Pronouns

“The Bloody Chamber” by Angela Carter reimagines the fairy tale “Bluebeard.” Her rendition creates more dimensional characters and builds stronger relationships by thoroughly detailing interactions. She uses thorough prose to explore the depth of a romantic relationship and its accompanying obligations. However, the central characters remain the same, and the plots mirror one another despite different settings. The timeline of events varies drastically, the period of a month condensed to two…

Orestes’ actions, their true passion lies more in his punishment than any other part of their speech. This thesis will be demonstrated through the analysis of passages through the lens of the following principles of close reading: temporal order, pronouns, and repetition. On page 243, lines two hundred fifty five to two hundred seventy one, the Furies are talking about Orestes’s actions, how they feel about Orestes killing Clytemnestra, and the punishment they expect to be put on Orestes for his…

detachment.Each one of those "you"s mean a significant allegation. Kincaid utilizes her logical selections of pronouns, rehashed all…

warm and I feel so good that I am actually going to tack off my jacket” which is a play of word and a joke which was said to make the audience feel more comfortable with Obama. He said “we can be more formal among friends “ where he used personal pronoun “we” which made the audience feel as one with Obama. He also called the audience his friends which made the people feel more comfortable. Obama said that Berliners carved out an island of democracy which is a metaphor which shows that they did…

Adam B. Summers wrote a persuasive editorial, “Bag Ban Bad for freedom and Environment,” using many persuasive details to make his argument. Summers is able to appeal and relate to his audience. The different tactics that Summers uses is rallying pronouns, hard, cold facts, and extensive support and diction. The author writes about how banning plastic bags is hurtful to the world and economy in many ways. With deliberate thought, Summers chooses words like “us” or “our”, in the first paragraph.…

The choice of diction allows the study to be quite straightforward and helps readers to understand the text in a simplistic way. Schwartz utilizes a lot of pronouns such as “we”, “you” and “I” to once again add to the inclusive strategy. These pronouns effectively strengthen the persuasive effect of the article as it insinuates that the readers share and agrees viewpoint presented. This type of diction also allows the author to address the audience…

anonymous man as “that”. In doing so, Light reveals the extent of her own revulsion and creates a disgusted tone from the poem’s onset; according to Light, this unnamed being is not a person, but an object to be jilted and, as such, does not deserve pronouns, let alone the love of the poem’s target.…

Discrimination in the workplace has become less common up-to-date, yet still occurs almost daily for the working LGBT body. Homosexuality and LGBT used to be widely seen as a disorder, which caused a horrendous amount of discrimination, especially for those in a workplace environment. Schools, government agencies and companies, as well as the military, continuously refused to employ individuals believed to be homosexual. In Social Problems, John J. Macionis dedicates a chapter to sexual…

Happy letter!”, a poem where Dickinson actively switches pronouns between drafts. While the poem itself is about the nature of correspondence, the images elicited throughout the versions, from tugged bodices to coquettish letters to bashful expressions, provoke feelings of sensuality that could certainly be attributed…

latter, as he writes of an impassive being posing as grass. He captures the unbiased perspective of nature and illustrates how pointless human warfare is to a being above such trivial matters. Sandburg, in his poem Grass, intertwines proper nouns, pronouns, and imperative verbs to illustrate how superficial human conflicts are from the perspective of nature. In “Grass,” the speaker uses proper nouns to put the poem in perspective. Five proper nouns are used throughout this…