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1) Throughout the passage, the author creates an obvious and overwhelming mood of fear, horror, and dread through descriptions, vocabulary, and literary devices. For example, when the passage says, "little ice-cold hand," it almost makes us feel like we are in a dream or the same state the narrator is in. An example of how the passage uses vocabulary to create these feelings or the story's mood is when the author uses the word tenacious, which allows us to feel the horror of the sound the protagonist hears. An example of the author using literary devices to create the mood is the phrase, "a most melancholy voice, sobbed, 'Let me in! let me in!'" This phrase allows us to feel the horror directly and establishes the mood for the rest of the story. …show more content…

For example, the word "importunate" and the phrase "terror made me cruel" would be difficult to understand without context.  The word importunate in this passage describes the sound the protagonist is trying to silence. There are many other more familiar words with the same meaning, as importunate, such as the word persistent or unrelenting. Therefore, many readers don't encounter or fully understand the word importunate. Since we are provided context to this word, readers can better comprehend it. We know the definition of importunate, which is "persistently demanding attention or effort," is remarkably similar to the context because, in the story, the protagonist is trying to muffle the sound that is insistent and persistent. The phrase "terror made me cruel" may be perplexing without context readers. It is not understandable how fear can lead to cruelty. But within the passage's context, this could be described as the protagonist's behavior as they are confronted with a child's hand and imploring face. This phrase describes the influence of fear on behavior and thought and how the effect of fear can drive individuals to do something that may be regarded as cruel. The vocabulary choices used in the passage are not common, and many words, such as "obscurely" and "tenacious," cannot be fully understood without context.

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Mahmud 1 Sharoze Mahmud Mr.B AP Lang and Comp March 17th, 2016 Columnist Assignment: David Brooks, The New York Times Article 1: The Benedict Option I. Annotation Author's Purpose: This is a critical review of the ideas expressed in Rod 'Dreher's book, The Benedict Option. Dreher sees the cultural wars over new realities (such as LGBT) as a threat to Christian faith, and suggests the option of St. Benedict (sixth-century monk) during the fall of the Roman empire, i.e. withdraw from the mainstream and establish

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The author creates a sorrowful

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The author also uses rhetorical devices such as allusion seeing in his thought and dreams death, and amplification of his surrounds of murder. The author argues throughout the story if he believes their is a god after the horrors he has been through. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.... Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself.

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It is what makes the reader understand the story and feel the gravity of what happened to these people. That tone makes the reader understand that this could happen to almost

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In the excerpt, “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” written by Stephen King, he argues that that we all have a little bit of insanity in all of us, and we all express it in different ways, from the chills to the guilty pleasure. It’s like we are attracted to horror movies, but we never really knew it. So, King uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to support the allure of horror movies. He uses these strategies to describe what horror movies make us feel like and it’s impressive.

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For instance, descriptive imagery along with metaphorical language were used to compare the harsh conditions at camp to the calming natural surroundings. These differing simultaneous occurrences brought on the mood of seriousness, bitterness, and uncertainty of the future. This can be thoroughly demonstrated, in one of the rising actions of the story, in the fifth and sixth paragraphs of page 33, when the Jews were being selected either for labour or for death. The text says, "The world? The world is not interested in us.

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This is why this literary device was not as good as other to better understand the

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When the prisoner was looking "towards the South", he said "There was some sense of freedom in the vast expanse, inaccessible though it was to me, as of compared with the narrow darkness of the courtyard. Looking out of this, I felt that I was indeed in prison, and I seemed to want a breath of fresh air, though it were of the night" (lines 38-41). Along with this, a feeling had overcome the captives body and he said, "I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me; I am in fear-in awful fear-and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of" (lines 55-56). The use of the first person point of view of the prisoner was able to establish the central idea of the fear that he was imprisoned and was not going to be able to

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He utilizes understandable language to help him precisely get across the point he is trying to make. An instance of this word use can be seen in his recollection of his family being split apart. Page 19 shares that "My father was crying... It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible.

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The reader can vividly understand something clearly at last being shone on the shrubbery and how you could have mistaken the lights for a fire. This is a notable example of how authors can use figurative language to

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In A Cold Manipulation Of Language, Melissa W. Noel analyzes Capote’s In Cold Blood to help students develop an awareness of the author's’ intentions and to understand how writers use language to change readers perspectives (Noel 51). According to the March 2011 edition of the English Journal, authors will habitually use literary devices like “tone, diction, syntax, attitude, and style” to manipulate language in order to have their desired effect on the intended audience, much like Henry James does in the Turn of the Screw (Noel 51). A literary device James uses frequently throughout the Turn of the Screw is ambiguity, a term coined to describe when a phrase or word has more than one meaning. The way James constructs sentences is done very

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In the short story, A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury, it creates an intense tone for the reader. An example of this intense tone is “terrible scream”. This shows us that when The Monster lets out this sound, it’s so loud and vile, to where we can almost hear it in our heads. We can sense that Bradbury wants us to picture what this scream sounded like, to almost feel like we, the readers, were actually there experiencing it. And he wants us to have a better idea of what's happening in the story.

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Throughout the passage, dark and foreboding imagery is used to describe the mindset of Prynne. At first,

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Subsequently, even though the reader did not know exactly what to expect, the mood was set though word choices early on. Wolff used phrases like, “tragic”, “murderous temper”, “damned unfair” and “unforgivable” to, in a sense, foreshadow the upcoming events (34). Wording can make or break a story, and in this case these words became the foundation for the dark turn to come.

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one of the many times he uses imagery throughout this story is when the narrator says, “on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows” (Pg 1). By using imagery to compare walking through the neighborhood as walking through a graveyard shows that it is completely silent and there is no activity in any of the houses. Most people wouldn't describe their neighborhood as a graveyard, this also develops the mood. Another time he uses imagery is when the narrator says, “The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in mid-country” (1). This shows mood because the narrator describes him as a hawk in mid-country, that means that he is all alone in what he feels to be like a barren or abandoned place.

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