Pronoun

pronoun “I”, providing more description than usual. Moreover we come to know about the inner thoughts and opinions of the character through his speech. Here, in these lines an extensive description of the surrounding is provided as “brown fog of winter dawn”, “crowd flowed over London Bridge”, “Sighs”, “fixed his eyes before his feet”. All these point toward the fact that the narrator has himself observed his surrounding keenly. Additionally, in this part of poem First person narration is used…

rhetorical masterpiece and one of the greatest political presentations. Obama used a variety of verbal and nonverbal techniques to persuade voters that he could guide a positive and enduring change. Verbal techniques such as repetition, anaphora, pronouns and the rule of threes aided his portrayal of a prospering America under his leadership. Nonverbal techniques including eye contact, facial expressions, hand gestures and pace and tone reinforced his ability to connect with an audience. The…

Frederick Douglass selects details, manipulates language and establishes a cynical tone to reveal his ambivalent attitude toward his own condition as a freedman in the North after his successful escape from the South. After his successful escape from slavery, Douglass is elated at gaining his own freedom, “a moment of the highest excitement,” (Douglass 135) yet he is uncertain of his future. For instance, Douglass’s delighted state of mind is, “however, very soon subsided; and [he] was again…

“Had he not resembled my fate as he slept, I had done” This non-continuous, present perfect tense, used as a past particle, suggests that the connection she had with her father through the personal pronoun “he” continues to guide her. It also alludes that she may have once been comfortable with her gender identity, but since her father left, she isn’t able to fully conform to the idea of woman so perhaps,so could this be what we now know as the “Electra Complex.” This could also suggest that she…

the poem, however after further analyzation this hypothesis becomes doubtful. Dickinson opens the poem with “The last Night that She lived”, establishing early on the death of a character whose name is not even mentioned. Dickinson continues to use pronouns such as “her” and “she” to characterize the character. Furthermore, Dickinson evens refers to this person as an object showing that this person does not hold much value in her life. This comes in the last stanza, line 25 and 26 when Dickinson…

English 1010? Was I happy with my reading and writing skills? The answer is definitely not pleasing because I had a lot of problems, such as unclear thesis, unorganized paragraphs, incorrect use of MLA style, poor mechanics, confusing ideas, vague pronouns, and wordiness. English 1010 has helped me utilize my mistakes through the assignments and practices I did in this course. Throughout this course, my reading and writing had improved a lot and I will show my improvement through specific…

take down the Confederate battle flag. For example, in Selwyn Duke’s article, he says “we haven’t heard a peep about the Roof family’s political leanings,” (Duke). By using the personal pronoun ‘we,’ Duke is referring to whoever is reading the article. While the New York Times article does not use personal pronouns, it still is targeting the same audience. For example, the last sentence of the article states “State lawmakers who must vote on removing it need to do that now and show the nation…

will label and include: Line breaks for emphasis, 6+ stanzas, strong verbs, specific nouns, pronouns, 3+ adjectives & adverbs, personification, hyperbole, idiom, onomatopoeia, alliteration, simile, metaphor, sensory details (5 senses).…

languages which we called gender-biased languages or unbiased. Gender-biased language is used for the favour of one gender to another. In English language, we can see that bias is present for the preference male to the female gender. That shows male pronouns like he, his, him etc. in English writing. We also used some male dominant words like shipman, policeman, superman etc. show us male prominent to…

In every discipline, there are unique approaches and attitudes towards the elements that are faced within each job. These diverse approaches are adopted and practiced by those that are involved in them, typically based on what the end-goal of the job actually is. One such example would be between an Animal Right’s Activist and a Meat-Eating Activist. The topic on which they differ is on the killing of animals for food. In each of the above fields, there are rhetorical devices that are used to…