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She then tells the readers from her experience that popularity has nothing to do with what a person is capable of or what they own, but what is on the inside is what counts. Although this may be true for her, some people may think popularity has everything to do with what a person owns and nothing to do with the generosity a person has. This is biased because it is persuading us to believe Maya’s definition of popularity, even though the true definition is not mentioned. Readers are also…

While reading the “Little Red Ridding Hood”, one of the underlying message that was directed to children is not to talk to wolfs because you might become their meal. Little Red Ridding Hood was allowed to wonder in the woods to her grandmother’s house all alone and on her way she encountered a wolf who asked her several questions. Little Red Ridding Hood not knowing best told the wolf everything. Because of this Little Red Ridding Hood’s grandmother and Little Red Ridding Hood were both eaten by…

Robert Hayden’s sorrowful “Those Winter Sundays” demonstrates how the utilization of allusions, consonance, symbolism, and alliteration establish a dramatic and emotional effect. Beginning with the word “Sundays,” Hayden references Christianity, generating images of a resurrected son, sacrificed by his own father. Building upon the same tensions found in this familiar story, the speaker shares bittersweet remembrances of Sunday mornings with his father. Like the Christian story of God’s son…

At first glance, “The Lightning Bugs Are Back” by Anna Quindlen appears to be about justifying why she had children, but closer inspection reveals that the essay is really about experiencing childhood again. She uses rhetorical devices to make a shift from her surface purpose to the deeper meaning in the essay, such as Rhetorical Questions. At the beginning of “The Lightning Bugs Are Back” Anna discusses the relationship between her child and the lightning bugs. She says “this is why I had…

Valgardson uses situational irony, when the protagonist and the reader expects the man to get hurt or run into trouble by the ‘bad people’ because of their “jackets gleam[ing] with studs… eagles, tigers, wolves and serpents [on their] backs,” as well as the “double-locked” gates and “cracked sidewalks with ridges of stiff grass” (Valgardson) that made up the city. In other words, because of the images of the poor and messy area, the reader does not expect the protagonist to get hurt by the…

Hidden Clues “An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce, foreshadows the horrifying ending through a variety of literary techniques. Foreshadowing is an indication of a future event, which Bierce does by using imagery, paternal plot elements, and allusions. In this short story, Peyton Farquhar is in the process of being hanged for attempting to burn the bridge at Owl Creek; during his hanging he is dreaming of his escape back home. In Farquhar’s dream stage, Bierce foreshadows…

wants to set, by using phrases like “tranquil bay”. The poet captivates the reader by the calmness and serenity of the deep blue sea and the “Glimmering and vast…cliffs of England”. Continuing on into the poem, the tone is described to represent peace and tranquility. When he describes the air using the phrase,“sweet is the night air,” he gives the reader a figurative smell to depend towards. The author tells the reader to “Listen!” to the melody given by the rushing waves and the “grating roar”…

1 a) I would respond to Becky’s problem by saying that she is not justified. Becky believes in the claims of increased happiness due to the vitamin in the magazine article, however, this “popular Health magazine” does not indicate that there is any scientific or experimental backing to support its claim. The “popular” status could mean that there is the illusion of authority or even celebrity/ lifestyle endorsement, and in Becky’s perspective, she could be biased if Health magazine usually has…

The imagery to the poem "Red Wheelbarrow" (Williams, 1923), presents many images and strong feelings for a person to think about. But, first it makes me get the image of a farm tool that is needed for most every day jobs done on a farm, oh the number of times I've had to push a wheelbarrow to complete a task on the dairy farm I grew up on. This imagery takes me back to good memories that I had growing up on the farm, but it also has terrible memories as well, because of the amount of work…

How do you know it’s not a column, letter, or editorial? Give proof. First off, I know it is not a column because it is not a recurring piece of writing that has been included in a newspaper or article, this is an original writing. It is not a letter because it does not include “dear ___” at the beginning nor does it have a conclusion such as “sincerely”. Finally this is not an editorial because the article isn’t stating someone's opinion of what they think, they are giving facts, it's not a one…