Maya Angelou once said “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right” In the essays “On Going Home” by Joan Didions and “Once more to the Lake” written by E.B Whites are two authors dealing with their personal issues as they compares and contrasts they current life and past, which are vastly different. The way they uses description in this essays and the flow of events is very similar to the way that memories rush in when one returns to a familiar place
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DESCRIPTION is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. Each of the rhetorical modes is present in a variety of forms and each has its own purpose and conventions. Description is also the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story. Description as a fiction-writing mode Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse. Fiction-writing also has distinct
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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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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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Answer A 1. Give an outline of the views on the relation between wealth and happiness presented in texts 1 and 2 Text 1: Text 1 is written by David Brooks and it’s an op-ed column. He starts off by telling about Sandra Bullock’s life – she winning an Academy Award but also her husband being an “adulterous jerk”. He asks if anybody would trade publicity with having a personal life. He continues to happiness. If you have a successful marriage and you encounter a lot of personally setbacks
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Stylistic devices Repetition and Variation |stylistic device |definition |translation |example |effect | |alliteration |recurrence of initial sound |Alliteration |“The fair breeze blew, |to convey auditory images | |
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Speaker: Title: DJI Phantom 3 Specific Purpose: To Infrom the audience with this device Thesis Statement: Introduction * Attention-getter (quotation, story, rhetorical question, surprising statements, humor, etc.): The DJI Phantom 3 is one of the best drones on the market. * Reveal the topic: The DJI Phantom 3 records in 4k HD resolution * Motivate the audience (make the topic relevant and/or establish
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came their way”, due to the anaphoric repetition the author creates intensification, that states the problem – what in beautiful on the outside may be dreadful inside. Obviously, the theme of the work is reflected in the title of the story. The rhetorical questions (who but someone suffering from a guilt complex would want to much light to pour into the rooms?; Why be o intense about digging holes) give a detailed emotional description of the Crutchman's life. The world of things puts emphasis on
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townspeople as a judgmental, jealous mass in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The old, stereotypical, Southern Black accent is prevalent throughout the novel, allowing the reader to see the speakers as uneducated laborers. Their judgmental rhetorical questions relate their feelings of jealousy towards Janie, asking what a “forty year ole ‘oman doin’ wid her hair swingin’ down her back lak some young gal”(1) and other probing questions, silently comparing themselves to and judging her. Yet these
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concrete building at the time, at least 264 died.’ This fact provides the reader with something to believe and make them open their eyes to what actually happens beyond Australia. To plant a different aspect of thoughts into the mind of the reader a rhetorical question was asked. “Why should Australians be interested in this particular tragedy, to in the shoe factory fire that killed two dozen more on the same day at Lahore in eastern Pakistan?” This
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