Adjective

around, but I did get to look at the setup that is on the stage. The stage was a proscenium and it was a lot larger than Delta’s stage. A couple adjectives that describes the atmosphere of the theater is Lively, Playful and Joyful. I chose these because there was bight colorful lights on the stage. That caused them to make the atmosphere all those adjective, and they were playing up to beat music that made you think it was going to be a very happy play. For the program…

2.2.1.4. Empty Adjectives Studies approve that women used empty adjectives more often than men. However, Lakoff’s notion on the empty adjective is debatable. In a specific context-bound situation, empty adjectives might have strong meaning and in others very little. This comes to two assumptions, first is that women tend to discuss about their inner feeling, giving a condition where adjectives are overused. While men tend to talk about politics, sports, money and other masculine topics that do…

countries, and provinces. That is the consistency: it is in human nature to fight. However, no matter how the battle or time period differs, nature will prevail. In Carl Sanburg’s poem: “Grass”, the speaker effectively uses pronouns, interrogative adjectives, and imperative verbs to portray that grass will cover up humanity’s mistakes time after time. The pronouns in this poem present the tension between the grass and the people, which in turn exemplifies nature’s superiority. The grass…

doesn’t do in ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ but tried to capture the same tense atmosphere that Stevenson does by using flashbacks, letters and lots of adjectives and long sentences. Furthermore, I employed some of the same techniques as Stevenson such as explaining…

university, and that is the one piece of advice that was burned into my brain. It is so tempting to "tell" readers how to perceive your characters, or how the action of your story is progressing; it is much more difficult to "show" them. The use of adjectives, and adverbs even more so, is intimately linked to the “telling” of a story. How did he ask her? *Desperately*. How did she walk? *Casually*. It takes a little more effort on the writer’s part to think of strong verbs that could replace…

Sonnet 23 by Garcilaso de la Vega is one of the most famous poems, it focuses on a request to a young lady to enjoy the fruit of her youth before the passing time destroys it. Garcilaso wrote this poem in the second person, he shows this when he speaks about the maiden in the middle of the stanza. In which he expresses that she should take advantage of the moment before her age start to manifest on her. After researching, we can’t specifically say when this poem was written, but we can assume…

For example “Lapping their green-blue froth over grey / Transforming the boulders into sparkling black” (Rivera) the specific adjectives used to help emphasize the visual nature of the poem are “green-blue”, “grey”, and “sparkling black”. The connotation of the specific adjectives used to help emphasis the shape and form of the image. It also invokes the feeling of happiness due to this being a description of a happy childhood memory. It makes the reader…

during the war. This excerpt from his story specifically talks about his experience in a military hospital and on the frontline. The reader will notice that the majority of Hoffman`s memories are awful. Three adjectives that describe his experience are depressing, traumatic and gory. An adjective that describes Hoffman`s war experience is depressing. War is never considered a cheerful thing. Throughout this article the writer talks about his somber memories. One constant topic that is…

inspector arrives. The change of lighting effects the atmosphere because it brings a dramatic effect because the light was peaceful then it went hard because the family is being scrutinised to find characters imperfections. The word ‘hard’ is an adjective the importance of that word ruins the mode which makes the watchers wonder that characters will be questioned bit to bit and something will be unravelled. The lighting change is dramatic irony because the watchers know something bad is…

pre-modifying adjective ‘winning’ (13) first used to describe Bela’s charm, this is because it could also imply that she is a prize to be won. Additionally, the simile ‘dressed her up like a doll’ (32) shows Pechorin’s need to domesticate women to fit his own desires and suggests how Pechorin and Maxim Maximych believe a woman is only happy when she is obedient to her man. Her insignificance in Pechorin’s life is emphasized by the fact that he soon gets ‘bored’ (37) of her. This adjective…