Punctuation

Throughout my first semester of college level English, there were various pieces of writing that I had to develop. A large range of them were opinionated, which is something I am not used to. In high school, teachers would tell the students exactly what type of essay to write and how to write it. High school papers were extremely concise in a way that a student was not allowed to think too far out of the box; ideas were stifled. This semester I was able to write essays on topics that I could…

strengths were that I can put ideas together and summarize passages. Pre-writing helps me set up a foundation of what I am writing and makes it easier to clarify ideas. I learned that I am struggling in the revising process, specifically on grammar and punctuation. When I am writing my essays I write them as I am casually speaking, rather than using proper English. I find that my current strengths are creativity, format and planning. I really enjoyed writing the personal narrative essay…

ASSIGNMENT 3 In this satirical poem e. e. cummings talks about patriotic ideology and his opposition of it. The poem is about people who encourage this view and cummings showing how ridiculous it really is. To achieve the satire he uses different literary devices, but mainly structural irony. This type of irony consists of a narrator who is sure of his viewpoints and doesn’t see what is wrong with it, but the author and reader do. In this poem, first thirteen lines are a speech by a very…

Compare the way Blake and Heaney present strong attitudes towards society. William Blake and Seamus Heaney were both visionaries and social critics, who presented their strong attitudes towards society through writing critical poems in protest against the corruptions of society. Blake’s poems were based around the transition of idealised agrarian lifestyle changing to an urbanised society, written in the 1700’s. Heaney’s poems were written much later on during the 19th century, to present his…

The oral analytic rubric is composed of five individual grading aspects. Each of these aspects plays a major role in grading an ELL student’s oral language. The five grading components are comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar. To begin with, in order to develop an effective academic speech, comprehension is an imperative learning skill. One prime example of how crucial comprehension is by following a doctor’s direction concerning the steps needed for the consumption of…

Human nature has always preyed upon worldly nature for creative inspiration. It is human nature to fashion oneself as a god, creating worlds and influencing thought by one stroke of a pen. In a writer’s creation, worldly nature is a necessary component of his imaginary world. Whether nature is praised or cursed by an author, a human’s only opportunity to control nature lies within ink and paper, which explains why nature is such a prevalent theme in literature. Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Pope…

embraces simplicity and concreteness. Another stark difference between the two collections of work is the format in which both poets write. Berrigan sticks strictly to the use of the sonnet while Ruefle experiments with different spacing, as well as punctuation, and repetition. Additionally, Ruefle gives each of her poems a unique title unlike Berrigan. All The Activity There Is (8) serves as a strong…

war in these poems which draws the reader closer to Owen. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen presents war as violent, inconsiderate and simply pointless. He uses a variety of different techniques such as irony, onomatopoeia, and effective punctuation to support his visualisation and experience of war. Owen loathes the idea of war and tries to convey that there is nothing positive from it. This poem is dedicated to Jessie Pope who was also an English poet and she based most of her poems…

The writers of the Romanticism Period mainly focused on emotion, individualism, and the different aspects of nature in their works. The movement emphasized different kinds of emotions, such as awe, horror, terror, sadness, and much more. It experimented with different subjects and broke through the expectations of the structure of poetry. This had a huge impact on many of the poets of this literary period, including Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson was a widely famous poet of the Romanticism…

2nd Essay: Responding to Poetry Poetry mainly describes love, loss, and regret. However, every writer adds his or her own twist. For example, “Last Night” by Sharon Olds and “Cherrylog Road” by James Dickey deals with the same theme but are two different pieces of writing. They explore the theme of forbidden love and use imagery to show the lust between the two characters. In this essay I will compare and contrast the two poems by presenting different examples. Titles can say a lot about a…