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    Smith could have derived a theme is using the imagery Carol Ann Duffy’s poem used, such as the metaphor, ‘the inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation’, which shows the children growing up to be something more complex as an exclamation mark portrays more feelings than a comma or just simply growing up as tadpoles grow into frogs; simultaneously, they are expanding their knowledge through what they learnt in Mrs. Tilscher’s class. Or another…

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    In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee develops the theme of morality through the characters Atticus, Calpurnia, and Miss Maudie. In the book, Scout and her brother Jem spend their time playing with their friend, Dill, and spying on their highly secretive neighbor, Boo Radley. In addition, morality can be defined as principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong. Through these characters’ lives, Lee develops the theme of morality. To start, Lee conveys the theme of morality…

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    detail. In the story the author created a lot of climaxes and spikes of tension by adding exclamations to the sentence structures, for example: “They heard” – they suspected! – they knew! –they were making a mockery of my horror!”, “I felt I must scream or die! – And now –again! – Hark! Louder! Louder! Louder! Louder! –“(17). The author writes the story using all of the punctuation marks like dashes, exclamation marks, and also italic words to create and to make the story be felt alive as if it…

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    indicate Hamlet falling prey to his emotions as he briefly lapses into his own mind and is therefore, unable to voice his thoughts. He is not able to separate reality from his emotions, as they overcome him and he begins to yell his thoughts. The exclamation mark emphasizes Hamlet’s struggle in maintaining a straight train of…

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    English Punctuation through the Ages Punctuation can be defined as all the marks such as question mark, exclamation mark, quotation marks, period, comma, apostrophe, colon, semicolon, dash, and brackets/parentheses that are used in many languages’ writing texts to separate sentences, phrases and clauses in order to clarify their true meanings. No one can deny that without these marks both writers and readers would be lost and quite confused about the written language in front of them.…

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    Captain's Capitan

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    connect with the glory, cheer and the yelling from the people from the excitements to share the victory with people. But, in the second stanza the rhythm changed from excitement to sadness. “But O heart! heart! heart!” () Although, it is written in exclamation form, it float with…

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    Ee Cummings

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    “The most wasted of all days is the one without laughter”(E.E. Cummings). Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a painter and a poet, he was fascinated with Pablo Picasso’s art. As you can see E.E. Cummings relies on sight and sound to create meaning in his poetry. It is important to know that Cummings uses language to its fullest. In document A his other poem “l(a” the spacing of the poem looks like loneliness, he also uses parentheses for…

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    was for this session: For me, the drama was the hardest draft to write. Therefore, it was the last draft that I wanted to revise. What you ended up writing: Mostly, I focused on modifying dialogues (making them shorter and decrease the amount of exclamation signs). By doing that, I wanted to make the scene more believable and realistic, so that readers would be able to connect…

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    When I read Stanley Elkin’s story A Poetics for Bullies I feel that he always uses those direct action words like climb, flick and hit. Those words make the sentence directly and naked, however, Robert Olen Butler likes to use some words which is not so direct and moving like appear and goes. I change appear to come and goes to walk because I think those words are more directly and make readers imagine the scene. For the sentence structure, I find that Butler doesn’t like to use some connection…

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    Gene Basset's Controversy

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    During the 1990s, Gene Basset drew an untitled editorial cartoon to stress the importance of the controversy about economic development and preservation of the natural environment. Basset’s editorial cartoon depicts a man representing the Billboard Lobby holding a chainsaw and shouting “obstructionist” at a tree, Although Basset’s cartoon seems straightforward, it can be inferred that he was trying to stress the importance of the battle to limit or to expand billboards up and down highways. This…

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