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various acts of attention, the story examines the complexity of relationships and problem of miscommunication which can force a person to abandon even luxurious home. The problem of miscommunication is clear from the first sentence where a reader is exposed to tension between character’s…

personification in her poem to show readers an in-depth view of death. Death is in the form of a gentleman who picks up the speaker and takes her for a ride in a carriage. Most would assume that the reader would be scared to be in the same carriage as Death, but that is not the case. The speaker is actually very calm and they go about the ride in a calm and peaceful manner. However, they pass many sightings and end up in a not-so-peaceful place. In the first stanza, the reader is introduced to…

explains the story, he remarks that his “brother swore” after he brutally murdered the guppy (19). Hence, the brother clearly feels something about it. Second, the less amicable brother offers a little excerpt about the incident, trying to prove to the reader that he does not care about it. Yet, he still devotes some narration. He wants to confess, but he wants to be a “man.” Lastly, this brother is known to lie often, which corresponds to the second reason; this also connects to why he attempts…

throw away his past to move on completely. With the skillful uses of symbolism, metaphor, imagery, and narrative poetry, the author successfully leads the mystery and depth of the poem to the readers. To begin with, Baca purposely creates a diversion in the title and the first two sentences to surprise the reader later in the poem. As first, he believes that moving on is the right thing, “It would be neat if with the New Year” (line 1), which shows…

Not being able to know what the writer’s core values are and the writer telling his readers what core values are and why they are important isn’t persuasive in an argument because it essentially tells the reader that the writer has no idea of what core values are. It 's like trying to write about what are the rules to a game if the writer never even played the game in the first place. The reader would simply vomit out this piece of information because it has no merit to it at all. This is…

writing directly to the readers in second person point-of-view and trying to teach readers how to do something, such as talk to a hunter. Using second person point-of-view, shows that the narrator feels that her issues with dating a hunter need to be addressed and other people should know about the issues that come with dating a hunter. By using second person point-of view, the narrator tries to put the reader in her shoes which is why she refers to the directly to the reader as “you” throughout…

article is structured around her emotional story so that pathos enables the reader to emotionally connect and bond with her. The usage of metaphorical language, imagery, and first person aids the reader in comprehending her viewpoint and developing trust in her advise. All these rhetorical devices help the readers process and think about what the author is saying. The devices create pathos throughout the article making the readers more susceptible to believe her argument.…

They talked about Jimmy Cross’s love interest Martha. He explains how he burned the original picture of her and received a new one. He talks about how they ran into each other after the war. She said that she had not been married and never would. The reader might assume from Martha’s actions that she was leading Cross on because “there was no pressure in return” when he took her by the hand and then walked away as he said that he would still always love her. My opinion on the matter was that in…

“‘What greater grief can there be for mortals than to see their children dead (Didion 13).’” Joan Didion utilizes this quote from Euripedes in her memoir Blue Nights which addresses the death of her daughter, Quintana , and it reminds that reader that losing a child is considered one of the hardest things a person could ever go through. For Didion this loss was only made more crippling because of it’s close proximity to the death of her husband, which occurred less than two years earlier.…

The main idea in the essay My Mother Never Worked by Bonnie Smith-Yackel is that society/the system is designed in a way that discards or disregards housewives ' hard work. The purpose of this essay to relay the life of the writer 's mother so that readers can realize how hard a housewife really works, as opposed to the stereotypical belittlement that comes with being a housewife. The author effectively uses dialogue, flashbacks and irony to convey how women, especially housewives great efforts…