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    Synecdoche And Tone

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    BV devised the tone shift from a soft euphony to a deeper, more emphasize tone. For Hanson’s poem, her poem goes from troubling, light tone to a realization tone. The two poems both possess a tone shift from a light to a deeper tone. Furthermore, the two poem both contains personification. BV produced, “the pain will consume you for hours on end” (BV, “Light House” 22). Erin…

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    Ozymandias Tone

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    clairvoyantly reflected in “Ozymandias”, wherein Shelley combines an atypical rhyme scheme and structure with a disembodied, fundamentally ironic tone that questions its own reliability – and emphasizes the underlying theme of power’s futility when exposed to the sands of time. “Ozymandias” is a sonnet, yet not in a precisely traditional sense; there is no…

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    The Mistle-Tones

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    group of coworkers and creates her own musical group called The Mistle-Tones. Eventually, The Mistle-Tones challenge the Snow Belles. Leading up to this rival challenge, Holly finds out about the true meaning of Christmas and the power of friendship while a new love interest appears. Review: Paul Hoen brings everyone yet another family appropriate, feel good movie where a lesson on love and perseverance is learned. The Mistle-Tones begins with shots of Holly rushing to her audition where she…

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    The Necklace Tone

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    Things Are Not Always As They Appear "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant and "Hearts and Hands" by O'Henry share a similar theme of "things are not always what they appear." "The Necklace" uses a more negative tone while "Hearts and Hands" uses a more positive tone to show the theme. To begin, Maupassant, author of "The Necklace" introduces his theme by punishing the protagonist for her greed. Madame Loisel wants to appear wealthier than she is so, she unknowingly borrows a faux necklace, loses…

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    Tone Of Innocence

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    Wharton repeatedly highlights the somber tone of the wedding day scene and disappointed lives of the people who are supposed to have the perfect life, utilizing different scenes to prove how the mask the people of New York begins to wear on them, becoming who they truly are inside. The somber tone of the play attributes to the overall theme of conformity and lose of hope. The wedding day of Archer and May accurately portrays the loss of love and passion in the relationships, instead replaced…

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    Prufrock Tone

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    Apathetic Tone in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T.S Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the sad tale of a man who has accomplished little in life but wearing "rich" clothing and procrastinating. Eliot employs a myriad of literary devices to convey the dull routineness of Prufrock's life, but the absolutely apathetic tone of the narrator is what really drives home just how passive he is about his own life. The entire poem is nothing but an aside to help Prufrock avoid…

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    Kristof Tone

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    In my opinion, Kristof’s slightly humorous tone is informal, but not inappropriate for his essay because it’s an obvious attention grabber. It’s nearly impossible to lose the reader’s attention from start to finish. In addition, his tone adds to his persona. Kristof confidently presents his ideas, examples, and opinions. He states everything rather bluntly instead of being cautious of what others might think of him. Tacit/implicit assumptions can be found in Kristof’s essay. For example,…

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    Tone Of The Sirens

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    are tiresome,Odyseus is being tortured.The painting communicates the idea that odyseus and his men are being tortured by the sirens,while the book communicates the idea that he is joyous. Contrasting all three,the poem,the book,and the picture,the tone of the poem stays the same,morbid and depressing.This is because in book 12 the men are told to put beeswax within their ears and to tie odyseus to the sail,so that he would be able to listen to their song and not steer the ship into the rocks.If…

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    Tone is how humans convey their messages. If everyone spoke in a monotone, there would be no true understanding of ones feelings. Everyone who be left in the dark and clue less about what everyone else truly felt. Tone is writing is used to help convey complex ideas in order to help the readers or audience take into consideration how the writer or poet truly feels about the topic or situation. Throughout the poem, Ulysses’ tone helps to convey his complex response to growing old to his audience.…

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    hexachordal set contains these pitches by themselves. Things become clearer upon analysis. It is visually clear that certain relationships exist between the pair of phrases played by the alto flute and bass clarinet in these four measures. The common tone F serves as a bridge between the two phrases is from this note that a nona-chord is formed from two identical trigrams in opposing directions. The two modes share the same core notes (F, A, Db) - the notes that form the spaces in which the…

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