Anthem for Doomed Youth THEMES: • Sonnet – ironic • Betrayal of these people • Loss of lives • Funeral ceremonies being denied of these people • There is not glory at war – these people die at war • Lies are being told to them TECHNIQUES: • Rhetorical question at the start of the stanzas which engage the readers to take into account what is denied of these solders • Onomatopoeia – “stuttering riffles rapid rattle”: staccato rhyme mimics the sounds in a battle field, “shrill demented choirs of
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“A respectable Woman” by Kate Chopin Epithets: - unbroken rest - mild dissipation * deep satisfaction Metaphor: * the air that swept across the sugar field * silence melted for the time Metonymy: * footsteps crunching the gravel Antithesis: * He had been her husband's college friend; was now a journalist, and in no sense a society man or "a man about town," which were, perhaps, some of the reasons she had never met him. But she had unconsciously formed
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himself. Chesterfield tells his son he should push himself and strive to be excellent. Chesterfield tries not to dictate his son as a parent but to be his friend, because he knows how easy it is to not listen to your parent. Chesterfield also uses rhetorical questions to help and boost his son motivation to do better. In lines (35-41 0 Chesterfield tells his son he should use his education to come above any and everyone else “for can there be a greater pleasure than to be universal “ In conclusion
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connotation Connotation refers to the emotional associations and overtones related to a word. For example, a person who is underweight might be described as slight, or scrawny. "Slight" has a fairly positive emotional connotation, while "scrawny" has a negative connotation. paradox A paradox is a statement that first appears to be contradictory but actually states a truth. "History teaches us that we learn nothing from history informational text Informational text is non-fiction text that
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Epithet is a stylistic device based on the interaction of the logical and emotive meanings. It shows the purely individual emotional attitude of the writer or the speaker towards the object mentioned. Epithet is expressed by: 1) adjectives; 2) adverbs; Adjectives and adverbs constitute the greatest majority of epithets. 3) participles, both present and past; 4) nouns, especially often in of-phrases; 5) word-combinations; 6) whole phrases. The last two groups of epithets help the writer
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gave what ended up being one of the greatest speeches of all time. Using rhetorical questions, repetition, symbolism, personification, allusion, and parallelism, Patrick Henry urged the members of the Virginia Convention and the citizens of every county in Virginia to fight back against the British and regain their freedom and hometown. One of the strongest and most often used rhetorical devices that Henry used was rhetorical question. Many of these questions were asked so the members of the Virginia
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environmentalists call the conservatives “worst bunch of hypocrites”, while the opposing side repeatedly calls the environmentalists “wackos”. Regardless of the right or the left wing, each passage accuses the other of having a “hidden agenda”. Another rhetorical device used by Wilson to reveal the uselessness of the arguments is bathos; towards the end of the first passage, property owners are exalted people who “know their own land”, are caring towards animals and plants, and are the “real grass roots”
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2015/4/7 TED Talk Takeaways: 8 Ways to Hook Your Audience TED Talk Takeaways: 8 Ways to Hook Your Audience By Gavin McMahon on July 30, 2014 | 8 Comments “You will live 7.5 minutes longer than you would have otherwise, just because you watched this talk.” This was the claim that video game designer Jane McGonigal presented to the crowd during her June 2012 TED talk. As the camera panned over the members of the audience, their faces showed universal skepticism: Was this lady serious
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effective points for your position should be much stronger than the points against you so that your audience end up believing the thing that you want them to. What are the conventions? What you need to use when you write a persuasive writing: * Rhetorical Questions, alliteration, triads, reptition, emotive words and imagery, hyperbole * Refrences to you or we, us and our to draw the reader in and make them feel you are on their side * References to they or them to make it seem like the opposition
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speech in an attempt to inspire her audience to improve the lives of the less fortunate. Addams employs logic through hypophora in order to take a more scientific approach in conveying her ideas. Throughout the piece, the author writes a series of rhetorical questions and then follows them up with the answer Washington would have done
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