Grammatical gender

Vocabulary coincide (v)- to occupy the same place in space or time Your track meet will coincide with my soccer game tomorrow since they are scheduled for the same time. taut (adj)- having no give or slack; tightly drawn When he pointed the taut rubber band at me, I knew that it was going to hurt. stifled (adj)- muffled or repressed He tried to say something, but he was stifled from having a lot of popcorn in his mouth. submerge (v)- to go under water The sinking boat slowly submerges into the…

The Watcher In most third-person novels, the audience doesn’t know exactly who the narrator is – the author is the assumed narrator. In the case of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the narration is told through first person, although the reader initially is not sure who this narrator is within the context of the novel itself. Through this narration, the reader gains a certain closeness to the subject matter, while feeling somehow distanced. It’s clear from the narration that this person is…

One that challenges the axiom of regret- one that is built around an enigma-this is how Hannah Pittard is able to grab her reader’s in her novel The Fates Will Find Their Way. Hannah Pittard is compelling as she gives out different scenarios on how a girl goes missing through the eyes of obsessive high school boys. Along the way, you are introduced to the personalities and lives of each of these boys. Pittard as a knack for using first person plural to distinguish the perception all of the…

To correctly teach and convey the meaning behind English words a series of techniques and methods must be used, these have been applied to the words below. Yesterday, the best way to convey the meaning of this word in my opinion would be to uses a combination of visual aids and making sentences. To begin with I would ask the class “What date it is today?” they would then present me with the answer, I would then bring out an enlarged printout of a calendar and whilst the class are watching I…

All it took was three days. Three days for my view on life, the way I live, and how I view others to change. Towards the middle of my sophomore year I received an email from my guidance counselor asking me if I wanted to attend the HOBY seminar during the summer. Only one student from the high school was chosen to go, and I was honored to have been that one. HOBY stands for the Hugh O’ Brian Youth Leadership Seminar. 200-300 teens entering their junior year of high school from the Mid Florida…

The three works that will be analyzed in this essay are “ Stage to Lordsburg” by Ernest Haycox, “ The Big Sleep” directed by Howard Hawks, and “ Too Many have Lived/They Can Only Hang You Once” by Dashiell Hammett. Each of these works has a unique approach to storytelling, but they all share similar characteristics as well. “Stage of Lordsburg” , “ The Big Sleep” , and “Too Many have Lived” all demonstrate different as well as similar tools in literature, such as characterization and imagery.…

The last two chapter of “The woman warrior” are interesting and conflicting each other at the same time. They are conflicting each other because Kingston wasn’t involved in the main events where the stories all about her mother Brave Orchid and her aunt Moon Orchid but the last chapter most of it was about Kingston’s own stories and thoughts. It is interesting because Kingston in “At the Western Palace” where she wasn’t part of the major clashes of this chapter, but at the same time she was part…

article Hall used many different emotive language techniques to grab the audience’s attention. The title is written white on black which would catch your attention as this is the opposite way round to that it would normally be the title suggests a lot about the story. The title is written in the first person which captures your attention and makes you inquisitive as to ‘Why has he seen a killer die?’ this is most likely the intended impact on the audience to create a sense of mystery and…

Have there ever been a time when you see a movie and then read the book it was based off? I have. The experience made me think about issues, conflict, and the differences and similarities, and while doing so I was able to compare the movie with the story. Using the film Memento, by Jonathan Nolan and the story Memento Mori, by Nathan Nolan, made it possible to view and read the same story but in a different direction. The film focuses on a character named Lenny or Lenard, and the entire film…

Have you ever been reading a book and a very interesting word has jumped out at you? The novella The Pearl has many meaningful word and has a deep impact on how you feel when you read the story. In the first three chapters in the book we are introduced to a family, Kino, Juana, and Coyotito. They are a poor family living in brush houses, struggling to provide for their son. Kino is a pearl diver and one day he finds the pearl of the world! The news of the pearl travels fast and the whole town…