- Why was this passage chosen? ... Emotional atmosphere of the whole passage. ... - Imagery: Does passage develop due to it? ... Poetry To analyze poetry: - Title - Paraphrase: to put something in your own words after the first read through - Connotation: the actual/true meaning, examining literary devices - Attitude: author's perspective (tone/diction/imagery) - Shift: key words, punctuation, stanza division, length, change in sound - Title Revisited: 2nd impression/proper understanding - Theme: love, betrayal, lost love (the poet's perspective/ideas) Commentary Organiz...

• Word Count: 757
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The negativity keys on these words give off a sense of fear in his speech, as if he is afraid of what is to come. ... The vivid diction connects to the tone of the passage, which helps to deepen the personal voice in the poem. ... His personal voice is loud and clear through his use of tone throughout the passage. ... Rhetorical devices are used in this passage to show a persuasive view on what the author's voice intends to be. Shahriari uses rhetorical devices to show his fearful and nervous voice in the passage. ...

• Word Count: 1494
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The settings have a pivotal role in helping the reader understand identifications of the narrator, and helps show the passage of time. ... The passage of time, or so it seems to the narrator, occurs between the settings, and are due to the settings such as the airplane ride, the bus ride and the canoe trip into the jungle. ... The setting is a key tool that Carpentier uses in this novel and is central to everything that occurs in it....

• Word Count: 1028
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Her religious values played a key role in all of her writings. ... She referred to this from a passage in the scriptures: Job 1:15, And I am only escaped alone to tell the News... In Rowlandson the scriptures play a key role and religion still plays a very important role in today's society. ...

• Word Count: 1038
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Within the first few lines of the passage, right away we see that the wife is accepting of her husband's ways and is used to taking any type of reaction he gives her. ... Through the narrator's hidden thoughts from her husband and her constant desire to write about her feelings instead of sharing them with him, the reader is left with the image that they are lacking a key component of marriage; being able to understand one another. ...

• Word Count: 1134
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School