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The Importance of Soccer to Me Essay Essay (8.3) 515 Words | 2 Pages

Almost every person has an object or something that they love and will cherish it for the rest of their lives. For me it is a soccer ball. It is an object that I will keep for the rest of my life. My soccer ball is important to me because I love ever thing about the sport and it inspires me to be a professional soccer player some day. My soccer ball can be described using five different senses. It is as round as a basketball but it is smaller in seize than a basketball. It sounds like a drum...

poems Essay (8.2) 1702 Words | 2 Pages

metaphor implicit figurative comparison mood how the audience feels consonance repetition of consonant sounds rhyme scheme the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse free verse unrhymed unmetered poetry assonance repetition of vowel sounds alliteration repetition of the initial sounds rhyme correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words especially when these are used at the ends of poetry personification giving human qualities to a non-human meter pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables slant rhyme imperfect rhyme, near rhyme due to assonance, consonance, or both enjambment smooth transition, without pause,...

My Greatest Achievement Essay Essay (8) 485 Words | 2 Pages

My greatest achievement that I feel proud of happened ten years ago. When I was fifteen year old, I gracefully pitched a no hitter in a Little League baseball game. This is my greatest sports achievement because it was the last significant time I actually was a pitcher. After that, while growing up, I was usually placed in the outfield because of my speed and knowledge. During the game, I quickly pitched five perfect innings and striking out thirteen scrawny batters. While on the mound, I never kept track of how I was doing because I did not want to...

Collections 3 HURRICANE KATRINA POEMS Essay (7.9) 536 Words | 1 Pages

the speaker in the poem "After the Hurricane" a teenage girl named Fredericka What is "After the Hurricane" about? trying to get food and water after Hurricane Katrina What is the tone (overall feeling) of "After the Hurricane"? angry and disappointed and tired What is the job of the watcher in the poem "Watcher"? He is watching for looters, debris, and dead (or alive) bodies. What is an idea that is found in both poems? Doing something helpful after a hurricane is difficult. What does the speaker in "After the Hurricane" compare the scene to in the beginning of the...

The play is entitled 'Twelfth Night' or 'What You Will' and was actually performed to the Queen on Twelfth Night Essay Essay (7.8) 3939 Words | 15 Pages

The play is entitled 'Twelfth Night' or 'What You Will' and was actually performed to the Queen on Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night is the twelfth and last night of Christmas, traditionally a time of holiday and festival eg. 'Feast of Fools. ' In the time of Shakespeare a 'Lord of Misrule' was chosen usually a servant who became , for a short period, master of the household, in charge of an up-side down world were everything is not as it seemed, like the play. Shakespeare elects to specify 'Ilyria' as the setting of the play. Ilyria was know to Shakespeare...

Nature and Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson), Walden and Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau), Poems by Emily Dickinson and Poems by Walt Whitman Essay (7.5) 586 Words | 2 Pages

Emerson mostly known for his essays, not poems abolitionist minister What view of nature does Emerson take? Nature can inspire the human spirit Central idea of "Self-Reliance"? rely on your own instincts Why does emerson allude to individuals such as Socrates, Jesus, and Galileo in "Self-Reliance"? to inspire readers through the example of their struggles because "to be great is to be misunderstood" What is Thoreau's philosophical idea in Walden? individualism What does Thoreau hope to convey with the description of the path his feet had worn to the pond within a week? (Walden) Human beings fall to readily into...

poems Essay (7.4) 2490 Words | 6 Pages

In Psalm of Life who's the conversation between? the psalmist and a young man what are mournful numbers in the psalm of life? lyric verses what's the main theme of the psalm of life? live in the present not in the future or the past what do those in pain want in the psalm of life? they are looking for inspiration from others what is life compared to in the psalm of life? it's compared to a battle what does the speaker refuse to believe in in the psalm of life? In this poem the speaker refuses the idea that...

Choose two poems from your selection of First World War Poetry Essay Essay (7.4) 2602 Words | 10 Pages

I have chosen the two poems "The Send-Off" by Wilfred Owen and "Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen, because I found these two poems very moving, and I could associate with them, from what I already know about the First World War. "The Send-Off" and "Dulce et decorum est" are both written by the same poet, and they both look at different aspects of the First World War. "The Send-Off" is about the young battalions of soldiers being sent away to their death. The title is very ominous and threatening, it makes you feel worried that you might be...

Discuss the dramatic significance of scene of act 2 scene 5 of Twelfth Night Essay Essay (7.3) 1119 Words | 5 Pages

Act ii scene v of "Twelfth Night" is the scene in which Maria, Toby, Andrew and Fabian drop the letter that Malvolio thinks is from Olivia to him and therefore he will be humiliated in front of her. Shakespeare makes this scene dramatic in various ways. Prior to Act ii scene v the audience already dislike Malvolio. Malvolio feels able to speak down to Sir Toby who is socially superior because he is full of his own self-importance: "My masters are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at...

WHITMAN AND DICKINSON POEMS Essay (7.2) 896 Words | 3 Pages

Walt Whitman biography -Whitman put the living, breathing, sexual body at the center of most of his poetry. -Whitman dropped out of school when he was 11, he wrote in a newspaper -his writing was inspired by emotion of opera. -he became the national poet of America -he introduced the use of catalogs and listings; he put paper reviews of himself because he wanted to get attention -not all of his poems are about love; for example the wound-dresser What is the theme and tone of "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman? Theme: Science distorts the beauty...