Fighting words

Spoken Words. They can do anything. They can bring comfort to an old friend. They can sing happy birthday to a little boy whose balloons are slowly sinking. Words have power. Words are power. Words can change someone's mindset. It can alter one's belief. A simple choice of word can make all the difference. You can have the most beautiful thing to say, but say it with the wrong words, in the wrong tone (pshh) within a split second it's gone. Watch your words. See, words are one of the most powerful

Many of the words that soldiers used to describe their surroundings and themselves had negative underlying meanings and many of the platoon members and O’Brien (p.54) believed it wasn’t fair that they were out fighting a war while everyone else was back home. The implementation of new words and phrases into the story gave the setting a more authentic feel and added depth to the characters in the book

repetition, parallelism, and many others to draw vivid images and provide an easier structure to comprehend his speech. Duty, Honor, Country is what every soldier wants to be able to say with a purpose. General Douglas McArthur repeats those three words multiple times throughout his speech. They are the focus

were caused by the political opression in London. Blake was angered by what he saw in his homeland as other countries started fighting for their indipendence and equality whilst his country stayed dormant, eventhough he felt that there was a serious need for serious action. Eventhough Blake wasn't a typical romantic writer, he too possesed the same beliefs of fighting for what one believes in, and the urge to be liberated from the opression of

attention from everyone else and when he does not get the attention he gets upset. One of Piaget’s first stage of development is called ‘preoperational stage’. This stage, as defined by Santrock, is “when children being to represent the world with words, images, and drawings, and symbolic thought goes

hour after arriving. Since the number of survivors were next to none, it is hard for us to understand or even put this horror into words. In this book, Patrick Hicks uses the narrator to point out the inadequacy of language to represent Lubizec. Especially throughout chapter two, Life in a Death Camp, the narrator stops to point out the difficulty of trying to find words to describe this camp entirely. Lubizec was created to kill Jews as quickly and efficiently as possible. 99 percent of people who

rhetoric devices such as diction, imagery, and sentence structure to raise their morale and gain loyalty as a woman in power. Queen Elizabeth skillfully used diction throughout her speech to motivate the troops. In the speech, Queen Elizabeth used the word “we” four times to underscore her feeling of unity between her and her country. She conveyed her care about the welfare of everyone in the country. This inspired the soldiers to remain patriotic and want to fight for their nation. In addition, the

impacts. Actions do truly speak louder than words. Words have some effects on the world to a point, but actions are the real hands that mold the clay that is the world. Actions show true feelings towards something, they get the point across more effectively, and they also show the power of the person(s) committing the actions. First and foremost, actions have a greater impact towards something. Actions have a more precise meaning towards something than words. For example, in 1945 even after the germans

The very core of development is change. Sometimes bad, sometimes good, change always leads to a shift in personality. “Crossing the Swamp” by Mary Oliver is a journey of escape as the speaker, who is in a struggle to improve herself, is desperately fighting to come to a place of salvation. The speaker has a relationship of fear and animosity towards the swamp, being a metaphor for the very thing weighing her down, which is equivalent to the relationship of fear and animosity that she has towards the

based on several exceptional aspects that it involves. The uses of rhetoric’s, word play/choices, and especially the metaphors that painted a picture for the audience. “I have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr. was powerfully effective based on his knowledge of word play, rhetorical devices and tone. Firstly, an aspect that I undoubtedly enjoyed was the power of word choices and tones MLK made in his speech. Most word choices were scholarly chosen so that they evoked emotion and would make a