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breaks and lay ups, the speaker intends to convey the visual image of sneakers. Mercury’s Insignia is connotated for Nike shoes. By including this term, the speaker was able to transfer the motivation and hard work of the basketball players onto the reader. Another example of a connotation is bad angels. According to lines 3-4, the speaker says,…

If everyone spoke in a monotone, there would be no true understanding of ones feelings. Everyone who be left in the dark and clue less about what everyone else truly felt. Tone is writing is used to help convey complex ideas in order to help the readers or audience take into consideration how the writer or poet truly feels about the topic or situation. Throughout the poem, Ulysses’ tone helps to convey his complex response to growing old to his audience. Ulysses opens his first stanza with a…

Coming-of-Age “Powder” Analysis In the short story "Powder" written by Tobias Wolff the protagonist, a young boy, Criminy psychologically matures during a skiing trip with his spontaneous reckless father. The pivotal point in the story is when Criminy drags one of the sawhorses aside so his father can drive the car through, then puts it back before they speed down the dangerous roads to make it to Christmas dinner on time. Criminy for the first time in his life broke a rule and did it…

Eric Klinenberg uses many different tactics to persuade his audience to reduce their usage of air conditioning. With his use of facts and statistics, common sense, and personal experiences, he hopes to convey his point to his targeted audience. In his article, Klinenberg sets up his argument by portraying an image in the reader’s mind of “relax[ing] in the cold blasts of a movie theater or shopping mall”. He then goes on to say that “Americans use twice as much energy for air-conditioning as we…

In this excerpt, Hurston talks about how Tea Cakes and Janine going through a major crisis by being in the middle of a hurricane that can potentially be a life. Throughout this excerpt there is a lot of free will that is involved in this and at the same time Hurston shows religion plays a factor on how each character takes when certain scenarios happen and how they look at the whole entire situation. Hurston uses lots of personification when describing the hurricane which elebratoes more of the…

The poem that was recited by myself during class is I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear written by the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. This poems title and first line are exactly the same; the significance of the poem title in which I chose is that it sets up the entire tone of the poem which starts of with being very straightforward. An example is through the first five words of the title/ first line of the poem, "I shall forget you presently", which can be interpreted as "I will lose hold of…

“You” and “unique” creates a sense of flattery, making it seem as though the siren is opening up and getting more comfortable with the reader. Consequently, the speaker of the poem, or the siren, made the audience feel special and needed. This, in turn, provoked the audience to become too engaged with feeling vital and dominant that he or she did not realize that the siren was actually…

In the beginning of the novel, the unnamed protagonist, a young black man graduating high school addresses his graduating class with a speech. Instead of saying “ social responsibility”, he accidentally says “ social equality” and is immediately asked for clarification from his white audience who are shocked about the comment. On page 31 the the narrator recalls “the laughter hung smokelike in the sudden stillness” and the men asked if he was being “smart”. The narrator later apologizes for the…

In the text, Night, the poem, First They Came For The Communist, and the allegory, Terrible Things, there is a common theme between all three of them which is, “Just because a situation isn’t happening to you, doesn’t mean it won’t happen to you at all.” Throughout these three sources, this theme has been shown to be the one thing that they are trying to tell us. This can be called the shared theme because in all three of the sources, there have been bystanders who had to watch as others were…

In this day and age, who wouldn’t want to be able to be given the opportunity to have three wishes granted to them? One might think that this would be an easy decision, however, if only three wishes could be given, how would one determine what desire is of utmost importance to them. The decision regarding what to wish for would require much thought and consideration otherwise it could result in a dangerous and serious consequence. In both “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” and…