Exclamation

other feelings’ an exclamation mark is in the business of denoting” (Truss 133), Truss juxtaposes Perekladin’s experience with disuse of punctuation with those readers who “can’t remember a time before we learned to punctuate” (Truss 134). After her analysis, Truss proceeds to convey the rules of a particular punctuation mark, however many there may be. Truss also exemplifies many of the rules, such as “’I could really do with some Opal Fruits!’” when listing that an exclamation mark can be used…

indicate that they are excited about something? I have, but I have also seen ‘woot’ used as text language, particularly as an acronym for “waste of our time”. The Concise Oxford Dictionary, however, has recently included ‘woot’, defining it as an exclamation of triumph or success (“‘Retweet’ and ‘woot’ Make Oxford Dictionary Debut”, 2011). The word ‘woot’ has been used to express enthusiasm, victory, desire, and irritation in music, television, games, online, and as acronyms. The meaning is not…

Allen Ginsberg: The Validity of Howl Allen Ginsberg may be one of the most respected writers from the 20th century that wrote visions of a troubled American society after World War II. Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1926 and died in 1997. In the 1940’s, Ginsberg attended Columbia University where he met other inspiring writers who later called themselves the Beats. The Beats was a combination of post-World War II writers that developed a reputation of phenomenal literature…

the story of Adonais in the elegy. He needs to be reassured that it might be reasonable to outpour his emotions in a long-form poem for another man. He encourages, “Most musical of mourners, weep again!” which, especially with the addition of the exclamation mark highlights the need for a second round of mourning and a reassurance of his own right to have such feelings (37). As he continues to…

Another crucial strategy that abolitionist poets used to make their poetry effective was making current events more accessible, especially for women. This can be demonstrated particularly by the poetry of Hannah More, due to her long friendship with famous abolitionist William Wilberforce. More’s poetry was certainly political in the sense that she attempted to demonstrate to a wider audience why slavery should be abolished, calling for social and political reform. In Anne K. Mellor’s article…

rather than showcase it as morbid. First, he changes “mute inglorious” to “mute ingloriousness” which changes it to mean the condition of being inglorious. The change in wording in conjunction with the celebratory phrase “three cheers” and the exclamation point as punctuation imply that he is praising those who are silenced by the elite nature of the English language, whether it be a working class man from Leeds or a man from the West…

very descriptive entry of the happenings. The storyline was easy to follow, there were "fun" words sprinkled in the text to expand young readers vocabularies as well. The only complaint I could muster is a very personal one - the usage of multiple exclamation points and questions marks. One after a word will suffice, in my opinion, but multiple give the writing a somewhat unprofessional look about things. As a parent, I do strive to have my children read books that have proper use of grammer and…

the action of saying goodbye with a kiss to young girl, another suggestion of human achievement unusual to wild birds is made. Readers are also able to vision how Jeremy sounds with mention of his loud squawking an example of onomatopoeia and an exclamation mark placed at the end of that sentence, further emphasises how noisy the character is, an example of a hyperbole. Assonance in the repetition of the phonemes in ‘at night he liked’ (Faille, 2013, p. 12) and in ‘Jeremy’s new feathers’…

Childhood is one of those precious and phenomenal time in which a child is transforming into an adult. We all been through childhood and we can all agree that childhood is one of the most significant moment of our lives because childhood is a delightful time in which life is extremely enjoyable and innocent. Childhood is the most beautiful of all life season. The poem Hide and Seek by Vernon Scannell presents an unbeautiful side of childhood life, in which the central theme is about growing up,…

it hard to follow, The author sometimes made sudden jumps from speaking about the situation in Montgomery to what her opinion and what was happening to her. Plus, the excessive use of exclamations really made it difficult for me to follow. It felt like almost every single one of her opinions were put in exclamation marks. As far as what is going on in this country right now the book that best relates would be The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women who started it. The boycott for them was for…