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    predictable. Those 3 reasons will each become a body paragraph.}} The setting gave it away honestly, I mean its important because the story "The Locket" foreshadows Edmond's unanticipated and figurative resurrection. Chopin refuses to maintain a elegiac tone in the story and repeatedly interrupts Octavie's melancholy thoughts. Also a description of the liveliness of spring day Having supposedly died in the previous autumn. Edmond became a figure rebirth that parallels the renewal of nature…

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    the narrator when he discovers about the murders of the Clutter family. He feels sorrow for the family as he does not wish something so horrible upon anybody. The narrator also feels closure as he burnt the scene of the crime. The writer creates an elegiac diction as he expresses his words with sorrow and closure for what occurred in that house. He expresses himself by saying “how could it happen…” as he could not believe the grotesque manner or method of the murderers. He showcases closure by…

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    Born in Senegal about 1753 At the Age of 8 she was kidnapped and brought to Boston on a slave ship John Wheatley purchased young Phillis to be a servant for his wife, Susanna Susanna did not train her to be a servant, instead she received an education in theology, English, Latin, and Greek. Wheatley wrote her first published poem at age 12 Wheatley became the first African American and first U.S. slave to publish a book of poems Phillis died in Boston, Massachusetts on December 5, 1784 Phillis…

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    literature, and history. Furthermore, within sixteen months of her arrival in America, she could read the Bible, Greek and Latin classics. By the age of fourteen, Wheatley began to write poetry, publishing her first poem in 1767. The publication of “An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Celebrated Divine George Whitefield”…

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    Later in the novel, Nick's tone turns to disgust once Gatsby tells him his life story. Gatsby asks Nick to attend a meeting with Jordan Baker to discuss an event from Gatsby's past that upsets him: '. . .I hadn't the faintest idea what 'this matter' was, but I was more annoyed than interested. I hadn't asked Jordan to tea in order to discuss Mr. Jay Gatsby.' Nick's tone here is indignant. Later, Nick denies Gatsby's offer for employment with a haughty tone: '. . .because the offer was obviously…

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    Simultaneously, Gaines provides an African American perspective on the south. He is good at applying traditional African American storytelling to his fictions, which diversifies the Southern literature tradition. Oral tradition is conveyed through dialogues, questions that wait to be answered. The uniqueness in the form of storytelling seems to tell readers that it is impossible to deny traditions, principles and values of Africans that were used as labor force or even regarded as slaves in…

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    The Beginning of an End Beowulf’s, the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem of a heroic warrior-turned-king, nature lies in the equilibrium of beginnings and endings, the greatest, mightiest warriors and kings, who once achieved all life’s glory, fall, non-immune to the fate that eventually takes every being. The poem traces the conquests of Beowulf, while intertwining stories of ancient kings and their people, with a consistent balance of the rise and fall. In the beginning, Shild, “an abandoned child,”…

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    Marvin is strolling with his dad through a compound with various segments, and he is excited to understand that they are going outside. Marvin and his dad get into an auto, and after the environment is depressurized, they drive out of the compound. Marvin sees a scene that is frosty, dry, and vapid. The sky is dark however loaded with stars, which he considers surprisingly. Marvin is the principle character, a kid in a moon province, who sees the post-end times earth interestingly amid an…

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    Shakespeare uses dreary diction, the personification of Death, and a break in the meter to present King Richard II’s epiphany about commonness of kings. In the beginning lines of Richard II’s monologue, Shakespeare integrates nouns such as “graves”, “executors”, and “deposed bodies” to create an introspective tone that centers around the concept of death. Shakespeare’s deliberate word choice emphasizes the importance of Richard II’s newfound understanding of death’s universality in his overall…

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    leaping over delineates one hurdling towards his or her vaulting desires and the vigor entailed to do so. In conclusion, like a multitude of human impulses, ambition may grow vulnerable decadence emanating from cogent influence. In Shakespeare’s elegiac play Macbeth, the playwright epitomizes the dismal facet of the driving theme of ambition as noted by the aspiring king’s…

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