Accelerated Reader

Snow White was listening(102) carefully to the woodsman's message, as she was sensing(102), understanding( 102), evaluating( 102), and responding( 102), to what he was saying. Snow White understood what he said because she knew she was in danger. She responded by questioning what he was saying, seeing as, she was in shock and had not previously know her stepmother's intentions of murdering her. There were many different types of listening styles( 106) used during the conversation;Snow White…

In Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel successfully utilizes a variety of rhetorical devices to persuade her audience to feel and think a certain way, especially through the use of Shakespearean motifs. Mandel uses Shakespearean motifs to bring up the topic of tragedy and devastation to show how much people will miss from their old world―the simple, convenient things in life―after devastation hits. By emphasizing this message, Mandel is also able to show that through art and culture, humanity…

In “On the Subway,” by Sharon Olds, the author uses imagery and tone to convey her message of contrast between her and the boy she faces. First, she starts by describing his physical features, also using simile to compare his laces to a pattern of international scars. They are also inside a car and she continues to study him. The poem shows the differences between a male and female. Furthermore, her tone is quite passive but frightened because the speaker seems inferior…

“No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place,” wrote Anna Akhmatova as she reflected during Stalin’s reign of terror. Anna Akhmatova was a Russian poet known for her involvement in the Acmeism movement and her haunting depictions of life in Russia after the revolution. In the early 1930s, Stalin’s regime focused on drawing the country together through force and oppressive policies in order to…

Pictures Imagery gives you so much more insight to what the author is trying to say. Without imagery stories would be so much harder to understand. In the poem, “The Boy at the Window,” by, Richard Wilbur, we see many lines of imagery. Wilbur uses imagery to develop his poem by telling us of many different things that we can picture in our minds. In the beginning of the poem the author says, “The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare a night of gnashing’s and enormous moan.” (L3, L4) The…

Karleen Bradford`s “Coffee, Snacks, Worms” foreshadowing, theme, and symbolism are the three most significant elements of fiction that intensify the effectiveness of the short story. Firstly, foreshadowing add tension to the story which makes the reader want to read more to see how it develops. Foreshadowing first introduced in the beginning of the story with the italic font but the conclusion made a huge impact “There, in front of her, stood a dishevelled, disreputable, totally terrifying…

1. The narrator seems to be a young boy that is about ten years old. In the story he says, “the cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed” (Joyce, 322). This sentence in the story makes me guess the narrator’s age because kids that are around the age of ten are the ones always playing outside. During this age parents give their kids some freedom to go play outside with their friends until it gets dark outside. 2. I would characterize the boy’s relationship with the girl as them…

At the beginning, the author briefly explains his situation of buying and selling his cars. The author has the situation that everyone might experience at least once in a lifetime. The ways he describes his car makes the reader feel like cars are their lovely friend, “realizing that the familiar friend would be gone from our lives forever” (Stanley Fish, line 5). The title is a play on words, the author is torn in between a relationship of the cars they traded in and the new cars they got. “The…

Susan Cain’s employment of humor, explanation, and person stories, improve her speech by, conveying her message in a lighthearted, and memorable way. Susan uses humor and irony to make her speech more effective. She does this in a few ways. First, she describes the silly ideas that her nine year old self had of girls at summer camp as, “a vision of 10 girls sitting in a cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns” (Susan Cain, Online). Another representation of this is when Susan…

motivated her to help whoever is in need. Though witnessing the obliteration of Nicaragua’s environment, Hallie made a difference to the residents with her intellect. Her sacrifices and efforts would not be in vain. Despite her incredible feats, readers foreshadow her death from the beginning to the point where she was captured and killed by the…