Text figures

The freedom of slaves King’s speech has been known as a masterpiece of rhetoric. One rhetorical device that King used is repetition. There are many examples that show repetition but the most common example in the speech is “I have a dream” that shows different aspects of King’s vision of rhetorical harmony. As learnt in class, Kairos shows opportunity, time and place. The speech was so powerful because of its kairos. In one of the sections, King repeated the phrase “one hundred years later”…

Since the beginning of time, all of mankind has depended on the land for basic survival-such as the “Bare Necessities.” However, man began to stray away from “al-naturale” by finding any way to control nature and use it to their advantage. Therefore, over time, the relationship between man and nature grew despondently, just as Richard Louv emphasizes in his excerpt, the “Last Child in the Woods.” Louv stresses that the loss of nature will hit home in present and future generations by using an…

Awakening into the reality that is “the real world” can be rough and turbulent. Adolescents go through significant phases in their journey of figuring out who they are and how they fit into the fabric of everyday life. The first one being the naive phase; this is where we believe we know everything there is to know. This is the stagnant phase where we cannot see change and think about forever in the most literal sense. Second is the turbulent phase; where we find ourselves rebelling to anything…

Imagery-visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. Ex: "So she drew her mother away, skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically, among hillocks of the dead people, like a creature that had nothing in common with a bygone and buried generation, nor owned herself akin to it." (Ch. 10) This is describing Pearl being full of energy skipping and doing other things in a cemetery. She is dancing all over the tombstones. Pearl does not care or realize that what she is…

Rhetorical Analysis Sojourner Truth, a black Civil Rights Activist, was born in 1797 and raised in a minefield of mistreatment and slavery. She ran away from the New York estate where she was enslaved when her owner failed to obey the New York Anti-Slavery Act of 1827. She spent the remainder of her life fighting against inequality and injustice. In 1851, Truth spoke at a Woman’s Rights Convention, advocating and sharing her ideas on equal rights between those of men and women, specifically…

In John Collier’s “The Chaser,” differing view of Alan Austen and the old man about "true love" are conveyed through motivate, perspective, and foreshadowing. Alan Austen is a young and naive man with his biased views on life while the unnamed old man has experience through his age and occupation. In the short story "true love" has contrasting meaning dependent on the point of view. Mr. Austen's motive can be seen as soon as he enters the old man's domain. He enters with his intention in hand,…

Hamlet's Humanity Humanity is described to be the human race in their accordance or the societal factors made to determine one's humanness. Humanity in itself is subjective, its standards changing from one mind to another's. In all, humanity is the general reality that is established by the plentiful minds of different clusters of individuals and the individuals thereof. Hamlet, the vigilant and realistic protagonist, explains the flawed humanity that surrounds him. He sees the flawed perfection…

In Death of a Salesman there is a large amount of false hope present throughout the entire film. Linda provides the support her family needs in order for them to all stay together, even if the things she supported were not true. She supported her husband, and two sons even as they were lost and disorganized. Linda’s support toward her family leads the audience to recognize the theme of lost identity. Throughout the film Linda’s positive attitude influences Willy, Biff, and Happy. Willy’s…

suits (this one was a matte black, it would be invisible in the night sky) appeared out of a panel in the wall and assembled itself around him as he stood holding Loki’s gaze, smiling slightly. “Stand behind me, put your arms around my neck,” Tony instructed. Loki did, and a moment later they were flying. Tony was flying slower than usual, since he had an unarmored companion on his back, but still they were whipping through the sky, almost silently around the mostly-quiet, mostly-dark…

Skating is something I really hate doing. It is dumb, only thing that would make your butt hurt if you fall and bruise it. When I was a little girl, my dad use to always take my siblings and I skating every Friday. I had a blast. I could do everything, skate backwards, I could dance while skating. One day, it was so packed because of $2 Fridays. I was skating and these teenage girls pushed me on the ground, made me bend my wrist back. I had to to be rushed to the Emergency room, it was not so…