Adjective

divided introductory, intermediate and advanced levels. This article examined the sexism from nine aspects: the number of female and male characters, the number of female and male sentences, main characters’ qualifications, the image of occupation, adjective usage, activities, pronounce of animals, others and original written year of the textbooks. From the first and second results, as the text level goes up, more often male characters and sentences appear although both of appearance rate are…

My monologue is based on the topic of terror and isolation. My inspiration for this text sparked from the TV series ‘Lost’. The extreme emotions portrayed in the series intrigued me and spurred me on to write a piece of my own expressing these themes of terror and isolation. Another inspiration is an experience of my own from when I was younger and ended up lost in a large shopping centre. This was a moment in my life when I myself experienced these extreme, terrifying emotions. My monologue is…

cowardly, and doubtful Synonyms – bold, convinced, and fearless Paralyzed – Adjective; (a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement. Sentence: when you take one of these red pills you don’t just go to sleep; you’re paralyzed with sleep, and all night long you can’t wake, no matter what goes around you. Pg.84 Antonyms- able, and healthy Synonyms- disabled, helpless, stupefied, and inactive Vulnerable – Adjective; to be susceptible to physical or emotional attack or any…

Compare the ways in which Plath and Duffy use a range of imagery to express their ideas in Ariel and Mean Time Both poets, Duffy and Plath explore different ideas through the use of imagery. Duffy in poems such as Havisham and Valentine explores contrasting ideas of love, using imagery to show both the lasting effect of heartbreak in Havisham, and the realistic feelings of love and commitment in Valentine. Plath however uses imagery to express the peacefulness and euphoric state found in…

classic style, stripped of adjectives is bare, sharp and direct’ - Paul (1999, p. 3) admires Hemingway’s ‘short, tight sentences.’ -‘Hemingway’s fiction is strikingly simple and concrete. It is comprised of monosyllabic words arranged in short sentences.’ Available at: <http://www.pages.ykt.ru/miracle/hem.html> Internet accessed on 14-06-03. - ‘It is the noun that Hemingway emphasizes because nouns come closest to things’ (Waldhorn, 1972, p. 35). - ‘His adjectives and adverbs …are…

lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots of disappointed shells that dropped behind.” The adjectives such as “blood-shod” and “Drunk with fatigue” describes the exhaustion of the soldiers as they had to march on to fight. “As under a green sea, I saw him drowning . . . He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.” This quote contains a creative word choice of adjectives that describe the soldier’s helplessness; when Owen uses “drowning” to describe the soldier in the gas,…

American Dream in the 1920’s with his symbolism of “the green light” as well as with his abundant use of adjectives and adverbs, and his use of rhetorical devices such as polysyndeton, and contrasting language. “Wayside”, “persistent” and “secure” are three of the near twenty adjectives Fitzgerald uses in the two paragraphs from this passage. Fitzgerald’s choice of these specific adjectives and adverbs makes a more positive, hopeful tone such as in the sentence, “..he stretched out his arms…

the media usually use “catch phrases, pictures, special words, and metaphors.’’ Saleem (2007:136) agrees that the “image of a country” in the media is analysed through the language used by media, such as words, phrases, metaphors, sentences, and adjectives (Saleem 2007:136). Citing Alexander and Levin (Li and Chitty 2009:2) argue that “the images or stereotypes that a nation has of another depend on three structural features…

first paragraph, she used many adjectives in order to describe the lavish food she was served. She uses adjectives such as “whitest cream” and “sharp and the sweet,’ to show her extravagant types of food she getting. She also uses a simile, “brown spots like spots on the flanks of a doe.” Woolf uses a simile in order to show how elegant her food was, showing that the men had has more money to flaunt and use. In her second paragraph, she hardly used descriptive adjectives because women didn’t…

ANSWER: I must believe that the complexity of spoken language has a direct effect on the complexity of one’s ideas. The lack of the usage of various parts of speech diminishes the complexity of ideas, as one will simply be unable to community anything other than simple actions and objects. ANSWER: The Eloi communicated using only “concrete substantives” (also known as concrete nouns) and verbs. Concrete nouns are usually used in spoken speech to represent tangible objects that one can feel…