Remembering Legendary NBA Announcer 'Hot Rod' Hundley Frank Deford’s article, “Remembering Legendary NBA Announcer 'Hot Rod' Hundley?” paints a vivid picture using word choice, sentence structure and tone, and a strong appeal to pathos. These elements combine to bring ‘Hot Rod’ Hundley to life. Deford chooses words that will make the reader laugh, while also providing a touch of emotion, after all, this is an obituary of sorts! He uses just enough sarcasm to show what type of person Hundley was while
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According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, a fascination is a state of feeling an intense interest in something. This feeling is expressed throughout the passage, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood and How It Changed America by John M. Barry. In the passage, Barry explains how the Mississippi river flows. Barry uses imagery, epiphora, and figurative language to demonstrate his fascination for rivers. In the beginning of the passage, Barry frequently uses words that show his great understanding
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As Mark Twain's conduit, Tom Sawyer embodies the image of what Twain believes society should be attempting to accomplish, a revoking of social stigmas and reinstating of strong morals. Twain fundamentally believes that the idea that some is superior to another based on color of skin or gender is absurd. Although he grew up in a society where having slaves was normal and women were expected to fit restraining roles, Twain was able to come to the conclusion that everyone deserved to be equal. This
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own climate to make Twain look bigger? Partly, it's that the one very good book now seems so very good a book that it would be mean-spirited to ask for too much more books like it. Hemingway's assertion that all modern American literature comes from "Huck" seems even more nearly true now than when he said it, back in the nineteen-thirties.” This is explaining why Mark Twain is such a titan in American literature, he has paved the way of all modern American literature. Every book from
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H. In his letter, Baldwin writes telling his nephew that he can accomplish anything he wishes with no limits. This demonstrates Baldwin is worried of his nephew and feels responsible for him. "There is no purpose behind you to attempt to wind up distinctly like white individuals and there is no premise whatever for their audacious suspicion that they should acknowledge you." This plea is so critical for his nephew to accept because he doesn't need his nephew to feel inadequate in such an unfair
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In order to create a witty remark or clever joke, one requires two things; a somewhat humorous topic and a punch line. Without these two components, a joke will most likely be unsuccessful. One can increase the power and humor of the joke by adding other elements such as irony, sarcasm, etc.; a true comedian however does not always have to make the joke obvious. If one is a true jokester, the potency of the remark speaks for itself. Just as one-liners require certain components to be successful and
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In paragraph one Frederick Douglass explains how he has finally lost hope and any sense of cheer, and now has the true feeling of being a slave. He uses many dark sounding phrases to truly put emphasis on how terrible his experience with Mr. Covey was. He really wants the reader to understand how horrible and dehumanizing slavery is. He explains that no weather prevented them from field work, it did not matter how late or how dark it was, they would work for unbearable amounts of time. That is when
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Learning to read and write by Frederick Douglass: The purpose of this essay is to explain how Frederick Douglass believed that knowledge was an avenue to freedom. Anyone can have freedom. Frederick needed to gain knowledge to have his freedom. His mistress and master prevented and stopped him from reading and writing. Also, his own mind was preventing him. Finally, he needed the time to learn how to write and read. Fredericks mistress and master both was against him learning to read and write. They
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Tim Shorey Hensley English 11/Fifth Period 06 February 2017 Part 4: Setting/Atmosphere The setting of Mark Twain?s short story ?The Invalid?s Story,? is a very cold box car traveling across the United States. The time the story takes place in is the late 1800?s. The train is heading for Cleveland, Ohio to Bethlehem, Wisconsin. The symbolism for the train is the longer struggle you have carrying on a lie. The story even shows that they eventually die, which is symbolic for a lie can get you in a
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, in my opinion, is a dull read with no actual purpose or point in sight, no moral to the story, The supposed twists at the end, particularly when it is revealed that the body they found in floating house off Jackson’s Island was Paps's, were predictable and dull. Tom Sawyer, the character from Mark Twain's previous story, was an utter nuisance. He was irresponsible and inconsiderate and made obstacles and more necessary strife for the ungrateful main
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