Unfortunately, today you will die if you do not read this letter carefully. Firstly, this evening a soldier came to your door dressed in grey clothes of the South. He is not who he seems to be. This man is a Federal Scout.
A letter from William Bent to William Medill on Nov. 10th 1846 states that the “Agents and Subagents are absolutely necessary for the regulation and control of the various tribes of Indians above named. A very desirable effect might be produced upon the Indians by sending a delegation from each tribe to Washington.” Bent provides the numbers of souls and ledges of each of the tribes in New Mexico, totalling 36,950 people from ten different tribes. In later letters, when Calhoun writes to Orlando Brown regarding adding resources to the Indian office in Santa Fe, including more agents and subagents, Brown is unwilling to offer such resources. The lack of allocation of agents could have been due to the change in authority in Washington as opposed to personal preference; this theory seems unsustainable.
In January of 1780, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her son John Quincy Adams while he was traveling abroad with his father, John Adams. Throughout the letter Abigail Adams utilizes the Aristotelian appeal pathos to appeal to her son’s emotions, along with a metaphor and an allusion to explain to him how he can grow up to be successful in life to John Quincy through any hardships he may have faced while traveling overseas. Abigail Adams establishes pathos throughout the letter. An example of this is when she adopts a maternal tone. She uses the words “My son” throughout the letter to personalize her writing.
Also, I found this particular piece to be difficult to read and interpret. The varying spelling and sentence structure made the letter difficult to follow, and I found myself rereading sections to verify that I understood what she was writing
To start off, Abigail Adams appeals to her son’s emotions by starting off the letter with “my dear son.” By using this introduction, it informs her son that she is being sincere and affectionate towards him. She, also, uses the power of ethos by flattering him with the talents and triumphs he is set with. This is exhibited in the third paragraph when she insists that he is bestowed with “superior advantages.” This flattery persuades and encourages him into continuing his use of the set of advantages he has received.
In Annabel lee by Edgar Allen Poe the use of his tone words has an overall effect of the mood. He uses all of these connotative tone words to show the loving tone it has. The connotative words he uses are very deep and passionate words about his love to Annabel Lee. Edgar said that she loved him and he loved her. That they thought about nothing else but to love and be loved by one another.
Through the use of allusions, pathos, and precise language, Adams is able to effectively advise her son. These rhetorical devices are used to help ingrain confidence in her son, establish the emotional connection between mother and son, and outline her expectations for her son. Adams’ use of allusions helps her son become more confident in his abilities. In line 40 of her letter, Adams asks “Would Cicero have shone so distinguished an orator if he had not been roused, kindled, and inflamed by the tyranny of Catiline, Verres and Mark Anthony?”. Through this allusion, Adams portrays the message that one needs to face great adversity before they can become great.
Major Sullivan Ballou wrote a letter to say his final goodbyes to his wife in days of his life. He continuously changed his persona to demonstrate the many complex layers and emotions he was experiencing. He knew, targeted, and addressed his audience with different strategies in order to convey his point. He exercised numerous rhetorical strategies throughout the piece including distinctive diction and a strong voice. As the speaker, Sullivan Ballou used the Rhetorical Situation effectively in his goodbye letter to his wife Sarah by identifying his audience and communicating his purpose.
“Something of all that I have gone through myself. I have never known perfect health… [I have felt] the wants of others as my own...” (lines 34-38). Lewes uses personal confessions, as seen in this quote, thought her letter to heighten the effectiveness of this letter.
And, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death. (kisses JULIET, takes out the poison) Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide. Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick, weary bark. Here’s to my love!
Further, Phoebe's letter develops to show an archaic poetic diction in line 45 with 'whiles and eyne in line 48, and throughout her declaration for Ganymede, Phoebe uses many rhyming couplets with 'eyne' and 'mine' (48-9), 'effect' and 'aspect' (50-1), 'thee' and 'me' (54-5), 'mind' and 'kind' (56-7), and a personification in line 48 with 'if'. The devices suggest romantic gesture and inner feelings towards Ganymede. Silvius the 'poor shepherd' (4.3.62) as Celia called still debating about the 'chiding' or scolding words Rosalind mentioned before. However, Rosalind feel no 'pity' (63) for him, and her reply expressed an antimetabole in line 64 and 65. Also, Rosalind continues telling Silvius in an angry tone, that he will be the messenger
In order to persuade her son to value the life of experience, she uses the rhetorical devices such as allusion and pathos. Throughout Adam's letter, she uses pathos to amplify the emotions throughout the letter. She does this by using an encouraging maternal tone. Adams repeats the words "my son" and starts the letter out with "my dearest son," to establish that she is a loving
Another literary technique that can be seen in this extract is the use of similes. This is most evident in the line “L’épouse de Ling était frêle comme un roseau, enfantine comme du lait, douce comme la salive, salée comme les larmes.” This line gives a descriptive description of Ling’s wife. It helps us understand what Ling’s wife is like by comparing her to different things such as “un roseau” or “du lait”. The author chose these words because they are something that we are familiar with so that we are able to grasp them quickly.
In this passage, Shakespeare utilizes metaphor and negative diction to characterize Romeo as a person who is conflicted and frustrated by love, which ultimately reveals the theme that love is uncontrollable, conflicting, and short-lived. Towards the end of act 1 scene 1, Romeo still has a big crush on Rosaline, but Rosaline has no feelings for him. Hence, Romeo experienced a sense of depression and is conflicted by love. In this passage, Shakespeare uses numerous metaphors. “Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.”
The more the couple continues to talk to each other, the less they communicate with the result that the language disappears itself: that means that mechanical phrases return into senseless sentences and finally lead to meaningless words together with pronounced chaotic sounds. At the end, the characters getting totaly frustrated being unable to communicate due to the very reduced and primitive level of their used vocabulary rather than simply chatter or permit a stylistic and sophisticated language style combined with the typical grammer of the English language. Ionesco therefore provoked the audiance to become aware of the tragedy of human communication. Ionesco illustrates this mess of
