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    as demonstrated in two of his well-known short stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” His style is created by his use of punctuation, sentence structure, word choice, imagery, and tone. First off, punctuation-wise, dashes, exclamation marks, semicolons, and commas are a favorite of Poe. All this is shown in the first sentence of “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” The dashes take the place

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    Transcript of Chris Opening Monologue for the Oscars mainly conveys the unnecessity of boycotting the Oscars in a humorous way. He uses exclamation marks and question marks to make the audiences involved in the speech. He asserts them to question people who boycott racism. Moreover, he answers his own questions like; “Is it “Fetch me some lemonade” racist? No!” It creates Ethos in the audiences. Moreover, Rock also tries to find the real problem in Oscar. “He says we want the black actors to get

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    Act II, Scene IV of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, opens with an exchanged between Romeo’s companions, Benevolio and Meructio. Having attended Capulet’s party the night before, Benevolio informs Meructio that Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin and sworn enemy of the Montague’s, has sent Romeo’s father a letter. Meructio declares it a challenge, asking, “… is he a man to encounter Tybalt?” Benevolio retorts, “Why, what is Tybalt?,” Meructio elaborates by declaring: “More than Prince of Cats. Oh, he is the coura-

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    ELA6_SB_U4_L10_LC Lesson Construction Template Introduction and Objective “Let’s have a lemonade stand today,” said Allie to Mike. “Sounds like a great idea!” exclaimed Mike. “We need to make some signs.” “Ok,” said Allie, and she ran to get paper and markers. As they began writing the signs, Mike said, “It is important that our sign uses correct capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. If we don’t, it won’t look very professional and people might not pay attention.” “Great point,” replied

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    1. How are the Bennet sisters affected by the fact that their father's property is "entailed in default of heirs male". What does this mean? How are they affected? The Bennet sisters are affected greatly by the fact that their father's property is "entailed in default of heirs male" as they will not be able to inherit any of their father's wealth when he dies. Because there are no males in the Bennet family, the estate will be given to the closest male relation on the father's side of the family

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    Discoveries challenge societal and individual's beliefs of human relevance and identity through new experiences and other individuals who influence the transformation of one's inner self and the world they inhabit. Both the “The Tempest” and film “Into the wild” demonstrates the power of discovery in transforming one's perspective on themselves and the world. Shakespeare’s, “The Tempest” explores the universe as impersonal, insinuating human irrelevance and the need for others in self transformation

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    not have the same opinion as her mother, she trusted the boy’s personality, she does not feel any difference between them. The tension between the mother and the daughter builds towards a climax by using the question marks and exclamation points. There is total 11 exclamation points use in the conversation, which indicates high volumes of the conversation and strong feelings between mother and daughter. The question marks show mother and the daughter are

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    really love how the poet empathized and encouraged his readers to treat their lives in a meaningful way. For example, in the second stanza, he uses a didactic tone to say, “Life is real! Life is earnest!” He repeated the word life twice with the exclamation marks to put emphasis to the readers about his point. His major point is that life is real and serious and it is not something that can be treated in an inessential or meaningless way. He also asserts that valuable life comes from taking actions

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    Shakespeare has created the act two soliloquy "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I" to give the audience deeper insights into Hamlets internal conflicts surrounding his attempt to fulfil his pledge of avenging his father's death. In this soliloquy Shakespeare has revealed Hamlet feelings of inadequacy due to his inability to act and the reasons behind his inaction. Shakespeare also uses this soliloquy to set up the play within the play as the climax at which point Hamlet will be forced to be the

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    Othello Passage Analysis

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    speaks his only line in the passage, and thus deems Iago as an effective manipulator. A literary feature that is very common in this passage is diction, as Iago uses exclamation marks to a large extent and many descriptive words that would be used in the manipulation of someone. Using more expressive punctuation marks such as exclamation marks rather

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