Euphemism

and increase maturity level of Candide. Voltaire portrays the companionship between Pangloss and Candide compared to Martin and Candide through the use of satire and rhetorical devices such as exaggeration, euphemism, and comparison and contrast of optimism and pessimism. Voltaire uses euphemisms to convey his message of anger through the characters. Pangloss and Martin are influential in the decisions that are made by Candide In doing so, Voltaire forces the reader to stand between the…

Language has the power to give shape to thought. In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen-Eighty Four, the Party controls its citizens through language, in order to solidify its grip on power. This is done by restricting rather than broadening thought through methods such as ‘newspeak’ (Leah Beach “Language, Liberty, and George Orwell”). I will argue that the Party succeeds in doing this through application of the theory of linguistic relativity, which is a principle that holds that the structure of a…

Tennyson Nelson Professor Bhuiyan RWS 100 Section 73 23 October 2014 Corruption the Language of Politicians Though written more than a half-century apart, “Politicians and the English Language” by George Orwell and “Why do politicians lie? Because they have to” by Melanie Phillips are essays that share similar viewpoints. Orwell claims politicians use the tools of corrupt language to get what they want and to manipulate the populace. Phillips concludes the same in her work. Text examples and…

Appeal to Pathos: Examples: “You will surely make your dear mother happy should you make her breakfast.” “When you finally leave for college, I will be the only child left. I’m sure I will find myself all alone far more often, all without a fleeting bit of hope left. The last one left, that’s me. ...College awaits, no?” “Following your arrival to the party, you will promptly sign-up at the toll booth so that you may pay your admission. Those who do not will find themselves with a nice…

Australian soldiers. William views contends on the first group of Australian that landed at the Anzac cove, to be deserting away from the battle. Referring to an informative website: Desertion sits uneasily with the idea of a legend. In place of it, the euphemism "stragglers" was instituted to save face.” (Bantick, 2010). However, the term ‘stragglers’ still didn’t satisfy William and it certainly still did not suit the legend of courage, so it has been edited out. In conclusion, above all have…

“International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force (IAETF) is an advocacy group that opposes the legalization of euthanasia. They argue that Euthanasia is unconvincing by responding to several popular arguments. They state that euthanasia advocates use euphemisms and false claims to support their beliefs. For example, write the authors, dying patients have the right to refuse treatment, so the claim that doctors might force a patient to stay alive is unfounded. In their view, killing is always…

that Phil was not a loving father, or family man. She used many rhetorical devices throughout that help convince the reader of Phils status. In one of these she uses the phrase “dearly beloved” that was in Phil’s obituary. This can be considered a euphemism because his children hardly knew him so how can he be dearly beloved. An example of when they could have used this right would be he dearly beloved his work. His oldest child barely even knew him, he had to go around asking…

ground of all nature. Nature acts in contrast with Puritan society. Hawthorne mentioned in the first chapter that “the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him” (46). In the novel, Pearl asks her mother about the black man, which is a euphemism for the devil. Supposedly, the “Black Man” lives in the forest, which frightens anyone from wandering in there. This plays an important role in the novel. Due to the fact that Puritans are very religious, saying that the devil resides in the…

Learning about Sacagawea this week in both Chapter 8 and our other readings and videos was very interesting. Like I've said before in postings, in high school I was given a less descriptive and thorough history of her, though in this instance, it was not a contradictory version. I've read and learned before that she was the guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition across the western half of North America, that she helped them greatly and translated for them when they met Native…

specifically argues that we need professional journalists and need to find new ways to report foreign news that will properly inform the audience. To strengthen his argument, Goodman uses three rhetorical elements; strong language,appeal to logic, and euphemism. Strong language plays a large role in Goodman’s article.The word choices he uses makes his statements strong and assertive. He states, “Yet the same forces that have assailed print media, eroding foreign news along the way”(6). The word…