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Analyse the writers’ use of passive verb construction and repetition in the following examples (italics mine): a) We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 77 repetition "kind" - emphasis, not main focus, afterthought, irrelevant, it's worth less than the other words and therefore has to repeat it verb construction - present, past, present tense. b) They sailed and trailed and flew and raced and crawled and walked and were carried, ...

Grade 12 experience Question: How do you feel about leaving next year? I am very excited; yet scared at the same time. Both my excitement and fear come from the fact that I am starting a new, unfamiliar chapter in my life. It is scary as I am going out on my own for the first time in my life; I will have to become independent. I am moving to an unfamiliar city; surrounded by unfamiliar people; a very frightful situation. Yet, for some reason, I am excited for the exact same reasons. The fact th...

God of Carnage is a play written by Yasmina Reza in 2006. It is about two couples, who have never met before, coming together to settle a dispute between their sons. Who's Afraid of Virginie Wolf? which was translated by Edward Albee, is also about two couples meeting but for a different occasion. Strangers and strangeness are represented differently and to different extents in the two works. In God of Carnage the element of strangers is much more emphasised than the feeling of strangeness. This...

What do you think about Boghossian's arguments? How does it affect your ideas about next year? Feel free to see this as a broad assignment - write/explain/argue about whatever the article made you think about. I think that Boghossian makes a valid point in his resignation letter. He was an ethics professor but due to the high level of sensitivity and the facts that some topics are trigger warnings for less that 0.001% of the worlds population his ability to do his job was compromised. He wasn’t...

What are two interesting things in the God of Carnage? Michel's character development throughout the play. He changes from this peacemaker character to this raging racist lunatic/monster. He goes from: "That's what insurance is for. What we'd like is for the boys to make up so that this sort of thing never happens again." To: [insert quote] ...

page 88: syntax She is a woman who misses moisture, who has always loved low green hedges and ferns. - Michael Ondaatje, "The English Patient" 1. Both of the subordinate clauses in this sentence modify "woman". What effect does this parallel structure have on sentence? Makes the woman the focal point of the sentence, 6the centre of all ideas introduced. 2. How would it change the feeling evoked by the sentence if it read: "She misses moisture and has always loved low green...

Something that interested me this summer was a particular anime called Naruto. Naruto is an anime showing the story of the main character (Naruto) and how he reaches his goals. There are two parts to the entire show, part 1: Naruto, and part 2: Naruto Shippuden. In total there are 720 episodes and it is honestly has been the best anime I have ever seen. The main character Naruto was born on the same day his parents died and has a demon spirit sealed away inside of him (this doesn't make a lo...