26. Passage one and passage two describe work as a stress-free obligation to complete. Both passages send a message that gratification and satisfaction is attained by the effort put into their life duty. In passage one‚ the author’s feelings towards his grandfather were admiring. “And when I was done‚ I stood leaning my shovel for a moment‚ looking with satisfaction down the long path that stretched to the corner.” His grandfather inspired him to get his work done voluntarily with pleasure.
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When reading two passages‚ one by M.F.K. Fisher on the French port of Marseilles and the other by Maya Angelou on the small town of Stamps‚ I noticed that the passages had some similarities but where entirely different in their effect and the handling of language resources. While Angelou and Fisher organized and constructed their passages similarly‚ the persona and rhetoric of the authors are opposite. Angelou and Fisher’s styles differ greatly‚ however‚ they both used very similar plot structure
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Evening Hawk‚ Robert Penn Warren makes extensive use of figurative language‚ imagery‚ and symbolism to describe a foreboding scene that calls attention to the passage of time. He uses simile and the symbol of the Evening Hawk to convey a scene in which he suggests that man is being judged. Warren calls attention to the slow‚ grim passage of time with simile‚ suggesting that “history [drips] into darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar.” Were there “no wind‚” he says‚ we might be able to
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Read the following passage from "Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God." Questions 1-4 are based on your analysis of this passage. "Consider the fearful danger you are in; it is a great furnace of wrath‚ a wide and bottomless pit‚ full of the fire of wrath‚ that you are held over in the hand of that God‚ whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you‚ as against many of the damned in Hell. You hang by a slender thread‚ with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it‚ and ready every
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of the passage. Such questions can appear in various forms. Some of the forms of such questions are: 1. "Which of the following best describes the tone of the passage?" 2. "The tone of the passage is….... " 3. "The author’s approach/tone/style of writing in this passage can be termed/described as....." Such questions should not be attempted unless you have read the entire passage (unlike certain other categories of questions which can be attempted without reading the entire passage). Once
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ANALYZING A PASSAGE In writing about literature or any specific text‚ you will strengthen your discussion if you offer specific passages from the text as evidence. Rather than simply dropping in quotations and expecting their significance and relevance to your argument to be self-evident‚ you need to provide sufficient analysis of the passage. Remember that your over-riding goal of analysis writing is to demonstrate some new understanding of the text. HOW TO ANALYZE A TEXT? 1. Read or reread
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Disciplines. Ed. Gilbert H. Muller. 11th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill‚ 2011. 642-643. Print. Question #18: What is the author’s purpose? Does s/he achieve this purpose? What three or four elements most significantly contribute to the success or failure of the passage? Hughes’ purpose in writing salvation was to display that the pressure of adults has an enormous impact on a child’s life. Hughes achieves his purpose through his use of change is syntax‚ polysyndeton‚ and irony. Every person has the natural
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ways. In George Orwell’s passage‚ his tone was more critical and serious and his style was specific and formal. In his writing he used many references and details to support his ideas in the passage. He wrote about how the English language has progressively gotten worse because of people using too many sophisticated words in order to sound smart‚ but resulting in losing the meaning in what they are trying to say. In order to prove his point by researching passages that are guilty of using unnecessary
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female writers of her time‚ and ours‚ wrote two essays in which she attended the meals of a men’s and women’s university. In the first passage‚ Woolf describes an extravagant luncheon at a men’s college‚ using long and flowing sentences to express the seamless opulence of the "many and various retinue[s]" displayed at the convention. On the other hand‚ in the second passage Woolf illustrates a bland‚ plain‚ and institutional-like dining hall. It was nothing special‚ and nothing great‚ only a poor regimen
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solitary hills low breathings coming after me‚’ presenting nature as a moral educator evoking fear as he has done wrong. Nature acts like a parent at the beginning when Wordsworth states ’I grew up fostered alike by beauty’ and also at the end of this passage ’low breathings coming after me’ when we get the image of an angry parent. He feels this overwhelming presence due to the
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