In the novel Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech, Jack grows tremendously throughout the course of his school year. He grows tremendously through the extended teaching of Miss Stretchberry, and this teaching allows him to learn more and become a better poet. One way she helps him became a better poet is by teaching him about the use of alliteration in poems (14). This helps Jack expand his knowledge of all of the different literary devises you can use in a poem, which also gets him thinking more and about what all and how he could use this literary devise in his poems. The second way she helps him grow as a poet is by teaching him about onomatopoeias (19).
In Lauren Oyler’s article “The Case for Semicolons”, she persuasively argues the merit and use of semicolons in a time where the grammatical symbol of punctuation is used sparingly by the literary community and broader public by extension. Oyler accomplishes this by successfully integrating various rhetorical strategies and modes of thought to appeal to her audience. Likewise, Oyler attempts to further her argument first by providing a personal experience from her own life, and how the philosophy she gathered from it could be applied to the semicolon. From there on, Oyler argues that the semicolons’ ambiguity and flexibility make them useful for setting near any tone one desires. Oyler concludes her article by arguing that the semicolon asserts
In All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy writes from the third person limited perspective of the young, poor cowboy, John Grady Cole. Because of John Grady's socioeconomic status and his age, the reader assumes that he is poorly educated and considers him more street-smart (resourceful) than book-smart (intelligent). McCarthy's style, which is characterized by a lack of quotation marks and apostrophes, except when using certain contractions, reinforces this assumption. Because all of these elements are so noticeable to readers, it makes McCarthy's point evident that his characters are simple people. This absence of quotation marks also forces the reader to pay more attention to what (s)he is reading, because otherwise (s)he either won't know
This is an example of changing the situation. B. Based on Critchley’s article humor functions as anti-depressant by allowing the cognitive relation to, oneself and the world. “Humor has the same formal structure as depression but it’s an anti-depressant”. It’s a way to suppress depression by being able to find positive functions for the superego.
For example, Twain creates humor by using hyperboles and understatement, while Douglass uses no emotional words or word choice. Twain used a lighthearted yet semi-serious tone in his writing to give the best description of the story as possible. “[...] instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, "S-t-e-a-mboat a-comin'!" and the scene changes!” This shows the semi-serious tone of Twain’s text.
In addition, Kevin Young uses a heavy dose of similes. These similes provoke images that are intended to describe the setting, mood, or tone. Lastly, Young has adopted a couplet or triplet style of writing. All these ways has given Kevin Young a unique modus operandi that’s highly relatable and enjoyable to read.
The Impact of Humor As Leo Rosten, an American humorist and author states, “Humor is the affectionate communication of insight” Humor is an intelligent way to enforce an argument to your audience. With the employment of humor, the authors are able to persuade their readers into understanding, and sometimes agreeing with their opinions. Humor allows authors to have the insight about their topic thus, giving the author credibility and zealousness. In Laura Fraser's essay, “Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian”, she employs the element of humor to strengthen her essay in a myriad of ways.
Michaela Cullington was a former student at University in Pennsylvania when she wrote the essay of “Does Texting Affect Writing?” Have you ever thought if texting truly effects our writing style when it comes to college levels? Cullington did research of her own from different people group asking this question. Her thesis sentence was “IT TAKES OVER OUR LIVES” (…). The way that she capitalized all the letters is something that can engage the reader and the curiosity of knowing what is taking our lives?
In her essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” Michaela Cullington addresses the issue of text messaging possibly causing poor communication skills and the use of textspeak, abbreviations used during text messaging such as “LOL” and “g2g,” in students’ formal writing. Cullington argues that “texting actually has a minimal effect on student writing” (pg. 367). She addresses the opposition directly, even citing credible sources. However, she also cites credible sources with better information to support her point, and even conducts an experiment of her own.
This figuration of the tone would make the understanding while reading really easy, but require to follow the tone and be engaged on it. In ‘ As Canadian As Possible Under The Circumstances’ everyone agree that its text really hard because of the serious tone that have been used on it. The existence of most of the punctuation marks and the complicated words through the text is one of the major sign about the high complexity of the text. Even though, the tone was really serious and complex, the idea of irony required that tone because of the huge small details that found in each side of it. “ Novelist Susan Swan recently told me that she saw irony as a “nice form of dishonesty” and that was why polite Canadians excelled at it.
In Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns Ivins uses sarcastic humor, and analogies effectively when criticizing the gun laws that America has today. Ivins uses sarcasm and humor to mock her position on guns. Ivins also uses analogies. The use of these two devices make her argument very persuasive in her criticism. The points she brings up along with the rhetorical devices that she uses makes the satire effective.
The first thing I did when I went to go read this essay was look up in the index what it focused on, when I saw that it was Language and Communication I thought to myself “oh my gosh this is going to be so boring”, but once I read it I actually thought it was extremely comical. When I think about punctuation I immediately freeze, but the way Lewis told his story about how to use punctuation was brilliant. In this essay, Lewis talked about how to use parenthesis, commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation points, quotation marks, and the dash; However, my favorite section was when he was talking about comma usage.
To start off, the author, uses the message to help convey irony. For example, as the party has started,
A humorous tone, achieved through the use of diction, allows Pi to see events in such a way that they become amusing, rather than confusing or frightening. For example, after hearing
One of the most valuable aspects of personality is humor – we value one’s sense of humor and make friends often based on finding certain things funny. But how and why do we consider things to be funny at all? Human beings have strived to uncover fundamental truths about human nature for centuries – even millennia – but humor itself is still yet to be pinpointed. Henri Bergson is only one of many who has attempted this feat, and his essay Laughter: an essay on the meaning of the comic from 1911 breaks down comedy into what he believes to be its essential forms and origins. While Bergson makes many valid points, Charlie Chaplin’s film Modern Times that was brought to screens only twenty years later seems to contradict many of Bergson’s theories, while Bergson seems to contradict even himself over the course of his essay.
