Are the words monosyllabic or polysyllabic? Do the words have interesting or unusual connotations? Is the diction formal, colloquial, slang, didactic, etc? Is there any change in the level of diction in the passage? What can the reader infer about the speaker or the speaker’s attitude from the word choice, and how does it connect to tone?
One may also choose a strategy if the topic is that of a trendy one, one may decide to state his /her opinion on the topic, inform of the effects of the issue or write a story which involves the issue. Also the topic itself how it is posed may indicate or ask one to write in a specific rhetorical strategy. Not only does the topic but also the purpose of the essay can help to identify which rhetorical strategy is to be chosen. For one to choose a particular strategy to choose one must know the aim of the essay. What is the essay being written for?
Paola Santos Mrs. Clopton English 9 per. 4 Feb. 5, 2013 Poets do not write poems just because they like to write, they write them to make does certain emotions in side wake up and get touched. Poetry is not all about writing although it can change feelings that others have. The poem “Sure Rains a lot Here” is about a young solder that writes to his family on what he is going through while he was in the Vietnam War. This poem mainly is about a young man who tells lies to his family so they would not be sad about what really was going on and what their son is doing.
How have your perceptions and ideas of belonging, or not belonging been shaped through your study of your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing? 6. A responder may experience and understand the possibilities presented by a sense of belonging to, or exclusion from the text and the world it represents. Discuss the validity of this statement with close reference to your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing 7. Discuss how a variety of language modes, forms, features and structures have shaped your understanding of belonging or not belonging in your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing.
How has your study of belonging changed you? DIFFICULTY/DUALITY OF BELONGING/NOT BELONGING 1. “Despite an individual’s desire to belong to a group or community, this not always possible.” How do the texts you have studies represent the processes and results of belonging and/or not belonging? 2. Belonging to a group or community can provide opportunities and disappointments.
How to make it flow, so that the readers are able to understand what you are trying to get across. How to list my pros and cons and be able to write in the third person. It was all very helpful. 4) Skills: As a result of writing this evaluation, how have you become a more critical thinker, reader, and writer? What skills do you hope to develop further in your next writing project?
Why did the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn anger Gordon? Do you agree with him? Why or why not? Because every time the author was talking about colored men or women, he would call them niggers. Gordon should have given the book a chance by actually reading it with his class, instead of walking out on it because he kept hearing the would niggers.
He targets the audience’s emotions with the sad story of his childhood. While reading this I visualized the situation he was in which created in me a certain sadness. He creates this sadness not only through the story itself but also with the tone he uses. He then talks about how his father’s interest in books got him interested in books. In this second paragraph I noticed that Alexie liked to get very descriptive with his writing in a way.
Delia S. Lainez Professor Moran English 101-094 October, 26, 2011 Different perspectives of a child-father relationship How to contrast two things that seem very similar? It is hard to try to contrast two short stories that seem to have the same message. However, their content and every little detail might give us two different perspectives of a child-father relationship. Ernest Hemingway’s “A day’s wait” and Scott Fitzgerald’s “Outside the Cabinet-Maker’s” challenge a writer when it comes to say the differences and similarities between them. The sense a reader get from reading their stories allows them to experience their mysterious styles.
What is Gawande arguing? Is the purpose stated explicitly or implicitly? * How does the writer use language? What is the writer’s tone? What does the writer’s word choice show about his or her