Semicolon

topic. Throughout the speech there was points sadness, and anger. A speech should be emotional throughout. In Clinton’s speech there isn’t anything unusual in her use of punctuation. Through the speech she used normal punctuation, she used commas, semicolons, and periods. Punctuation was not out of the…

the reader to stop and take a breather, with West Indian parents, there are no breathers. Jamaica wanted readers to read it continually so she can show the reader the non stop commands that her mother was giving to her daughter. Jamaica’s use of semicolons to divide the advice and commands of the mother makes it a prose poem, because it lacks lines and rhymes and narrative structure. In one point of the story Jamaica is being repetitive. She uses “this is how” as the mother explains to her…

known she would be working here?” (Strout 56). The narrator’s informality is a key feature that makes these stories work as it inserts its elucidating comments here and there, interrupting the narrative for a small digress using dashes, colons, semicolons and sometimes ellipses or taking the voice of the character entirely to state an important thought. It is a satisfying technique that is used throughout the book quite often and has the quality of a privy tell-all narrator who is friends with…

In her humorous punctuation manual, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, British author and former BBC Radio 4 host Lynne Truss describes various scenarios in which punctuation can have a major impact on the readability of a written text. The book was published in late 2003, when texting was just becoming part of mainstream communications, perhaps contributing to the demise of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the United States. Truss wrote Eats, Shoots & Leaves not to criticize or condemn technological…

The Holy Sonnets and other Poems by John Donne (1572-1631) as well as the post-modern theatrical production “W;T” by Margaret Edson (1995) explore the enduring themes of the human condition, such as the mortality of man, and the interpersonal bonds that define humanity. These themes manifest in a religious context through Donne’s English Renaissance (1590 – 1710) due to the Calvinist beliefs of his time; such as life after death and an intrinsic potential for human bonds to be spiritual and…

example of poorly translated Chinese phrases, but it ended up to be so popular that nowadays it is considered acceptable); on the other hand, while English sentences can be theoretically infinitely long through the use of phrases, conjunctive words, semicolons, etc., the sentences in Chinese have a somehow strict length limit that one would have to cut a long sentence into shorter pieces. Then, you must also study the tone and emotion of the original speaker and use similar tones. For example,…

This year in English 10H has allowed me to hone and improve my reading and writing skills. With this class, I have been able to be challenged far more than I would have had I not chosen to stick with an honors class. My writing has improved leaps and bounds over the course of the year due to the large amount of papers we wrote that covered vastly different subject matters. The first paper we wrote to start off the year was a thesis essay based on an independent novel that we read over the summer…

Life and death are concepts that are interconnected. We cannot live a life void of death, nor can we die without living, without existing beforehand. The poems I chose deals with these two notions and the link between them, and will be analysed in this essay based on language, imagery, meaning and effect. “A Consumer’s Report” by Peter Porter revolves around life, while “For Heidi With Blue Hair” by Fleur Adcock is about the method of grieving a loved one’s death that a girl employs. Both…

In 2002 The United States Legislature passed the No Child Left Behind Act. The negative connotations of this act has pervaded our failing school system now for fourteen years. Students, parents, and teachers alike have all grown a resentment for the idea that, despite the effort, a student has the opportunity to fail, parents have the opportunity to bear witness to that failure, and teachers hold the considerable weight of believing it is due to their inadequacy. Individuals who possess…

“Girl”: The oppressive attitudes exhibited in a mother-daughter relationship In today’s society parenting styles are more on the side of trial and error, however twenty years ago parenting styles were of a dominant demeanor. In this short story, the oppressive, arduous manner of the mother reflects back to how parents nurtured their children. “Girl”, by Jamaica Kincaid, employs the structure of word choice to capture the commanding tone which creates themes: that depict the mother- daughter…