Mary Amaral Ms. Masso URI Writing 12 August 2014 The Bell Jar- Elements Of Voice Elements of Voice: diction, detail, imagery, syntax, and tone. 1. Diction - Oblog (pg. 3) Diction can be defined as style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer. Diction or choice of words separates good writing from bad writing. It depends on a number of factors. 2. Detail – “I still have the makeup kit they gave me, filled out for a person with brown eyes
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Park until the release of the essay in 2012. This indicates a timeline from about 1945 until 2012. The narrator is using many adjectives and metaphors to describe the park and her connection to it, which gives the text an almost lyric and romantic style. “Unfortunately for me and my already full-blown love affair with Central Park…” (p.8, ll.69-70). In this essay Susan Cheever is using a lot of contrast, one og the biggest is the contrast between city-life and country-life. Contrast:
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Jude Cowden 12 Yellow How does charlotte Bronte create sympathy for Jane Eyre in the opening of the novel? The novel portrays a story of a young orphan by the name of Jane who has to live with her cruel aunt Mrs Reed and cousins at Gateshead Manor, where Jane is continually abused until she moves away to Lowood school and eventually finds happiness there. Bronte uses various techniques to create sympathy for Jane including: pathetic phallacy, symbolism, animal imagery, characterisation and language
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hairstyles. Being able to style hair in many ways and coloring the hair is part of the reason why cannot stop thinking about it. Styling hair gives me the ability to feel free and not limited to any hairstyle. If I was challenged to modify a trending hairstyle, I would gladly accept and give it my all. I felt that if a person achieved a different look on a regular basis they would motivate others to maybe try something new. It amazed me how the stylist would color and style a client hair. It was a
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“On Coming Home” – Joan Didion In this essay Joan Didion tried to compare and contrast life in the two separate places and realities she called home; The home of her birth and the home of her marriage which are totally different. Didion’s style is mainly that of storytelling. In her attempt to connect her two lives and show how difficult it was to reconnect to the home of her childhood, Didion takes the reader through a roller coster of rhythms. Note how she omits the use of conjunctions between
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Living Alone Together Help to tone and style analyse: Style: * Diction * Word choice * Simple or complex language * Concrete or abstract language * What does a word connote, and what does the word denote * Syntax/ sentence structure * Short or long sentences * Sentence fragments * Periodic or cumulative sentences * Simple or complex sentences * Detail * Amount of details * Great
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Profiling in our Society Today Have you ever felt targeted by police officials and looked at as a criminal? To be accused of a crime but not because you have done something wrong, but because of your ethnicity or religion. To be discriminated against not just by citizens with in our society but the security officials and by the government we as citizens are supposed to confide in and feel protected by. If you can relate to this question, then from one aspect you understand the emotional feeling
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Sarah Gledhill Tara Aiken English Comp 2 March 25, 2016 The Road Not Traveled Robert Frost uses his poem The Road Not Traveled to highlight the difficulties of indecision through the use of symbolism, metaphors, and vivid imagery. The Road Not Traveled is a compilation of such devices that allude to a person making a decision, standing on the edge of a forked road peering out at two paths and having to choose one of the two. One road leads to a path most take, and can be considered safer
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In the passage from The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, the narrator tells of an experience of a boy burying a wolf in the mountains, but there is some sort of unwritten connection between him and the wolf. The author uses imagery and syntax to illustrate the complex feelings of sadness that the boy experiences. Elaborate diction is combined to suggest a somber, grieving setting while allusions within the text indicate a reverence the boy has developed toward the wolf and the event. Personification
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In chapter 6, the narrator, whom we don’t know the name of, shows up to a meeting with a swollen face and a black eye. Because of his appearance it’s his boss who’ll do the presentation. While he does that, the narrator tells us about fight club and its eight rules. The first and second rule is that you don’t talk about fight club. The following rules are that when someone says stop, or goes limp, the fight is over, two men per fight, one fight at a time and no shoes or shirts are allowed during
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