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- 1721: Root
- ... gone kept growing in volume and intensity as the men began to communicate better and better with one another." In this sentence from Roots, by Alex Haley, the author used specific words to produce an effect in the reader. For example, Haley used "murmuring" instead of the more usual "talking" Haley used "murmuring" rather than the more usual "talking" because Kunta and the other prisoners developed a "deepening sense of intrigue ...
- 1722: Robert Frost - Imagery In His Poetry
- ... s first green is gold/ Her hardest hue to hold" (Trachea 90-2). He said sounds are summoned by the imagination and they must be profound, confident, and forceful in order to achieve the full effect of the poetry. Frost depended on this sound of sense to build his images by use of metaphor and sentence (Trachea 166). There were two reasons Frost insisted on the use of metaphor in his ...
- 1723: Red Badge Of Courage
- ... of death, and of each dead or deathly person Fleming encounters. Gray, first of all, is the uniform color of the opposing army: " Fleming perceived with dim amazement that their uniforms were rather gay in effect, being light gray . . ." (186). This realization is a little ironic since gray so quickly loses its gaiety within this narrative. Perhaps it reflects Fleming's growing awareness of the battlefield and his loss of fear ...
- 1724: Rebecca
- ... setting for a Gothic Romance. Manderley is the isolated, beautiful, and mysterious place that is what really makes the story so engrossing. If the story took place anywhere else it would not have the same effect. There is a hint of the supernatural with the feeling that Rebecca still haunts the corridors of Manderley. "Rebecca is the demon that must be exercised from both Maxim and the narrorator's minds." (Kelly ...
- 1725: Quest For Reformation
- ... a remedy to counteract the effects of society on the individual. Reduction. Thoreau reduced life down to the bare necessities, which included: Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Fuel. Once Thoreau simplified life, he created a domino effect--because "[he] did not work hard, [he] did [not] have to eat hard, and it cost [him] but a trifle for [his] food" (Walden, 140). Similarly, Thoreau "[didn't] work hard, he [didn't] require ...
- 1726: Pride And Prejudice - Marriage
- ... proposal shows how Darcy has changed, improved, and shed his ‘improper’ pride. Elizabeth accepts. Both of them are ashamed of their behaviour in Kent when Darcy first proposed. Lady Catherine’s interference had the reverse effect of what she had intended. They talk about why Darcy wrote the letter and how it affected Elizabeth. Darcy says that Elizabeth has completed his education. ‘You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first ...
- 1727: Pragmatics Deixis And Conversational Implicature
- ... speech, the proximal forms also shift into the corresponding distal forms. Compare the two following sentences: "You were here this morning?" I asked him whether he had been there that morning. In contrast to the effect of "immediateness" proximal deictic forms create, the reported speech utterance normally makes the original speech event seem more remote. In the following section, I shall discuss some forms of deixis in detail. Person deixis These ...
- 1728: Pied Beauty
- ... poem reads: "Landscape plotted and pieced - fold, fallow and plow; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim." There is a repetition of the "p" sound and of the "t" sound. I think the effect that this use of alliteration produces is that it emphasizes the diversity in nature. The diversity of all those different consonant sounds repeated corresponds to the diversity in nature. This poem has some end rhyme ...
- 1729: Perils Of Obedience
- ... possible. Civilian obedience also comes from the sense that the responsibility for the victim is not their own. Since they do not have the blood on their hands, so to speak, their actions do not effect them. It was found that the reasons for obedience are not only psychological but sociological as well. Milgram provides the idea of division of labor. As long as the product comes from an assembly line ...
- 1730: Paradise Lost
- Where Connotations Serve to Clarify Julían Marías, a Spanish philosopher proves to be no exception to the numerous writers attempting to describe California’s effect on both visitors and residents alike almost predictably invoking the idea of paradise in their evaluation. He confirms California as a paradise while at the same time exploring the reflective meaning of paradise itself in ...
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