Rhetorical Analysis Of John Alcott's The Awakening

Furthermore, the noble feature of courage was also expressed in John Proctor when he chooses to be hanged over living in shame with his name on the church door. “God does not need my name nailed upon the church! God sees my name; God knows how black my sins are! It is enough!” John argued to keep his name off the church door (Miller 142).

It doesn’t matter if it comes from a Talib or from cancer… ”(Yousafzai, pg.118) Although her father wasn’t exactly convinced, Malala would continue to fight for what she believes

1. “The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies, he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, …” (Vonnegut, 26) I like this quote because it makes me think of Heaven.

I mean if you tell old Phoebe something she knows exactly what the hell you’re talking about” (105). Holden loves his sister very much and has never said that she was a phony. She always gave him some hope in the world and he was most likely hanging onto his life using that hope. On one hand, I agree that Holden would have used Phoebe as a reason to live. But, on the other hand, I still insist that what he was going through would have become too much for him to handle.

In the story “In Cold Blood” Truman Capote uses a tone of “somber” by expressing how death causes the reflection of life. Capote uses the word "life", something that we all know is a grave matter that we wouldn't want to lose. The confrontation towards the man’s feelings of the passing of the Clutter family makes him feel melancholy. He says “it was a melancholy task” knowing that Kenyon was no longer there to help.

The irony is that McMurphy first enters the ward as sane as can be to never leaving the place of corrupt ruling because he ends up dying in the ward. According to Jean Griffon she expresses that “This conflict is further complicated by Kersey’s use of Christ imagery to describe McMurphy, leading readers to regularly accept McMurphy’s death as a selfless sacrifice for the greater good. This particular reading can only result from readers missing the irony. ”(Griffin 25) However it is also ironic because he is seen as a heroic figure to the patients and usually in

Everyone from the president of the United States, to the common man will all meet at the grave. This poem will forever serve as a reminder in American literature in that death is peaceful, rather than

Situational irony grabs the reader’s attention because what the reader thinks is going to happen doesn't necessarily happen. The readers were not looking for Abigail to be lying, deceiving and guilty of committing adultery. Irony is the most important piece in a

Short Essay #1 Thesis Statement: The Roman concepts of auctoritas and pietas as portrayed in The Aeneid by Virgil exemplify their view of death as something that should be handled with dignity, since it was an inevitability. These concepts also highlight the idea that, because death was unavoidable, it should be for a higher cause (e.g. for the gods, for the state, etc.). Evidence for Paragraph I: Dido served as a non-example of auctoritas because she neglected her state and let it fall to ruin when she fell in love with Aeneas.

Flannery O’Connor expresses the theme of pride in her short stories, “Good Country People”, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, and “The Displaced Person”. Hulga Hopewell thinks she is above Manley Pointer and can out smart him. Mr. Shiftlet claims everyone else is slime and should b washed away when in reality it is him who is slime. Mrs. McIntyre watches a worker get killed to save herself the trouble of firing him.

This is a typical sermon of the Great Awakening, emphasizing the belief that Hell is a real place. Edwards hoped that the imagery and language of his sermon would awaken audiences to the horrific reality that he believed awaited them should they continue life without devotion to Christ. The author's tone throughout this selection is threatening, cautionary, condemning, unsympathetic, and strict. Jonathan Edwards uses threatening imagery in order to provoke change. The most famous image used is that of a "loathsome insect."

In the passage from The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the arrangement, ordering, grouping, and placement of words to form phrases, clauses, and sentences works to strengthen the argument of the narrator. By employing his many syntactic dexterities, the narrator aims to persuade the audience that Judge Pyncheon is guilty. Through his use of syntax, tone, diction, and characterization, The narrator persuades the reader to assume the true nature of Judge Pyncheon. Hawthorne begins the passage with an exclamatory infinitive fragment. This sentence arrives out of nowhere, no previously stated explanation given, and exists to draw attention to a “tran of remark” made about Judge Pyncheon.

In “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, the author uses diction like abstract diction and details by explaining what he exactly wants in life to demonstrate Walter and his dream. To begin, Hansberry uses diction to demonstrate Walter and his dream by using abstract diction. She does this by explaining how he will give Travis anything for his seventeenth birthday and that he will “hand you the world!” (2.2). This shows that he wants to make his sons life as good as possible.

Three elements that are noticeable in the dead man’s pockets is a tone of being scared and afraid, and one element that helps the tone is the diction the author the uses to explain all the details. The tone is a set tone of fear. The reasons for this is the surrealism as he attempts to grab the yellow paper which had fluttered to the outside of the windowsill. The author cements this tone more towards the middle to end of the story as he hangs over the edge of the windowsill nearly falling over as he attempts to grab the yellow paper which he at the time valued so much.