Adjective

mocking vulture eye while he sleeps? In this story it describes every step that the main character did to survive this dreaded feeling inside. In the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe the author uses good word choice and descriptive adjectives to develop the mood and the characters feelings in the story. Edgar Allen Poe used a lot of word choice in this story to develop the mood and the way the characters act. First, when he uses the word conceived when he looks at the vulture eye…

given male may believe that he is athletic, tough, and hardworking, where as the male’s girlfriend would use adjectives like caring, loving and thoughtful to describe the same individual. A quote by….says, “One assumption is that individuals can be depicted accurately as either individualistic or collectivistic” An environment influences an individual’s identity by affecting adjectives used to describe oneself. The environment causes social pressures that cause individuals to become aware of…

The English language is an instrument when used purposeful and simplified, they will guard against politically pretentious adjectives. George Orwell states the argument directly “…if you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy.” Again in “Now it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes.” Orwell’s essay argument express concern for lack of meaning and imagery. The example of the alcoholic who continues the bad…

cruel, tender, rowdy”. The repetitive use of the noun “April” is used to juxtapose the adjective “golden” which represents autumn and the verb “cloudy” which could connote rain and gloominess.The listing of the woman’s characteristics could suggest how women constantly change how they feel due to their ‘sensitive’ nature, which creates a change in pace. The fleeting nature is shown through the oxymoron of the adjectives, “gracious” and…

with both last segments reflecting social joining. The observers rated ten individual’s elephants with 28 adjectives like whether the elephants were playful, protective. The score was independently and use a 7 point Likert scale from least applicable to most common. The descriptive adjective was calculated by using Kendall’s coefficient of concordance W, to compare the raters. The within adjectives was calculated by the “intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)” and to get the mean score PCA was…

Different people differently perceive sexuality and identities. “Lifestylers treat “gayness as a noun,” commuters treat their identity as a verb, and integrators treat it as an adjective” (50). When you look up the word “gay” in the dictionary it comes up saying it is an adjective. I believe this word should be treated like an adjective supposed to a noun which is a person, place, or thing. I can see how people may think it can be a noun but I believe that it’s a puzzle piece that describes a…

Through unfitting diction, setting seems inappropriately compared in The Dumka by B.H. Fairfield . Generally, the disproportionate contradiction the moods is due to word choice is evident in the poem. When Fairfield writes, “quite still, backs rigid, hands in their laps, and look straight ahead at the yellow light” (Lines 5-7), the description of the couple differs radically with the light. To clarify, yellow light contains a warmer connotation, but the diction used to depict the people…

stick to the basic facts in the reference to the type of document, you can begin to see your own speaking patterns and how you approach your topic at hand. It has been challenging to learn how to be less descriptive and to stick to the fact with few adjectives and zero personal biases as possible. I spend a good bit of time on my personal writing, the bulk of which is creative and self-expressive. I am able to vent my emotions and experiences through characters and situations that are similar to…

“A literary work can succeed in making us forget it as such, but it leaves its seed in us.” This is from Why Read the Classics, and it is just one way that shows how classic authors’ unique style help their stories remain timeless. Classic literature is literature that is widely acknowledged as having outstanding or enduring qualities. The styles of O Henry, Mark Twain, and John Steinbeck helped them withstand the test of time and create classic literature because O.Henry has a very unique…

Symbolism: In the book, “The fellowship of the ring,” we can find various of objects that are symbolic to the story. The ring of power: Ring of power shows pure, uncontrollable power and its responsibilities and dangers. The ring of sauron has an innumerable amount of power within the owner. Consequently, it gives the wearer a lot of responsibilities that usually makes him/her corrupt in power. However, for the Three elven rings, it serves as a different purpose. Instead of making the wearer…