Have you ever read a book that described a scene so vividly that it almost felt real? This is called imagery; one of the many literary devices that authors use to enhance the reader’s experience. In the short story “A Kind of Murder”, Hugh Pentecost uses these devices effectively to augment and make the reader’s experience more authentic. One of the ways that Pentecost makes effective use of these is to depict events in great detail. For example, in the text, when Old Beaver walks into the study hall when the boys are being disrespectful, “The study hall was quiet as a tomb.
Everywhere people look, listen, and interact, there is an attempt to market them for one purpose or another; some are obvious, while others are harder to detect. Metaphors and analogies in political marketing help us understand complex topics in simpler terms. Meanwhile, specific familiar language shapes a pre-conditioned perspective in our minds of how we interpret an idea. In the rhetorical environment of politics during the 2008 presidential election, exaggerated ethical, logical, and emotional appeals whose purpose is to entice, deter, or convert a person’s view on a subject perturbed many good-willed Americans. By breaking down the individual parts of an advertisement it is discovered how they all relate back to each other to create an effective lure, or not.
In his satirical essay, “The Damned Human Race”, Mark Twain sets off on an uphill battle, to try and convince the entire human race to change its ways. Twain attempts to prove that morality, like any other virtue, has a dark side and this has been the cause of many of man’s problems. In a cynical tone, he uses extensive comparisons posed as experiments to point out the irony in Man’s decision to place themselves at the top of the hierarchy of all living things, based solely on their possession of a moral compass. Twain first utilizes comparisons in the form of experiments to aid his argument about the selfish cruelty of man. In this essay, his first experiment is on greed.
In the past, the Arab and Muslim culture has been seen as exotic, uncivilized, inferior and primitive. Today, the terms “terrorist “and “blood-thirsty” have been over-generally attributed to the Arabs and Muslims. Said’s Orientalism analysis
Current president Barack Obama gives a speech at Wakefield high school in Arlington, Virginia. The main theme is “everyone is equal and have the same opportunities”. Nothing comes easy in life and you have to work hard for it. The intention of the speech is to motivate the American students. Do your homework, take responsibility for your life and take your school seriously.
As religion is used to justify violent behaviour, yet simultaneously the same religious ideology is able to fuel peaceful thought. The surrounding context of religious violence is important in understanding the act itself. It is also important to reflect
