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Appositive is a form of rhetorical device with a noun or pronoun followed by another noun and pronoun that renames or identifies it. Based on Brokaw’s speech, “Francis Fukuyama, the provocative student of social and historical trends, has given voice to concerns of many, most recently in a long article in The Atlantic Monthly” (441)…

experiment they would say a cat/dog or cats/dogs or in the third they would say the eight different animals. Followed by that introduction, the experimenter would then say the eight facts. In the Kind condition, they used the pronoun they and in the individual condition they used the pronoun he/she. They made the children repeat each fact after it was told to them to make sure they were paying attention. When each fact was presented to them, there was a related picture shown along with it. The…

The play, Oedipus The King, is believed to have been written by Sophocles around 430B.C., and produced, in Athens, Greece. The overall tone throughout the play is tragic, similar to the other plays written by Sophocles. Also just like other plays written by Sophocles, the time of this play is in the mythical past of ancient Greece, and takes place in Thebes. The main character, Oedipus himself, is a Greek mythical king of Thebes. Oedipus was a tragic hero in Greek mythology who accidentally…

A personal approach, in coordination with appropriate injects of oneself in writing, opposed to informal distance, results in a more effective message and connection to the audience. Deborah Tannen uses personal experiences and first person pronouns in “But What Do You Mean” to forge stronger connections resulting in an effective message to the reader. Tannen uses classification laced with informal narrative to display her ideologies as to why women and men communicate poorly and how gender…

this. Furthermore, on page 17 George says “Jesus, what a tramp.. So that’s what Curley picks for a wife.” (Steinbeck 17) In this quote, George is referring to her as an item rather than a person. He says “that” instead of a pronoun such as “she” and uses “what” instead of a pronoun such as “who”. The definition of dehumanization is “the process depriving a person or group of people of positive human qualities”. A person having a name is a human quality and right, the men leaving Curley’s wife…

performed it I empathized with her character, the wife, because it was told from her point of view. It is interesting how the same words coming out of different peoples mouths can have different meanings. Nicole didn’t change the text except for a few pronouns, but I felt as though the wife was more of a victim, even when she ran her husband over with a car. The change wasn’t so dramatic that we lost the original story, however it did make us see it in a new light. This performance went above…

A language is a powerful tool for expressing thoughts, ideas, and feelings. Language also serves as one of the primary contextual clues in determining where any one person is from in the world or region. Moreover, language also serves as the driving force for culture development within societies. The concept that language directly affects culture development is the prominent hypothesis within the anthropological community. The primary language taught to any person during their early growth and…

Warsan Shire’s “for women who are ‘difficult’ to love” is a powerful and personal poem. Through the use of the pronoun “you”, which is very personal and direct, rather than “she”, which is less personal and more of a narration, the reader feels as if he/she is themselves in the story, experiencing and living vicariously through the woman. Shire uses powerful, descriptive diction and vivid metaphors while maintaining simple sentences to create a fiery, emotional mood. Ultimately, Shire applauds…

from the speaker to the action, it also allays the audiences aggressiveness towards the speaker (Heinrichs 96). Roosevelt heavily uses pathos in this section, he appeals to pathos by invoking God and then uses personal pronouns to make the speech more personable. Personal pronouns aid in making the audience feel included and further immerses them in the moment. In the fifth paragraph, Roosevelt uses patriotism to consolidate the audience, patriotism also does a wonderful job of looking into the…

ceremony, a celebration of union with the mountain: two equals coming together in "a happy marriage of fear, sweat, intelligent strength, and smiles." It becomes clear immediately that it’s a narrative essay due to the consistent use of first person pronouns such as ‘I’, ‘myself’, and ‘we’, and the formal style of communication used, for example, in the phrase “I force myself to breathe, to generate my own flow, to create my own beat. But nothing feels right.” Also, the author uses imagery,…