... passages that were read, each tells of a man proposing marriage. Each man used different rhetorical strategies while proposing including assumptions; arguments; attitude; and diction; but the probable effects of the two proposals may be different. The passage by Jane Austen tells of a man who is proposing. In this ... how hemust marry?. This is not exactly the attitude one should take while proposing. The man in the passage should be using a compassionate tone and romantic diction, but this is not shown. The man tells how he should marry because it isa right thing for every clergyman? a...

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... up, with strange pretercanine eyes, in my face"(103). This portrayal of Rochester is very vivid for the reader wondering who this mysterious creature could be. Bronte's eloquent use of diction transformed reality into a fantasy type sequence, almost dream-like. Jane Eyre describes a fantastic "lion-like" creature that is a mystical beast passing her. This is the beginning of her enchantment with ... ...

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... the time at the beginning of each descriptive section. The poem starts with the words "Twelve o"clock." This sets sets the scene and shows the main character's obsessive nature. The diction in this poem is greatly descriptive and allows the reader to really see things through the narrator's eyes. The first stanza illustrates to the reader the man's surroundings and the ... ...

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Through establishing gender roles as one of the primary motifs in the novel, Frank Norris projects Laura as a historically distinctive character. This is evidenced through both the diction surrounding the manner and the uniqueness of her actions, comparatively. At the mere mention of approaching Mr. Jadwin, Laura's culturally apt sister gasped with utter exaggeration. Page's lack of "words" ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . Hester is shunned by society at the beginning of the novel. The sin that she committed is considered to be irredeemable to the Puritan society. Although she committed adultery, Hawthorne's diction suggests that Hester is somewhat innocent. After she moves into the forest with Pearl and starts a new life, the scarlet letter on her chest has a new significance: The letter was ... ...

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... , implying that the audience were of a standard set of people. She tends to use a lot of colloquial slang in this passage too such as "gossib" (mate) "kaynard" (fool) "holour" (lecher). Diction such as this was likely to be used in the daily vocabulary of the people at the time he wrote the poem. We could presume that by using colloquial language ... ...

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... unknown. In the Emily Dickinson poems "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" and "I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died" one of life's greatest certainties is addressed through the use of structure, diction and syntax. The poems are equally effective in their treatment of this topic because one, without the other, does not yield the same impact but together the poems cause the ... ...

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... look to both "Anorexic" by Eavan Boland and "A Strange Beautiful Woman" by Marilyn Johnson to find examples of each body image. By examining when the poems were written, and the diction, tone, and overall meaning, of each poem, the reader can determine the kind of pressures society may have been placing on women in the 1980's. Written around the same time ... ...

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... 20 are often misunderstood. There have been countless essays written about Shakespeare's sexual preference because of sonnets like 116 and 20. One reason for this common misconception is the flowery diction which often makes little distinction between amorous love and platonic friendship of people of the same gender. Careful reading and separation of current societal values will show that it is ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School