Adjective

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have the nouns, adjectives, and verbs one after the other. They are even more clustered together because the writer chooses to get rid of punctuation in some instances. Page 29 reads, I ask the cashier to wait while I run to the dairy aisle, I am craving cottage cheese now, I get the biggest tub there is, large curd, I laugh to myself, I laugh and laugh, big girls gotta eat.” It is apparent to me what Hunter is trying to do with this run-on. This time she is using similar adjectives so we feel…

I will be looking at whether there are any common features within the language used. For example I will be looking at whether the female characters within the books typically use language features such as phatic language, intensifiers and empty adjectives. In order to explore this investigation topic further I will create a comparison with how language is used to represent male characters in order to reach a conclusion as to how book publishers and as a result society depicts gender. Not only…

word Apollonian is an adjective that refers to the God Apollo of the Greek or Roman mythology. Apollo is the messenger Gods; the God of light, spring or youth, medicine and the art of music and also sometimes identified with the sun. He is a son of Zeus and one of the twelve main Gods. The adjective Apollonian was first used by the German philosopher F. W. J. Schelling and later by another German philosopher, F. Nietzsche, who explains it further in combination with the adjective Dionysian in…

This is another category that I can stick with the results because I identify myself with the three textbook adjectives. I continue to be soft-hearted since I show sympathy and compassion for those around me. One adjective my friends and family would use to describe me is trusting. People who know me usually vent or share sensitive thoughts or even whimsical memories with me. Throughout my entire life I can say I…

character and her relationship with her community in five adjectives. While probably overlooked by the casual reader, Petry explores how closer examination reveals Faulkner's organization and manipulation of language. Placed near the end of the fourth section just before the announcement of Emily's death, the adjectives are both a chronological summation of the previous four chapters and foreshadowing of surprise uncovered in the fifth. The first adjective is double-edged and pertains to opening…

Hayden centers the theme of the poem around his father, reminiscing about the hard labor his father endured, even on “blueblack cold” days, as he states in the second line of the poem. He expresses love and gratitude, which is also the theme, towards his father as he describes what, every Sunday, his father did. In the line, “… with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday labor made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him,” Hayden explains how, at the moment of action, his father…

drove to political beliefs, musical choices and my partner’s GPA in high school. The second activity was the Perception Triad. Essentially, I had to go through the list of adjectives and select five that describe me the most and do the same for the other members of the group. Finally we had to explain why we choose those adjectives to describe our perceptions of each other. II. Emotional Response I predicted that I would get less rights than wrong for the first activity. I knew my partner…

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Vocabulary Benevolence - Noun. Desire to to do good to others; kindness Placidly - Adjective. Pleasantly calm; peaceful Cantankerous - Adjective. Disagreeable to deal with Vapid - Adjective. Offering nothing that is challenging or stimulating Obstreperous - Adjective. Noisy and difficult to control Vehement - Adjective. Intensely emotional Cordiality - Noun. Sincere kindness or affection; manners Volition - Noun. The power of choosing; determination Temerity - Noun. A reckless act Repertoire -…