p Types of Paragraph and Samples | English 1014-1 | | Define, Classify, Casual (Cause and Effect), Compare and Contrast, Example, Process Analysis(Directional and Informational) | | Marcus K August | 3/27/2012 | | Narration Paragraph Narration paragraphs are most frequently used in fiction and personal statements. As such, they will contain all necessary components of action development: protagonist, setting, goal, obstacle, climax and resolution. Writing a narration paragraph
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First and last name Schoenecker CCR 094 22 September 2014 Figurative Language Examples Your interpretations should include the quote, the author, page number, and explanation of how you interpreted the figurative language. You may type your answers directly into this document. This assignment will be typed and handed in as a hard copy and submitted to the D2L Dropbox. NOTE: To save paper, please delete the examples below before you print out your assignment. Example entry:
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Will Raspberry and her mother ever have a better? Raspberry mother tries to keep the neighborhood quiet and clean. Seems like she can’t with her lousy no good teenager neighbors, one of the neighbors shiketa almost killed her mother by hitting her in the head with a metal pipe. Raspberry is having trouble with a lot of stuff going on in her life like almost losing her best friend Zora over money she took . Then her drug addicted dad comes back in her life when she doesn't want him to. She still
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Week3 – Discussion 1 I found the point of view in the Persuasion is to get others to see things your way or to convince them that there is something that needs to be done or said. To get someone to think like you do. Both Persuasion and Argument are interchangeably, persuasion writing is to convince you to see things their way, and in general, where as argument is a specific type of persuasive that is based on logic and evidence. I found that the tone for Persuasion should be strong emotional
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Humorous Devices Pun - "The two pianists had a good marriage. They always were in a chord." (Hyla Hope Harder - Oklahoma) A pun is the humorous word usage where a phrase is used in such a way where the words relate in the context but the meanings are different but I then forms a play on words. This is a pun due too the play on words where it says the pianist were in a marriage which they weren’t they were just close, and the way they were in chord which is a piano term. Hyperbole - "I will
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Within the atmospheric poem, “Anthem for Doom Youth” by popular war poet Wilfred Owen, the harsh and melancholic nature of war is fully exposed. Owen makes excellent use of language, from and structure to further retell the horrors of war. Owen makes use of structural devices to even highlight the damaging context of war, “Anthem” the is a 14 line poem into two stanzas, the rhyme scheme differs slightly from a Petrarchan sonnet (ABABCDCDEFEFGG) however this is ironic as the general theme of a sonnet
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Figurative Language The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, has quite a bit of figurative language, which contributes to its popularity. Examples include figures of speech, symbolism, allusions, imagery, similes, metaphors, personification and hyperboles. These elements are of my group’s interest. The first figurative language example I’d like to explain is the figure of speech. Lee uses many figures of speech throughout the book. One example which captured my interest was on when Atticus
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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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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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