one “the book of the dead” is the following “A ka is a double of the body. The body’s companion through life and after life. It guides the body through the kingdom of the dead” because I feel that it has so much connection to ka’s
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The Lovely Bones: Passage Analysis #1 “The hail bent the stalks and drove all the animals into their holes. Not so deep beneath the earth were the warrens of the wild rabbits I loved, the bunnies that ate the vegetables and flowers in the neighborhood nearby and that sometimes, unwittingly, brought poison home to their dens. Then, inside the earth and so far away from the man or woman who had laced a garden with toxic bait, an entire family of rabbits would curl into themselves and die” (Sebold 22)
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In “Joyas Voladoras”, Brian Doyle’s message is that a person may choose to live their life in any manner they choose, but it is futile to try and completely hide or bury emotions. Many of Doyle’s emotions about feelings and hearts may stem from his experiences with his son’s heart issues. He was born with a chamber missing from his heart, so a purpose for writing this would be Doyle attempting to understand and cope with the problems his son faced. These emotions allow Doyle to open up to the reader
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Heller also points out about the presence of neniae (plural) even in the funeral rites of Imperials from the time of Augustus. The presence of neniae in Imperial funeral procession signifies the popularity of nenia, in addition, it shows the popularity it would have created. Heller suggests that nenia in singular, from the early Empire times, meant ‘carmen funebre’. Then the confusion in the later period is because of the meaning of the plural word had taken along the time. Therefore, for Heller
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During an exploration of war-related literature, this school year, the majority being anti-war statements, brought us to a letter written by Sandy Kemper. Within the letter written by Sandy, about his involvement in Vietnam, he shows us the contemptuous nature of war and conveys a hateful attitude favoring his surroundings. Kemper employs sarcasm, strong tone, asyndeton, and other sue of rhetorical devices, to tell "Mom, Dad, Shrub, the Egg and Peach", and in the aftermath, the rest of us, the truth
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In Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, the two main tones of Tom Fury’s character are awestruck and lost. “The lightning rod salesman’s smile faded,” (Bradbury 42) “The lightning rod salesman remembered to breath,” (Bradbury 42) and “She was as fair as this morning and fresh as tomorrow’s flowers,” (Bradbury 42) best show Tom Fury’s awestruck tone. Bradbury does this by describing how Tom Fury came across a shop window where he saw the most beautiful woman in the world (Bradbury 42)
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Egg Horror Poem What is an egg’s greatest fear, Laurel Winter the author of “Egg Horror Poem”, writes about the eggs expressing a form of fear, and showing the likes of Personification. The story also shows a series of Repetition which is repeated over and over, and Diction is also shown when the eggs make movement in their compartments. The story starts off with the eggs in the cold, dark of the fridge huddling in their carton. Which “in the cold, in the dark” (line 35-36, 44-45) is a form of
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Sun Animal: Buffalo Being ordinary, calm but bold, the buffalo is a nondescript animal on the plain. Ethan Frome obviously was one of the most ordinary person in a small village. “Even then he was the most striking figure in Starkfield, though he was but the ruin of a man.” However, he became “memorable”, because of his bold and tragical life. Plant: Dandelion Floating on the wind, the dandelion’s seeds never know where they will stop at or grow at; it is just like Ethan Frome’s love toward Mattie
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EL. Doctorow, late American novelist once said this about why writers use emotion in their work, “Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader, not the fact that it’s raining, but the feeling of being rained upon”. ‘Feeling’ in literature is simply how the reader reacts to piece of writing. Some authors are bleak and only write down words to form sentences on paper while other authors write in a way to make their readers react in a certain way by which it evokes ‘feeling’. There is no
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