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    Blah, blah, blah. Have you ever listened to a boring person speak with unmeaningful words and because of that you just don’t care anymore? Well, that person OBVIOUSLY doesn’t have good word choice. Day to day words flow out of your mouth, good or not, but sometimes you have to rise above the first level of that “Mario Kart Race Game.” Yeah! I see you. Listen up, you NEED to have incredible words to keep people’s eyes open! Surely, if someone is dozing off, texting, taking selfies, or doing anything

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    My book of choice was One Word That Will Change Your Life. My book discussed the importance of choosing one word to have your life revolve around. The book primarily shared stories of people who have used this philosophy. The reason the book emphasizes to only use one word instead of an expression or sentence, which is commonly used as a new years resolution; most everyone makes a new years resolution but over “50 percent of resolution makers will fail by the end of January” but “[m]ost resolutions

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    he is expressing what he sees in Juliet poetically. These sources convey that when a male feels a sense of attraction to someone, he can be shocked to a point that he does not realize he is allowing his emotion to be broadcasted verbally. The word choice in “Michelle” gives the reader a sense into the male character’s emotions by saying, “Sont les mots

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    Word Choice in The Catcher in the Rye By Tom Condon Word choice is a crucial element in a well-crafted story. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is about a 16-year-old in New York in the 1950's named Holden Caulfield. The book is about his exploration in the world as he suffers from severe mental trauma from his point of view. J.D. Salinger uses word choice for realism, theme, and depth of character to make the story relate to the reader and add dimension. The Catcher in Rye contains many

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    Edgar Allan Poe controlled his word choice in his story, The Cask Of Amontillado, by using words that elevated the story and created a consistent mood throughout it. Poe also chose words to make a somber or bleak outlook on life’s hidden meanings. In the story he compared the catacombs to the underground catacombs in Paris, due to the fact that they are lined to the brim with remains. He also referred to the nitre in the crypt by saying, “[O]bserve the white webwork which gleams from these cavern

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    I was three years old before I said my first word. I had an IEP throughout preschool. I made one best friend in kindergarten. I was afraid of the world and the people that occupied it. To say that this was just a phase was an understatement. Most little kids go through the phase of being terrified of strangers, but not all are paralyzed by it for several years. I was standing there digesting the events around me in the grocery store. People were talking, seemingly shouting, scuffling around the

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    The author of this book seems to give a mostly simple word choice for most of the characters of this book, and sets a more light hearted tone for the story, especially in the first half of the book. One of the characters who word choice reflects their character and gives insight to their traits is the main character, Perry. Quotes such as the following help to establish Perry's character, and gives us an idea of how he usually thinks. “It is called a compressor and makes a rumble rumble noise. It

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    Word choices is portrayed by Juliet's father, Lord Capulet, when he is mad at Juliet for not wanting to marry Paris. He believes that Juliet is ungrateful and doesn’t respect him or his choices to give her a happy planned out life. On page 239 Capulet says ‘’you green sickness carrion! Out you baggage you tallow face!, young disobedient baggage.” (Act 3 Scene 5). This shows word choices can be used to portray darkness when they're mad, but their words speak light when they are content. The author’s

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    In the novel “ Lord of the flies” author William Golding uses word choice to reveal the elements of a character's personality and how that personality develops over time . Through word choice , actions,looks and thoughts, the character of of Ralph is introduced , explained developed over the course of the of the text it reveals his attitude. First of all the story “Lord of the Flies” is a book about During a war, a plane carrying a group of boys on their way home from boarding school is shot down

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    In the story Night the author Elie Wiesel uses word choice to show the reader all the despair that he was witnessed since he entered the concentration camp. This is important to the narrative as a whole because it develops the the reader's understanding the character's internal conflict after what he's witnessed. This also connects back to the theme of dehumanization. When Elie and his father were walking towards the fire pit he thinks to himself “My heart was about to burst. There I was face-to-face

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