Meghan Sias English10 Loguen SOAPSS Subject: Jermain Loguen, in his speech “I am a Fugitive Slave”; he publically explains how wrong the recent Fugitive slave act is. And asks the city in which he lives in, Syracuse, to become a refugee for fugitive slaves. Loguen insinuates that it would be foolish to allow this act to be passed without opposition. This speech is a cry for help in which his faith in the people of Syracuse is shown. Occasion: This speech was delivered on October 4, 1850, shortly after the Fugitive slave act was passed, which Loguen is responding to.
By explaining the alleged truth about Gatsby’s past - such a wildly imagined and crucial event – in an indirect way and through making obvious use of exaggeration, Gatsby and his past remain ambiguous, maintaining Fitzgerald’s structural device of arousing the reader’s interest in Mr Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald digresses once again at the end of the chapter, describing an evening Gatsby and Daisy once shared during 1917. Interestingly, Fitzgerald uses ellipses to move from the point in the story he is narrating, to the ‘autumn night five
Benjamin Banneker Rhetorical Analysis In his sentimental, yet candid letter, Banneker reminds the reader of their past with the British Crown and his oppression in order to relate the reader to the struggles faced by a hopeless slave. In lines 1-25, Banneker makes strong use of past experiences faced by colonists in order to connect his reader to slavery. Banneker starts off with reminding the reader of when, “the British Crown exerted every powerful effort in order to reduce you to a state of servitude.” The use of this concrete detail leads the reader to remember a time when they suffered a form of slavery in order to help the reader understand the struggles faced by slaves. The reader is then brought to remember when, “every human aid appeared unavailable.” Although this may be a hyperbole, it is successful in emotionally attaching the reader to the hardships of slavery. The hyperbole doesn’t come off as over- dramatization, but rather shows the negative significance of slavery.
In his speech The Great Sin and Shame of America, Frederick Douglass shows that slavery is a sin and it is hurtful to celebrate a holiday like “Independence Day” by asking him as an ex-slave to speak about the independence and freedom he will always be denied. He and his people are left to rot in the heat of slavery while everyone else can speak of their won freedom. In this essay, it will be shown how Frederick Douglass uses different rhetorical devices like imagery and rhetorical questions which he uses to support his claim that slavery is sinful and wrong. In his speech The Great Sin and Shame of America, Frederick Douglass tends to use a great amount of rhetorical questions so that he may draw a reader deeper into his text and make the reader question their own beliefs on slavery. In the first paragraph of his speech, Douglass states, “Fellow Citizens: Pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called to speak here today?
While in Steers appropriation Igby rejects the ‘American Dream’ in which his godfather, D.H has achieved and Igby’s brother Oliver is corrupted by. Steers uses Igby’s godfather D.H to show the materialistic world, and also uses Igby’s older brother Oliver to show how that the American Dream is everyone’s dream. Throughout Salinger’s novel Catcher in the Rye it is evident that innocence is corrupted by society. The Catcher in the Rye – the title of this book is based on and old poem from Robert Burns in 1796. Holden misinterprets what this poem actually means and thinks its about someone who catches children from falling off a cliff.
The connection between Peter and his fellow immigrants floats to the surface of his poem with the repetition of dates, enforcing the idea that time is a factor affecting the degree of belonging felt. He manages to group his audience to gather with the use of inclusive language which also presents the feeling that the family has developed great connections. The detachment of family bonds is symbolised by the mentioning of the ‘rusty bucket’. These notions of familial connection and detachment create a contrast in effects of both life styles. He managed to foreshadow threats created by the government and bureaucracies though his ominous tone and hyperbole of the factory.
Michael Blasl Introduction to Analytical Writing 10:25-11:20 October 8th 2009 Love on the Rocks: An Ironic Rite of Passage In both John Updike’s “A&P” and Alice Munro’s “How I Met My Husband” the authors use the literary devices of irony and theme in their stories. In the following essay, this writer will analyze and compare both characters rite of passage, and how the use of irony leads them towards their completion of that rite. First, Sammy’s naïve and inexperienced persona cause him to make several poor choices such as quitting his job and force him to see how his actions can have very serious consequences. Second, this writer will compare his rite of passage to that of Edie’s.
Is America still the bully? This poem is really interesting combining history and imagery at the same time. Irony is a central theme in the poem. Roosevelt statue seems to be assigned with a role of the bully since we know who the weaker party was during the Spanish American War. The imagery of war is associated with the sounds of the poem.
Reason for War The year of the French and Indian war is at an end. The year is 1773. The French and Indian’s native to the Americas have lost the war against the British. The British Victory is received well by the colonists who perceived this would bring peace. The heavy weighing cost of the war being charged to the 13 colonies brought a feeling of enmity toward Great Britain.
I also learned pretty fast that bills were a fabric of the American life. My harsh baptism into the American culture removed any trace of naivety I had in me. I later realized that when I was dreaming about my trip I inadvertently discounted the comfort of familiar surrounding. Here I was in a new environment with different norms and culture where bills follow you to the grave. In Nigeria you buy a land and build a house, the end.