The Final Passage

the tenor. During this subject-and-answer interaction Bach uses imitative counterpoint to merge the four voices into one cohesive texture. Episode one is introduced with the soprano and tenor performing binary imitative passages. The bass and alto also perform binary imitative passages alongside the soprano and tenor. With the end of Episode one the middle section is introduced with the repetition of the main theme by the alto. At a nearly undistinguishable pitch, the soprano introduces the main…

Today Jerusalem is considered a holy site for three of the world's foremost religions. In all stages of the Hebrew Bible Jerusalem and its surrounding features are repeatedly mentioned as the establishing it as the holy center for Judaism, Islam and Christianity. I intend to give three main examples of Jerusalem in the Old Testament and illustrate through these examples why Jerusalem is so important to the people of these three faiths. The first mention of something relating to Jerusalem in…

the night in your room’ (Conan Doyle 326). This passage from “The adventure of the Speckled Band” uses dialogue to show that Holmes and Watson are partners. Sherlock asks Watson, “what do you make of that?’’’ and Watson replies, “‘It’s a common enough lash. But I don’t know why it should be tied.’” In other words, Holmes asks Watson what he thinks because he is not sure. In asking Watson “what do you make of that?”, it shows…

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He stayed in California for the first twelve years of his life until his father, William Frost Jr., died of tuberculosis. After his father had died, his mother moved their family to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with his grandparents. Frost attended Lawrence High School where he met his future wife, Elinor. Frost attended Dartmouth for a few months after high school before returning home to help support his family. He…

Ernest Hemingway is known for writing rite of passage stories. His short story Indian Camp is no different. It tells the story of a young boy, Nick, and his father who go to an Indian camp to assist an American Indian woman who has been in labor for three days. After an impromptu cesarean, the Indian woman gives birth but they find her husband on the bunk above her has committed suicide. In this story, Nicks father attempts to put Nick through an initiation by having him assist in the birth of…

The opening passage of “A Separate Peace” sets protagonist and first-person narrator Gene Forrester at the Devon school, the private prep-school in New Hampshire, that he graduated from fifteen years prior. Now in about his mid-30s, it is evident that since his time at Devon, Gene has undergone great change, recognizing the immense fear in his days at Devon that wasn’t clear to him the. Gene’s perspective and description of the school is evidence to that, now as an adult, he is now much wiser…

like a grieving mother with a lamp” (32). We see in this passage adjectives, a simile, sentences written with poetic prose. All of this reminds us of the moments away from the hellish nightmare which these characters inhabit. This passage has dark tones, certainly, but in its complexities it reminds the reader of our own lives. We have moons hardly visible and days without sun, but we carry on just as much as the characters do. This is a passage of faith, telling us we should keep moving forward…

story, I found Wolff’s tactics to be quite effective. Wolff enhanced his story by giving it several places to grab the attention of the audience, as well as providing entertainment from the first sentence to the final sentence. To begin, Wolff’s intense and vivid details throughout the passage was the first thing that captured my attention.…

character’s name: Susan/Suzanne. Nealy’s total accuracy was 97% (instructional) and acceptability 99% (independent). Nealy scored 61% on retelling of ideas. Nevertheless, Nealy’s overall level of comprehension was 100%. As a result, “Father’s New Game” passage level is…

traditional conception a melodic line in order to be considered modal, apart from being diatonic to a mode (traditional or synthetic), needs to contain no alterations. This also applies to modal harmonic content. Persichetti states that “a pure modal passage is one in which a modal melody is harmonized with chords from the same mode and on the same tonal center.” In reference to modal jazz, this concept is what Ron Miller has described as modal simple. This notion of harmonic modality is…