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    Elegaic Tone In Anglo-Saxon oral tradition‚ lyric poems have elegiac tone. Both "The Seafarer" and "The Wanderer" are examples of lyric poems with elegiac tone. In "The Seafarer" the speaker is out at sea and is lonely and misses land. in line three the speaker says‚ "And forth in sorrow and fear and pain showed me sufering in a hundred ships"(3-4). This is a great example of elegiac tone because he is talking about his sowrrows and pains at sea. Another example in "The Seafarer" is when

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    Mini Essay 1 – Writing Identities Tone deals with the way a person voices his or her statements. It shifts according to the situation we’re in and the people or audience we target. When communicating with others‚ the tone of voice one person uses can affect the atmosphere of the conversation. It can either be a positive or negative tone depending on what the topic may be about. Tone is used whenever we speak to people so that they understand what we’re feeling and vice versa. Writing narratives

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    to it/ I could improve” (6-8). The poem has a playful tone… until the last two lines; “Wait ‘til they learn/ I’m dropping out” (11-12). This serious shift in tone reveals that the woman does not appreciate being given “Marks” on her performance as a wife and mother. Although she is receiving good grades; who are they to grade her? The last line alone provides a second reading of the poem with a wholly sharp but still playfully sarcastic tone as opposed to the initial lone playfulness. Since she

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    Tone of “The Measures Taken” We live in a world where there is always a rationalization for slaughtering‚ political elimination of anyone who stands in our way‚ and with whom we strongly disagree. After the Nazis killed Erich Fried’s father‚ he became aggressive and expressed his feeling through the poem “The Measures Taken.” He argues that the world will be beautiful and peaceful after the “slaughter” of the evil people (Kennedy and Gioia‚ 442). The world is full of suffering‚ and it is caused

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    Objective Tone

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    Topics for This Week’s Discussions: Objective Tone (graded) Flawed Diction (graded) Q&A Forum . . . for your questions and comments (not graded) Note: Click on the links in the “Topics” section to view the discussion topics. Then‚ click “Respond” to add your thoughts to the discussion thread. Topics Objective Tone (graded) Flawed Diction (graded) Q&A Forum Objective Tone (graded) Though an objective tone is probably most appropriate for nearly all academic

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    Dominant Tone

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    Barone Mr. Nelson English 110 18 September 2014 Dominant Tone Sensory Details Exercise IDEA #1 Where is the place you are thinking about describing? Football field at twilight Who‚ if any‚ are the people there? Football team‚ coaches‚ and myself What is the main feeling that you intend for the reader to feel as he or she reads your paper? Anticipation and nervousness of the upcoming game What point of view will you use?  (For example‚ will you refer to yourself and what you see as you stand

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    Tone Loc

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    Tone Loc Many of you today may not know of the artist I’m going to talk about today but may know of his work. He is pretty popular with certain types of people I’ll let you be the judge on that. Tone Loc didn’t always have the best child hood in fact a hood is just might what you call it. Tone loc was a very unique some would say typical person as you read more you’ll soon see just how different he is.

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    Ehrenreich Tones

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    Barbara Ehrenreich tones Using tone in writing is really important because it convey a message that the author want to express to the reader. The tone Barbara Ehrenreich uses in the book “Nickel and Dimed” is changing rapidly because she wants her reader to really see the realistic of what she has to face. She put herself into the life of a minimum wage circumstance to see if she can survive or not. She go to different location in the country but they all have the same point that the job she take

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    Ulysses Tone

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    How would you describe the speaker’s tone in "Ulysses"? In Ulysses‚ written by Alfred Lord Tennyson‚ is a poem giving courage and hope. In this poem‚ the desire of Tennyson to reach out further more than he can‚ and to get away from the same everyday life are expressed. The tone of the speaker in Ulysses is not soothing but forcing for the hope. This can be seen from the end of the poem‚ “Come‚ my friends‚/ ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world./Push off‚ and sitting wll in order smite” (lines

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    Ozymandias Tone

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    As humans‚ we often think about power‚ but never think about how lonely you will be with it. The poem Ozymandias‚ written by Percy Shelley‚ is a poem about political power. Shelly uses a mocking tone to describe the desire of achievement of morality while criticizing the arrogance of Ozymandias for wanting dominance and demand praise. The setting is complex in this poem; despite that‚ there is a two people point of view illustrated in the situation. The traveler describes an antique land while Ozymandias

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