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Amanda Ford Ms. Drosdick Language Arts, per. 6 12/26/17 Roald Dahl. 26 years after his death, and almost everyone knows the name Roald Dahl. In life he was nicknamed the children's champion, and for good reason. His wonderfully fantastical children's books have fueled the imaginations of generations of children; If you've never read Roald Dahl, then you've never had a childhood. Although more well known for his books, his poetry is no less impressive, and this is proved by "Television", a piece…

Miracle Cures sheds light on the daily life of citizens in medieval Europe, where the only hope for curing an illness was to travel distances for a possible healing. Chaucer shows the purpose of a pilgrimage as an opportunity to cleanse the body of sins. The Pardoner, one of Chaucer’s characters, sells indulgences, pardons and relics. However, he admits to having sins himself, notably, his avarice for money. Chaucer crafts a contradictory character showing that the Pardoner can be successful at…

George Frideric Handel is one of the best composers of the Baroque era. He is best known for being the master of oratorios. G.F. Handel was born in Halle, Germany on February 23, 1685. He was known as being a “boy genius” of his time (Sherrane). “Handel was very brilliant in several different musical works, including operas, oratorios, and concertos grossos. In the late Baroque period he combined German, French, Italian, and English musical styles in his operas (40), oratorios (20), and…

individual growth from the beginning of the play till the end.”The use of the pause as Dolly “Why don’t you fix your own house? If you know what I mean? Highlights the key as to which she takes action to have better housing conditions.The use of exclamation and rhetorical question used by Nan “My Gladys!,did you hear her? Coupled with she’s practically hugging the radio” emphasizes…

During the reign of Julius Caesar, a Roman lyrical poet rose to fame, known as Catullus. Catullus, unlike many other writers of his time, did not write of political issues, but of love and heartbreak. Although some viewed, love as a frivolous notion, Catullus was able to channel his emotions into writing, creating not only moving lyrics, but also using literary techniques, and creating new formations for poems. Wretched Catullus, Leave off Playing the Fool The first poem we will be analyzing is…

Owen’s Argument of Dulce et Decorum Est In Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen writes the poem to reveal to people what really happens to soldiers during the war. The poem exposes the gruesome experience during the first World War. Owen wrote the poem during World War One, which is the war that kills him. He uses the poem as an anti-war manifesto. His argument in the poem is that people view going to fight in the war and dying for ones country as heroic, but it’s an old lie: that men shouldn’t have die…

The chorus’ use of anaphora--repeating the word “when”--in their proclamation adds extra emphasis to their message and clarifies to the audience that the chorus views anarchy as disastrous to the function of society. Furthermore, by using an exclamation point instead of a seemingly more fitting question mark in their phrase “what of his city then!” (Sophocles 204), the chorus affixes finality to their statement rather than leaving it to the audience to come…

Authors of every time period want their ideas to be heard and so they carefully choose words or phrases to be ordered in specific ways that will allow their ideas to be better perceived. Whether for persuasion, information or just simply entertainment, writers pick apart literary devices and use them to their advantage. For example, the building of the rage through of specific aspects of drama, word usage and repetition of ideas in a prayer given my Medea, we are persuaded by Euripides to…

Having a child is typically a joyous, monumental time most people get to experience in their lives. Bringing another human into this world is looked upon as a blessing, not as a sin. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is accused of committing adultery in a Puritan society. Out of this sinful act she has a daughter named Pearl who the community does not support. In fact, the Puritan society as a whole views Pearl as product of sin that, in return, will teach Hester a…

Aeschylus’s trilogy, The Oresteia, presents one reason for Clytemnestra murdering Agamemnon: as revenge for the sacrificial murder of her daughter, Iphigenia. While this is not the only reason for Clytemnestra’s action, it is the most ambiguous; for example, Clytemnestra presents herself as a devoted mother, but she constantly contradicts her actions with her words. For instance, Clytemnestra, acting as a loving mother, vowed to avenge her daughter’s death, but later on goes to curse her own son…