Staying fat for serra burns essay
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Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
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Tone
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Tone is a noun – so the description of tone is always an adjective and more specifically, an adjective of attitude:
Attitude of pleasure – peaceful, cheerful, joyful, playful, satisfied
Attitude of pain – worried, vexed, annoyed, sorrowful, sullen, bitter, irritable, disgusted, disappointed
Attitude of passion – nervous, hysterical, reckless, desperate, furious, enraged, angry, jealous
Attitude of self-control – calm, solemn, serene, gentle, temperate, wary, cautious, nonchalant
Attitude of friendliness – cordial, tolerant, gracious, compassionate, pitying, loving, tender
Attitudes of unfriendliness – sharp, cutting, spiteful, scornful, contemptuous, belittling, disparaging
Attitudes of comedy – ironic, mocking, playful, humorous, facetious, flippant
An essay: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Am essay: Possible prosecutional summation to the jury used to convict Justine
Frankenstein: Possible Prosecutionl Summation
Iliad Author, Selection and Connection Summaries
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Iliad Author, Selection & Connection Summaries
Author Summary: Oral poetry was developed in Greece before writing was, so the poetry was either memorized or improvised depending on the poet/actor as long as they had the basic plot line it worked. When writing finally appeared, the poems were written down. Even though people consider Homer the greatest oral poet of his time, no one knows anything about him for sure. Legend says that he was blind, and that he composed the two building blocks of epic poetry, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which in are presumed to have originated in the 7th or 8th century BCE.
SAT Vocabulary #3
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David Kang Per. 5 10/5/10 English SAT Vocabulary #3 Definitions artifice (the use of) a clever trick or something intended to deceive trickery; guile; craftiness cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness cacophony an unpleasant mixture of loud sounds harsh discordance of sound; dissonance a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds dastardly evil and cruel cowardly; meanly base; sneaking effete weak and without much power lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent unable to produce; sterile fetter (n. , v.) to keep someone within limits or stop them making progress to tie someone to a place by putting chains around their ankles a chain or shackle placed on the feet (Usually, fetters) anything that confines or restrains harpy a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman; shrew
Great Gatsby Intro and Body paragraph
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Cosenza Stephen Cosenza Honors English The Great Gatsby Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans. -Fitzgerald, pg. 122
"The Bet" Vocabulary
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Frivolous: person who is carefree and not serious; banker was ?frivolous? Trifle: a thing of little value of importance; ?two millions are a trifle? Audible: able to be heard Immense: extremely large or great; ?immense quantity of books? Fleeting: lasting for a very short time; describing the world Contempt: the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn; banker felt ?contempt for himself? Zealous: marked by interest and enthusiasm; ?studying zealously? Reckoning: the action or process of calculating or estimating something Sensational: very impressive Treatise: written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject Illusory: based on illusion; not real Stifle: suffocate Ethereal: heavenly; too perfect for the world
Odyssey Book 1 + 2 Notes
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Notes 8/25/10 8:57 AM Muse is Calliope of Epic Poetry Invocation is the act of calling upon a spirit or deity for help Act of humility by asking the Muse Odysseus? men plundered Troy of its dignity and its women Death of shipmates, they killed and ate the Sun?s cattle, who killed them Men bring about their own doom, gods warned Aegisthus not to kill Agamemnon, but he still did, so Orestes killed him Athena feels that Odysseus has suffered enough, been away from family for 20 years, trapped on Calypso?s island Athena plans to put some courage and hope in Telemachus that his father is alive and he can fight the suitors Also she sends Hermes to Calypso to make her release Odysseus
Stamps
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Stamps, Arkansas Stamps is the place Maya grew up with her grandmother. Her grandmother owned the only black store in Stamps and supplied workers with food. The setting of the book had a connection with the tone because where she lived it was very racist and she lived among many whites. This made one of the major themes of the book which was the way Maya had to deal with racism and tried to stop it. This also helped show her tone which was kind of angry towards the whites for treating her family so poorly. It also made the theme of perseverance to try and avoid and stop the racism happening in Stamps. ?In our society, where two-legged, two-armed strong Black men were able at best to eke out only the necessities of life, Uncle Willie, with his starched shirts
Ender's Game Vocabulary definitions
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Ender?s Game Vocabulary Words Acquiescence (noun) - permission given by silence or passiveness -As I was speaking, I looked over to my boss to make sure I can talk about the current subject, and his acquiescence allowed me to continue. Demagogue (noun)- a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power -Hitler was a very good demagogue because he always motivated and flattered the German race. Exploit (noun)- a notable or heroic act -I will exploit Jake for rescuing the drowning girl form the pool. Hegemony (noun)- type of empire, wherein, the imperial state controls the subordinate state with power (the perception that it can enforce its political goals), rather than
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