Evaluate Authority: Who is the author of this text? Do they have a degree or other expertise that qualifies them to write on the subject? What else has the author published?
Details-What impression do they make on you? Do you see any patterns in the language the author has chosen in this paragraph? b. Mood-Note the effect that the author's language creates. What specific words create this mood? c. The sound of the author's words-Does the author use alliteration or onomatopoeia?
4. Explain the author’s main contentions and briefly discuss them using concrete evidence from the book. This may be in short quotes or in paraphrasing points. You may use outside reviews and commentaries to reinforce your interpretation. 5.
He seems to be a thoughtful and observative character because he notices small details in every setting he is in. He chooses to move east to learn more about the bond business. He lives in West Egg. 2. Who are Daisy and Tom Buchanan? What does Nick learn about Tom when he joins the Buchanans for dinner?
“Common Sense” was the pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which was published in 1776 in which he talks about why there is need for American independence and argues for self-governed nation. Paine uses the basic format of proposal and even after so many years, this piece of writing remains of the best written articles in the history of United States. Paine used the common language of the people which helped him prove his point more effectively. Paine begins his argument with the basic and theoretical reflections about the British Government and then explains more about the specifics of colonial situation. He then gives various evidences which were easily interpretive and understandable by the common American.
Hopefully you will think twice next time you say it is nothing more than slang. It is a part of the English language and should be treated with just as much respect as the English language. Sources McWhorter, John. “The Word On the Street: Fact and Fable About American English,” Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1998 Bernstein, Basil. "Social Class and Linguistic Development: A Theory of Social Learning," Education, Economy, and Society, A. H. Halsey, ed., Glencoe: The Free Press, 1961, 288-314.
People who have been cheated on will start to feel sorry for Bundy because they know how it feels to have to catch the one you love in the compromising situation. She then goes into a spill on how the man must have never loved her at all. She cries out, “didn’t love me ain’t no fool”. This is very logical because any man who has ever really loved a woman could not bring himself to being unfaithful. She goes into a description of how love has let her down and she will not be strung along, this builds pathos and ethos because she gets herself out of the situation by leaving him.
To those around her, Hugla’s facial expressions are one of “constant outrage” (170) and she is blinded “by an act of will." (170) Mrs. Hopewell, confident that Joy/Hulga would have been better without a worthless, “Ph.D. in philosophy;” (173) has no comprehension of the true meaning, of life to her daughter. In one of Hugla’s books, Mrs. Hopewell found the following passage underlined by blue pencil; “Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is. Nothing – how can it be for science anything but a horror and a phantasm?
This is demonstrated by her oxymoronic language “Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, / Dove-feathered raven” and “damned saint, an honourable villain". All these words contradict each other, just as how her love for both Romeo and Tybalt contradict each other. Her speech here clearly shows her state of mind, which is evidently so confused such that she is incoherent. This is probably because she is torn between her love for Romeo and her love and sense of duty to Tybalt. She is in a stage of shock and disbelief that Romeo killed Tybalt and is absolutely contradicted, having no inkling of how she should be feeling towards Tybalt’s death by
The Puritans frown upon Hester and Pearl, the product of Hester’s sin. The public humiliation and obstacles Hester goes through invigorates her with strength to triumph. On the day Hester is led to the town scaffold, the townspeople, who had no sympathy for her, taunted her with cruel and harsh words. When Hester is questioned about who was Pearl’s