Rhetorical question Essays & Research Papers

Rhetorical Précis Norman Cousins in the essay, “Who Killed Benny Paret” (1962), analyzes that Benny Paret took chances when fighting and during one fight his body could not handle any more hits and Paret died. Cousins supports his analysis by using an anecdote, satire, and appeals to emotion. The author’s purpose is to get people to consider the severity of boxing and the harm it causes many boxers. The author writes in an emotion solemn tone for an emphasis on the effects of boxing....

Sarah Shilleh Sister Zainab AP English 14 October 2014 Rhetorical Devices: The Scarlet Letter 1. Anaphora: repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses. “…with the hot, midday sun burning down upon her face, and lighting up its shame; with the scarlet token of infamy on her breast; with the sin-born infant in her arms; with a whole people, drawn forth as to a festival…” (Pgs. 54-55) This is an example of the device anaphora because Hawthorne begins...

Questions for Discussion 7.) As a reader, who is a female, his gender bias does not affect how receptive I am to Emerson’s ideas. I believe that all of the ideas he states using masculine pronouns, are too applicable to women and girls. I can relate to and understand his ideas. I believe that men are no more intelligent than girls, or girls are no more intelligent than boys. We are equally intelligent and capable of most of the same things. In the third paragraph, Emerson states a variety of...

Welcome eveyone to the poetry festival-perspectives on Autralian cultural identity. I chose to present this concept through works of John Tranter. An amazing poet who presents his ideas about life through words, especially poetry. I will be using two of his poems. Debbie and co and backyard. I wil base most of my ideas on Debbie and co and refer to Backyard The poem Debbie and co is set on a public pool on a Sunday afternoon and backyard is based on a family or two having a barbeque in the...

Audience appeals and Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth in her speech Ain’t I a Women addresses the issues of women’s rights and racial inequalities at a Women’s convention in 1851. Truth’s purpose is to convey that women and blacks are equaled to white men and that they do not need to be viewed as less. She adopts a conversational tone to appeal to personal beliefs in her anti-slavery listeners. Truth uses appeals to maternal emotions, rhetorical questions, and allusions to the bible to aid her...

The Tipping Point: Rhetorical Analysis Throughout The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell explains to his reader his ideas about drastic changes in society, and how they seem to occur so rapidly. In this particular selection, Gladwell emphasizes the purpose of “connectors”, saying that they have a “special gift for bringing the world together (page 38)”. Gladwell states that part of the reason information or trends spread like wildfire is the presence of a specific group of people. They are called...

Amanda Marroquin Mr. Gonzales English III AP/DE – 1A 13 January 2015 What happened to Nature? The development of technology has caused the separation between humans and nature. Although, nature has been the primary source of living since the beginning of time many seem to have forgotten that nature has always been there to provide the necessities of living such as, oxygen, food, water, and medicine that helps people survive from medical complications utilizing natural supplements to create...

Com220 – Week 1 Assignment – Bias, Rhetorical Devices, and Argumentation The speech in which I choose to complete my review on was the “1992 Republican National Convention Address: A Whisper of AIDS” by May Fisher (1992) • What are some examples of bias, fallacies, and specific rhetorical devices in the speech you selected? For this question I would first like to address the question of fallacies as while the speech has to do with a serious topic, I found the tone of the speech to be...

Florence Kelley Timed Write In the times of the Progressive Era (1875-1910), all people – children, women, and men – worked to get more income for their families. Hence the name “progressive,” all people were engaging in business and needed more education for recently developed ideas. Florence Kelly, who was engaged though the hardships of child labor, presented an assertive and powerful speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association to preach her own thought and knowledge and to...

 Step-by-step Rhetorical Analysis 1. Identify the three elements of the rhetorical triangle. a. Who is the speaker? (education, ethnicity, era, political persuasion, etc.) b. Who is the audience? c. What is the subject? 2. What is the author saying about the subject? What is his/her assertion? 3. What is the author’s attitude (tone) about the subject? a. What specific word choice (diction) clues the reader in? b. What figures of speech are used? Does the imagery/analogies/allusions...

ilovekarlyhardinxoxo - AP Lepore B - P1D1. Page 1 of 2 Since the beginning of time, man has always relied on a close relationship with nature. It affected man in almost every way, and humans have depended on it for survival. Although, as our modern day civilization has began to modernize and thrive, our relationship with nature has slowly diminished. In the excerpt from Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv uses thoughtprovoking rhetorical questions, soothing nostalgia, and an anecdote in order...

Document Research Assignment Qian Lei Comm171-334 Sonia Senior-Martin The reason of choose “Smoking is good for my business” (1977 David Ginsburg p.33) and “You Are a Contract Painkiller” (1997 Maureen Littlejohn p.111). I choice two essays, because those two essays are concerning about health problems. They are very similar, but those essays have different theme ,I will talk about those essays about structure, style, subject, theme, ideas and so on. Now I will discuss about those...

Tanya Owens January 18, 2015 AP Language 3rd Period From Education Questions 1. What does Emerson mean when he says, “Nature loves analogies, but not repetition,”? Analogies is a connection between two contents. The natural learning process loves when you can connect two pieces together opposed to keep going over the same things just to make it stick 2. Why is the relationship between “Genius and Drill”, as Emerson explains it, paradoxical? ...

‘An individual may feel a strong connection to the environment which reflects their views on people, places and the world.’ ‘William Street’ and ‘The First Born’ are both based on the connection to the surroundings. ‘William Street’ focuses on Kenneth Slessors connection to the urban environment and its energetic atmosphere. ‘The First Born’ focuses on the Aboriginals and their connection to the land. In William Street Kenneth Slessor explains his love for one street. He uses repetition...

One of the first questions I missed was the very first question which asked about what the passage could best be described as. I originally thought it was more of a dramatic monologue. Once I checked my answers and reviewed the passage once more I realized that it was an objective historical commentary. I also got question #40 incorrect because I failed to see those terms as euphemisms. I thought they were nicknames used by the locals. The questions structure was slightly hard to follow, but it...

Micayla Arndt 3rd Hour “Barbara Lazear Ascher - On Compassion” Rhetorical Analysis Compassion is seen around the world. Or so it’s thought. Barbara Ascher questions whether or not compassion is real or if it’s driven by fear in her essay “On Compassion.” She takes an attitude that it is fear-driven, and tries to sway the reader to think as she does. Trying to sway the reader, Barbara Ascher starts her essay On Compassion with a story-like tone. This part of the essay feels fictional, and has...

Taxpulat 1 Firat Taxpulat 5 April 2015 Mrs. Williams, Period 6 English 10 Honors Social Instability In the essay called "Show Me the Money" by Walter Mosley the author informs readers of the capitalist society in America. Mosley does this by describing the difference of the lower class and the privileged class. By using rhetorical questions and establishing a tone the author successfully informs readers of America's capitalist society. ...

“from Why Read Shakespeare?” by Michael Mack Read the selection from the argument “Why Read Shakespeare?” by Michael Mack. Then, reread the lines indicated with each question below. Answer each question, citing text evidence. 1. Lines 1–13: Read the first five lines of the speech and identify the claim that Mack makes. 2. Lines 1–13: How do the rhetorical questions in this section set the stage for Mack’s argument and engage his audience? 3. Lines 16–20: Create a chart that lists terms...

Francis Gillet 2/7/13 Ap English 11 A letter to his son This passage is by no means a message of simplicity, and good intentioned writing for his son to be taken lightly. Chesterfield reflects his own values and morals in these short paragraphs, in attempts to remind his son of his responsibilities for him to “weigh and consider”. Chesterfield’s morals and values are clearly portrayed by his use of strategies such as understatement, contradiction, rhetorical question, and lastly he...

Brutus’s Funeral Oration Brutus used only three persuasive techniques in his funeral oration in Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar. Despite being regarded as a great orator, or speaker, he limited his speech to the use of parallelism, rhetorical question, and tone. As well as a combination of the three. Brutus began his speech with parallelism. He said, “…Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may...

Anecdote - whimsical - setting the scene (1) Using descriptive language to pull the reader into the painting (2) "quality of the draughtsmanship, the brush strokes in thin oils, had a Renaissance beauty, but the fearful and compelling thing about the picture was its modernity" Rhetorical Question (3) Describing her "safety zone", using books as a symbol (4) Discrediting herself (4) - ethos Rhetorical Question (5) Build up her credibility: ethos (6) Symbol of foreign city as artwork....

Maori to Pakeha by J.C Sturm develops an image of oppression and inequality between Maori and Pakeha. The language techniques of tone, rhetorical question, repetition, analogy and Maori language are all used to clearly illustrate the authors feeling of anger and support the dominant themes throughout the poem. Stanza one explores the idea of separation between Maori and Pakeha through a tone that that is accusatory and suggests anger. The first few lines using a repetition of referring to...

Choosing your words when doing a speech is very important. The words you choose could either make or break your whole speech. In most speeches, instead of memorizing the whole speech, you should outline it. You also should not memorize it because you write different than the way you speak. Sometimes you will need to speak off of a manuscript. Spoken and written languages have different benefits. Spoken language makes use of simple words, is more concrete, usually specific, makes greater use...

SPEECH ANALYSIS REPORT Adora Svitak emphasized that learning between adults and kids should be reciprocal in her presentation which is ‘What Adults Can Learn From Kids?’. Although she accepted kids learn a lot of things from adults, she asserted that kids have a lot of things to share with adults. She proved that her presentation is realistic by real examples and pictures. According to several criteria, I liked this presentation. Although little girl has some deficiency, I admired her and...

Our Babies, Ourselves In Emily Prager's Our Babies, Ourselves, published 1991 in Interview Magazine, she claims that we are all trapped in Barbie's world. "Barbie is not an appropriate role model for girls, because she is a man's ideal."She tells us that she recently saw the obituary for Jack Ryan in the newspaper. The obituary said that Ryan helped create Barbie. Prager then says that Barbie being designed by man suddenly makes a lot of since. Barbie looks like she was a Playboy bunny. She...

Describe at least one memorable use of language in the text. Explain how this use of language helped you to understand one or more important idea in the text. “Still I rise” a poem by Maya Angelou is about a black woman’s point of view towards a white person in the 1900’s. Angelou used various language techniques, rhetorical questions, metaphor, and similes to show us her thoughts at the time when she was being ruled over. Self-esteem was the reason that the poet wrote this poem in the first...

Analyzes of Speak with Style and Watch the Impact Carl Hensely wanted to improve his speeches by examining various speaking styles to enhance the impact of a speech. He examined how speakers developed organization; how they developed focus; how they developed their content with examples, quotations, and other types of support; and how they developed introductions and conclusions. Out of examining these speakers, he noticed that speakers make it a goal to reach out to the listeners so that...

Chief Seattle’s inspirational oration delivered to Governor Isaac Stevens in 1864 is an attempt to manipulate the whites to fairly deal with the Native Americans in regards with their land, despite their inferior status. Although the Indians were separated from their motherland, their spirits are everlasting. Chief Seattle accomplished his purpose through countless rhetorical devices, most notably through establishing his authority, rhetorical questions, and similes. Chief Seattle begins his...

2004 AP Language Exam: Lord Chesterfield’s letter to his son Teacher Overview Skill Focus Critical Thinking Remember Understand Apply Analyze Evaluate Create Close Reading Grammar Composition Reading Strategies Annotation Determining Audience Determining Author’s Purpose Generalization Inference Literary Elements Detail Diction Imagery Style Tone tone determined through...

Dear Boy Letter At the surface, the letter Lord Chesterfield writes to his son appears to simply offer his son simple sound advice with the intention to help his son. It seems that he is trying to give his son this advice in a friendly manner as opposed to a father giving his son advice. However, upon closer analysis of what Chesterfield writes, one can see how he is actually subtly reminding his son of his obligations and duties. Using strategies such as understatements, diction, and...

Edexcel – Social Networking Childnet International leaflet activity cards Match the examples to these language techniques used in the text. Can you then sort them into two types of technique: those which are biased and those which are unbiased? Comment on their impact once you have matched them up. Fact Negative language An interpretation of a law for social networking sites Positive language Warnings about social networking sites Rhetorical question Reassurances for...

Advice to a Discarded Lover by Fleur Adcock explores both pity and revulsion, through the use of figurative imagery; a dead bird, maggots and the remaining bones. They are an analogy of the dead affair. With the use of figurative language the images are seen, smelled and heard. An authoritative voice is created to advise and command attention, through the use of instructive language throughout the six stanzas. Personification, analogy, rhetorical question and the way a word sounds, are also used...

The two texts are multi modal online newspaper articles on the murder of Reeva Steenkamp by Oscar Pistorius. Text 1 “Pistorius as mysterious as the shooting tragedy” is from the Daily Republic and is written on 25th February 2013 by Gerald Imray who is working with The Associated Press. Text 2 “Oscar Pistorius case: The Blonde is the victim here, Blade” from the Telegraph is by journalist Allison Pearson. Whilst both texts are told in a first person view, Text 1 defends the South African...

Practice Task for Conflicting Perspectives * Advertisement for SBS television program Go Back to Where You Came From * Paul Sheehan's opinion piece You Call This Even-handed? Refugee piece is Strictly for the Gullible. Allow one hour for the task. View the ad for Go Back to Where You Came From twice. Read the article criticising the television program, Paul Sheehan's opinion piece You Call This Even-handed? Refugee piece is Strictly for the Gullible. Answer the questions below,...

5 – Paragraph Poetry Devices Analysis Essay The poem “Holy Sonnet #10” by John Donne is one of the most respected forms of poetry, one of the most difficult to compose and one of the most inspirational to read. Donne uses personification, metaphor and rhetorical question to demonstrate the deep personal meaning of the poem. Donne writes passionately about his feelings towards death. Donne has decided to include these three literary devices in his poem to create a more dramatic effect for his...

Question: “How are significant aspects of change reflected in Tan and Marsden’s picture book ‘The Rabbits’” John Marsden and Shuan Tan successfully convey the emotional and physical changes to Australia during the British settlement in their picture book ‘The Rabbits’. Tan and Marsden recounted the events as an allegory (in which the indigenous are possums, a native animal, and the British are represented by rabbits, animals carrying connotations of destruction and immorality), utilising...

lisa Nguyen Ms.Nys Pre-Ap English II / 4th September 4, 2012 Rhetorical Analysis Leader of his native tribe, Chief Seattle, in his persuasive letter to President Pierce, illustrate his mentality on how sacred the land he lives on is to him and to his people. He tries to gain President pierce attention on the fact that the two men have different views on what the land is. Seattle defines the land as his past,present and furture,but to Pirece it is mearly just land to use for the present....

The writer’s main point is that superstitions are highly overrated and can be proven to be fake via statistical data even though it is believed by most. This piece entitled “the leap year superstition” is a descriptive piece. It involves the collection of data via surveys, interviews or the internet to help show that superstitions are overrated and can be proved to be false. The writer gives a great analysis via the use of statistics, rhetorical questions, opinions, vocabulary, and etcetera....

OL’ HIGUE Abigail Palma Delano Brooks THE POET – MARK MCWATT • Mark McWatt was born in Georgetown, Guyana on the 29th September, 1947. In 1966 he attended the University of Toronto where he took special courses in English and Literature. He also enrolled at the University of Leeds to do a Ph.D. in English. He is currently Professor of West Indian Literature and Head of the department of Language, Linguistics and Literature at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. McWatt’s academic...

I think that journeys are a really important aspects to all of our lives because they apply to everybody, once a journey starts you cant escape it, all journeys big and small can be unpredictable but all have a positive aspect of being a learning experience. Today’s speech will focus on imaginative journeys and how I have used three different perspectives to develop the concept of a journey. Imagination refers to a persons mind forming images or concepts of external objects not immediately...

Psalm 27: A Psalm of David Psalm 27 comes to us in the middle of the book of Psalms. Psalms is like a book of poems. These scriptures paint a picture and gives us hope, strength, or informs us of God’s love whenever we need some encouragement. Psalm 27 is entitled “The Lord is My Light and My Salvation” and hails from story of David. This Psalm is a Psalm follows a pattern that goes back and forth between praising the Lord, and crying out to him for help before ending with a strong...

Spoken language is the study of understanding how we speak and how we change the way we speak depending on who we’re talking to – adults, people our own age etc. Language is developed through our culture, identity or even the environment we are adapted to. Spoken language is used as communicating different emotions to one another whether its’; love, hatred or annoyance. One of the many aspects used in my household is use of questions. Myself my mother and sister tend to ask more open ended...

In a journey through life, people have certain expectations of how they would like to live their lives. Most citizens of modern society strive to reach a certain level of success and acceptance. It could thus be said that we likely have a dream we hope to achieve. In "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)", Langston Hughes makes use of powerful sensory imagery, figures of speech, and rhyme to show the emotions created when a dream is deferred, or not achieved. Hughes uses rhetorical questions with...

Anya Moseley Period 3 Out of the many poems we’ve analyzed throughout the week, one particular poem that stood out to me was “The Thief,” by Abraham Crowley. This poem interested me first because the whole idea of the poem was written to be a metaphor. To begin, the title, “The Thief,” makes the reader first and foremost predicted the poem to be one of despair or deceit as the word has a negative connotation to it. Many readers, just as I did, believed that the poem would have a sorrow tone....

William F. Buckley, JR. “Why Don’t we complain” first appeared in Esquire in 1961. In this essay Buckley aims to convince his readers that America is too lazy to even mention their own predicaments. He then goes on to explain Americans passive acceptance of circumstances. In doing this he uses several anecdotes based on his past, using careful diction and to keep his audience engaged he sprinkles in rhetorical questions. Buckley opens his essay with a personal anecdote describing the...

Chris Mann – Cynics This essay will critically analyse Chris Mann’s Cynics, it will discuss the poem’s subject matter and message, and pay close attention to the relationship between the poem’s content and form, how Mann’s language, imagery, tone use of rhetorical questions contribute to the poem’s effectiveness. This essay will also explore how an awareness of the political context out of which the poem arises, helps the reader appreciate its significance, meaning and power as a ‘critique’...

Poets employ language techniques to influence and manipulate the emotions of their readers. Wilfred Owen creatively and successfully paints a picture for his audience about the battling lives of young soldiers who were lured into joining World War One. His poems deliver the fears, the courage and the manipulation of World War One experiences through themes such as loss of identity, brutality of war, repo cautions of war, reality of war, sense of sacrifice and dehumanisation. Wilfred Owen employs...

Belonging is not an easily identified term. It is an inherent human condition in which we strive to feel an unconditional bond of security, and is essential in confirming our identity and place in the world. This connection can be acheived through a reciprocated understanding between people, their identity and their surroundings, in which the seed of understanding, nourishes a sense of belonging to grow. But at what cost? Belonging and identity are two words which go hand in hand, but to...

The message Abbey was trying to convey in the speech was that peace is not war but war is used to create peace. The purpose of Abbey’s speech is to explain her concept on how peace is the reason of wars. Throughout many techniques and rhetorical devices, Abbey has shown this referring to the poem Five Ways to Kill a Man by Edwin Brock and George W Bushes’ speech on 9/11. Abbey also questions that if this is the concept of war, to create peace, then is war really necessary? I think that the...

Ancestors by Peter Skrzynecki REFLECTION The poem Ancestors by Peter Skrzynecki is a excellent example of belonging and expresses his feeling of not belonging in his family. The poem presents a series of rhetorical questions which reflects on a dream Skrzynecki has had or is having and what he believes the meaning is. We could deduce from this poem and its use of present tense that the dream is a recurring dream about these vague images of Ancestors and how Skrzynecki is desperately trying to...

Essay: how an event is represented impacts how we come to understand it better ? Thesis Statement: → Ones emotional journey through an experience from a past historical event often shapes individuals into how they are in the future INTRO : Ones emotional journey through an experience from a past historical event often shapes individuals into how they are in the future. The emotional impact of these events can be representing and recorded in various ways, such as within the Smithsonian...

William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies presents significant issues relating to the concept of conflict. Through analysing characterisation and symbolism it is evident that conflict can be destructive to social order. The Black Eyed Peas music clip “Where is the Love?” portrays the damaging nature of conflict, resulting in chaos, by the use of binary oppositions and rhetorical questions. The combination of Lord of the Flies and “Where is the Love?” shows the viewers that conflict can be...

Sonnet 30 by Edmund Spenser figurative devices theme My love is like to ice, and I to fire: simile comparing his love for her to fire, hers for him to ice How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat? Rhetorical question relating to her increasing coldness towards him the more he desires her Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is...

ABORTION Abortion has always been a heavily debated topic in the media the two articles “The anguish of a female choice” by Jill Singer and “Reaping what we have sown- Abortion Decriminalised” by Pastor Danny Nalliah, President of Catch the Fire Ministries (The Australian Newspaper, 24th October 2008) are both very different as Singer is for abortion and Nalliah is pessimistically against it. Each writer clearly has strong views about for and against abortion. The articles both obviously are...

Wilfred Owen successfully creates the truthful and terrifying image of war within his poems. The loss, sacrifice, urgency and pity of war are shown within the themes of his poetry and the use of strong figurative language; sensory imagery and tone contribute to the reader. This enables the reader to appreciate Owen’s comments about the hopelessness of war and the sacrifice the men around him went through within his poems, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est.’ and ‘Futility’. ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ reveals...

In the "Speech to the Virginia Convention" by Patrick Henry there were a lot of things that made his speech very persuasive. He used many different methods to compose this into being and effective speech. These methods include rhetorical questions, imagery, and metaphors. The first and most influential methods that Henry uses are rhetorical questions. An example of this is when he says "Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?"88. He really gets the...

In his speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses, Patrick Henry tries to persuade the members that it is time to take up arms against the British. Targeting both the hearts and minds of his listeners through emotional and logical appeals, Henry uses rhetorical questions, figurative language, and repetition to convince them that it is time to take decisive action. Henry uses rhetorical questions to make them think of the decision they should make. Some of the rhetorical questions are “Why stand...

Analysis of "The Tyger" In "The Tyger" William Blake ponders the creation and existence of a metaphorical Tiger. Through several rhetorical questions and illustrious details Blake wonders who created "The Tyger", and if the same person also created the lamb. Blake uses "The Tyger" to symbolize evil in the world, and to question the creator's intentions with it. "The Tyger" is composed of six stanzas, which consists of four-seven word lines; the lines are short and contain about seven...

HOW IS THE CONCEPT OF BELONGING EXPLORED IN THE TEXT, THE SIMPLE GIFT? There are barriers and facilitators to belonging. Groups that support belonging are family, friends, school and even your culture. To not belong you begin to feel alienated, anxious and misunderstood. In the verse novel The Simple Gift, Steven Herrick’s has portrayed the ways in which a character can relate to many individuals in today’s society. The way in which the poems interact with us is through several techniques...

William Blake structured his poem with six Quatrains, or four line stanzas. In these stanzas, he uses a variety of rhyming couplets, repition, powerful imagery and alot of rhetorical questions to enhance the piece. He begins the first quatrain with “Tyger! Tyger!burning bright.” Right away he uses repition to catch the reader’s eye. The word “Tyger” is a symbol of all creation. In his poem, “The Lamb”, he uses the Lamb as a symbol of innocent mankind, where as the “Tyger” is a much more wild,...

In this essay i will be writing and explaining how spoken language is used and adapted to influence the jury in the closing argument that convicted Louise Woodward. The prosecutor uses a variety of features in this argument to convince the jury persecute Louse Woodward. I will be going through these techniques and explaining why he uses them to influence the jury. Gerard T Leone Jr was the prosecutor in the case of the death of Mathew Eappen. He uses repetition in the first section of the...

My Last Duchess * How are feelings shown in my Last Duchess? * What is concealed and revealed by the Duke? In the poem My Last Duchess, a large variation of feelings and emotions are expressed. They are expressed using various techniques, such as alliteration, rhetorical questions and many more. I am going to explain how feelings are expressed in parts of the poem and also what is shown and revealed by the Duke in My Last Duchess. One of the main feelings which are portrayed in the...

Andrew Ebratt Mr. Coulombe English II Legal Suffering The Percent of public who support euthanasia for the terminally ill or on life support is approximately 86 percent. Despite this, euthanasia or assisted suicide is only legal in four states in the US: Montana, Vermont, Washington, and New Mexico. Because of the illegality of euthanasia in most places, it is a wide spread crime in most cases outside these states, although, these terminally ill patients are suffering terribly without cure....

A very surprising science fiction story that reverses the werewolf idea. A wolf turns into a man and scares the living daylights out of his wolf wife and wolf children. What makes this story amazing is that LeGuin tricks us, throughout much of the story, into believing that the tale is about humans. She teases us with issues of child abuse, male-female relationships, life in a small town, and sisterly devotion, but she upsets our expectations, forces us to ask questions, re-read the story, and...

Aussie Hair Product Magazine Advert Essay The genre of this text is an advert aimed at a predominantly female audience with the purpose of informing them about their hair care product and persuading them to buy it. The text uses informal and uncomplicated lexis in a light hearted tone to seem friendly and inviting to the reader as well as keeping it simple to read. The text includes many semantic fields such as appearance (hair, dress and stilettos), star signs (Pisces and Capricorn) and Party...

Figures of Speech Resemblance A. Simile - A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like" or "as". 1) They fought like cats and dogs. 2) She is as thin as a toothpick. 3) Geoff is handsome as a prince. B. Metaphor - A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels." 1)...

Analyse how language used intensified the message of the written text(s). In both poem ‘Does it Matter?’ and ‘Survivors’ the poet, Siegfried Sassoon is able to intensify the message of the non-combatants misunderstanding of the realities of war. This was by Sassoon using different language techniques such as rhetorical question, repetition and onomatopoeia. Rhetorical question is used to intensify the message of the non-combatants misunderstanding of the realities of war in the poem ‘Does it...

Antigone and MLK Compare/Contrast Essay Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Antigone are fighting injustice. Antigone is fighting the unfair edict of the corrupt and prideful king Creon. Mr. King is fighting the racial intolerance of a generation of Americans. Both Antigone and Martin Luther King Jr. defend there actions in the struggle against injustice; although both argue there points, Antigone takes a more defiant stance, while Mr. King uses a more analytical approach in his argument....

Discuss the techniques used to convince the reader to adopt a particular way of thinking about text one and text two? The feature article, “the Overprotected kid” written by Hannah Rosin published in the Atlantic uses the techniques of Descriptive language, anecdote and factual evidence to persuade the reader to adopt a particular way of thinking. The feature article poses the theory that children of the 21st century are missing out on childhood development and experiences due to the increasing...

Feliks Skrzynecki The poem Feliks Skrzynecki expresses the emotional challenge that an individual confronts when coming to terms with their own cultural identity. Through the relationship between the persona and his father, the poem illustrates the cultural rift which has emerged as a result of their differing experiences. Despite the persona’s heritage, he is incapable of developing a strong connection with his culture and thus he feels unable to share the same positive perceptions upon life...

In George and Lennie’s relationship George takes the parent roll and treats Lennie as if he is a child. As they are talking about going for the interview for the job George exclaims “Now when we go in to see the boss, what you gonna do?”. This shows that he is checking up on Lennie and making sure he has understood instructions, which is like what parents do to their children. This shows that Lennie is very much like a child and has to be told many times about information, which leads on to...

Alexander uses various aspects of the language to represent herself, "a woman cracked by multiple migrations." The diction, imagery, and figurative terms that Alexander utilizes create a clear picture for the reader of a woman who is questioning her life and what might have been. There is an extended metaphor that runs throughout the piece that compares Alexander to something fragile and cracked. Words like "splintered", "shards" and "fractured" imply glass and all of its frailty....

The purpose of the memo is to summary the article Six Ways to Grab Your Audience Right from the Start and the perceptions that I learned from it. It is vital that the first moments of your presentation grab your audience attention. Not only does a great introduction provide an overview of what will be discussed, but it should also convince the audience that your presentation would be relevant. There are six ways to grab audience attention. Summary of Main Points „X Make it personal Never...

English Belonging Belonging has the potential innate ability to demean the human experience, paradoxically having the ability to enhance the experiences through life. Maslow believes that belonging is a necessity for every individual, even more so than confidence, achievement and self-esteem. Recognition of similarities and differences can bestow a sense of belonging but also potentially boycott diversity and change. Belonging as a potentially positive force is recognized in the poet’s...

Language analysis In the opinion article "One too many" that was published in the herald sun band written by Fiona McCormack, the authors main contention was that the government should support improving the system response to family violence. Serious and concerned tone was used with persuasive techniques such as evidence, rhetorical question and inclusive language to persuade the reader to agree with the authors viewpoint. A serious and concerned tone is used by the author to give...

Kelsie O’Brien Ms. Julia Salce AP Language and Composition 3 October 2012 Finding True Compassion In human society, man is surrounded by those less privileged, those in a state of desperation. In her piece “On Compassion”, Barbara Ascher describes brief scenes that capture the basis of transaction between the helpless and those in a position to give help, arguing that the only way society can achieve true compassion is by truly identifying with the suffering of others. Ascher observes...

‘Interpretations of texts can shift and change with time and place’ Considering your time and place, reflect on the ways in which context has shaped your critical interpretation of the prescribed texts and how your understanding of rhetorical devices have led to your appreciation of the speeches. Throughout time society has been presented with very unique and moving leaders who have successfully delivered speeches that will remain timeless and invaluable due to their powerful themes...

 Rainbows End Pg 139-147 1. Quick plot section summary. Starts out with dolly looking to buy linoleum. Dolly walks past the cork trees and sees her cousin there who invited her to a party, which she rejects. Nan is not happy that Dolly walked past the cork trees. Errol arrives to talk to Gladys about the encyclopaedias but she’s not there so he stays to talk to dolly. They talk about their futures. We find out papa dear is in WA doing gods work. Dolly brings up a job opportunity which Gladys...

The Power of Man In Antigone, by Sophocles, a young woman tries to respect her dead brother and bury him accordingly, even though it is against the law because her brother is considered an anarchist. Creon, the king, punishes her and meets a series of bad events. Sophocles uses a series of odes to help push his point across. In Ode I by using personification, imagery and rhetorical questions Sophocles reveals to the reader that man is powerful but cannot stand against death, and man needs to...

Gabrielle Leslie AP English May 5, 2012 An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page Robert Pack’s “An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page is established through various literary techniques that contribute to the poem’s meaning. Pack’s use of imagery and rhetorical questions gives the poem something to rely on to carry its story. The use of literary techniques exclusively defines the poem and through that, the reader can understand the underlying message behind the sonnet. Throughout the entire...

William Blake (1757-1827) was born in London, England. At a very young age Blake displayed a very high amount of creativity. Not being able to find an education passed a drawing school; Blake began an apprenticeship when he was 14 as an engraver. His life as an engraver actually played a big role in how his poetry got published. In 1789, Blake published a book called “The Song’s of Innocence.” His most famous poem in this book was titled “The Lamb.” “The Lamb” is based on a Christian view of...

William Blake: The Tyger analysis To understand "The Tiger" fully, you need to know Blake's symbols. The title seems to be quite simple. It lets us know that the poem is about a tiger. So, we expect it to be just that, about a tiger. However, as we start reading, it becomes clear pretty quickly that this is not just any tiger. It could be a symbol Blake uses to make a far deeper point than something like tigers are scary. It is one of the poem of his collection named: songs of experience....

THEME The poet explores the relationship between cultural identity and language. When you speak a language you also learn its culture. Lines 19 and 20 sum up the theme. Which language has not been the oppressor’s tongue? When another country is the conquerer, that country brings its language and culture to those who are conquered. SUMMARY ‘A Different History’ is in two linked parts: lines 1-18, then lines 19-29. The first stanza draws the link between western and Indian culture as...

Parents are almost always among the most influential people in a person’s life. They often become the ones who contribute the most to their children’s lives by molding them into individuals who share the same beliefs and attitudes as their guardians. Through his letter of advice written to his faraway son, Lord Chesterfield reveals his own personal values that he attempts to pass on through the use of parallel structure and figurative language in his correspondence. Chesterfield starts off...

Article Response In Chris Middendorp’s article ‘Why myki is the best ticket we’ve ever had,’ Middendorp uses techniques such as evidence, appeals to fear and rhetorical questions in hope of convincing the readers that myki is the best form of ticket in comparison to past public transport ticket ideas. Middendorp emphasizes his argument that myki is the best ticket by including statistics and evidence to prove his point. Middendorp uses his evidence in comparison when speaking about the...

The Tragedy of Brutus After the murder of Julius Caesar, Brutus sets out to explain why the conspirators plotted against Caesar. He is there to shift the crowd to support the death of their beloved leader and to show them the good things that will result of Caesar’s demise. Brutus knows that the crowd is not on the side of the conspirators, so he knows he has to be cautious of how he gets their support. Brutus is worried about his public duty and is prepared to act for the common good of Rome....

Dramatic Appeal In Two Famous Speeches "We must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!" Emotional and logical appeal plays a great part in the "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" and the "Speech in the Virginia convention". The emotions in both of these speeches bring them to life by the use of repetition, rhetorical questions, and imagery. Patrick Henry and Jonathan Edwards both apply similar persuasive techniques, but they differ in the type of appeal to their audiences. "Sinners in the...

Girls Can We Educate We Dads? Diction. “Girls can we educate we dads” is a poem written by James Berry, a Jamaican poet in the 1900’s which speaks about a girl who criticizes her dad’s stereotypical views about girls’ behavior and thoughts. The main message or theme that the author is trying to send to the reader is that involving stereotyping, generalization, and sexism and how these thoughts are present in many men all around the world yet are not true. This poem consists of many...

"Ode to Autumn" does convey a "oneness with nature" through sensuous images and techniques. Alliteration, personification, imagery, similes, rhetorical questions, enjambment and positive connotations contained in this poem are all techniques that add to this idea. The alliteration in the line "mists and mellow" adds to the calming imagery represented in this poem. It creates a soft and somewhat tranquil tone. Another example of alliteration is "winnowing wind". This example also creates a...

Shakespeare and Wilfred Owen expatiate on the common themes of manipulation, betrayal and conflict which arouse “vaulting ambition”, tremendous violence and great empathy within both the Elizabethan/Victorian audience and the modern day audience. Both writers explore how conflict can lead to both self-realisation and psychosis. Wilfred Owens “Mental Cases” depicts his personal viewpoint on the war and the government, and at the same time challenges society, religion and faith. Similarly,...

Hughes' Harlem - A Dream Deferred Sometimes his poetry is simplistic and degenerates into a nothing more than whining, but other times he waxes quite profound, and in all cases he is worth studying. A poem that students often encounter in their classes is “Harlem: A Dream Deferred,” from his Montage of a Dream Deferred. The following discussion analyzes Hughes’ “Harlem: A Dream Deferred” in terms of theme and literary devices; then it offers a commentary to help the student understand some...

The Adoration of Jenna Fox- Essay Would your conscience be clear knowing that you illegally modified someone to save their life? This choice was made by parents Claire and Mathew Fox. The Adoration of Jenna Fox tells the story of a parent’s hard decision to genetically modify their daughter Jenna with BioGel. With this major decision, comes many side effects, including the loss of most her memory, therefore she questions what it is to be human. This essay discusses the effect on not only...

Is Ignorance Bliss? Elie Wiesel was victim to one of the most tragic and horrific incidents of the twentieth century, the Holocaust. He was one of few lucky ones who escaped the camps alive, while his family was part of millions who were not so lucky. Years after that, he became a journalist and eventually was convinced to finally write about his experiences with the Holocaust. The result became one of his most famously publicized works. The book, Night (English translation version), only...

Aesthetic features Alliteration Imagery * Metaphor * Simile * Symbolism Personification Irony (must do) Motifs (repeated theme)*** Eg Dumby was my best friends and I will miss him Rhetorical question ** why has Dumby been taken from us? Representations** Provide comfort, allow people to express grief. Do not take people's grief and turn it into rage. Negative impact on community Acknowledgement and of situation We are all the same people, loosing a life is not worth it...

Write approximately 250 words stating what significant idea(s) are explored through this text, and how. Use quotes to support your points. The poem, "Solstice Poem," by Margaret Atwood is about a mother sharing her thoughts and asking herself how to raise her daughter well so that she will be able to look after herself when she is older. The 3 main ideas recognized in this poem are the innocence of her daughter/children in general, the protection mothers feel the need to give to their...

English assessment Distinctive voices are used create meaning and change which explores aspects of human experiences. The texts examined are Severn Cullis Suzuki, 9th Earl Spencers Eulogy for Princess Diana and Pink, Dear Mr President. The voices in these text include and environmental activist, voice of the innocent, grieving brother, everyman, lobbyist and remonstrator. All these voices have the ability to change societies view on an issue. The composers of these texts have had human...