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First, you need to decide the purpose of your speech and know the intended audience. If the speech is meant to be a fictional dramatic monologue, you’ll need a clear idea of who your characters are. Try brainstorming ideas for the characters’ backstories. The Gotham Writers link provided below has sets of questions to help flesh out your characters. Next, every story needs a conflict to capture your audience’s interest. Why does the father feel... First, you need to decide the purpose of your speech and know the intended audience. If the speech is meant to be a fictional dramatic monologue, you’ll need a clear idea of who your characters are. Try brainstorming ideas for the characters’ backstories. The Gotham Writers link provided below has sets of questions to help flesh out your characters. Next, every story needs a conflict to capture your audience’s interest. Why does the father feel sympathy for his son? Has the son made a mistake? Does the father have his own regrets? Remember, c...

The consistent nature of Mary's dialogue helps the reader to compare and contrast her, before and after the crime. In doing so, the reader can also make conjectures about Mary's state of mind, her true character, and the internal factors that motivate her to be how she is.  The way that she is able to control the atmosphere of the house, and the manner in which she maintains consistency in the midst of chaos, helps... The consistent nature of Mary's dialogue helps the reader to compare and contrast her, before and after the crime. In doing so, the reader can also make conjectures about Mary's state of mind, her true character, and the internal factors that motivate her to be how she is.  The way that she is able to control the atmosphere of the house, and the manner in which she maintains consistency in the midst of chaos, helps the reader see right through Mary's manipulative nature. Sweet and subservient as she may be, she still holds the strings tightly throughou...

From the first paragraph, the reader already notices that the main character does not follow what would be considered common sense.  For instance, in the first line, after London establishes the setting of the story as the Yukon, he notes that the man "turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward..."  The man already turns away from conventional wisdom, which would tell him... From the first paragraph, the reader already notices that the main character does not follow what would be considered common sense.  For instance, in the first line, after London establishes the setting of the story as the Yukon, he notes that the man "turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward..."  The man already turns away from conventional wisdom, which would tell him to stay on a more known path in case of emergency, and instead, c...

A simile is a comparison that uses the words "like" or "as." There are many comparisons within The Boy in the Striped Pajamas , and most of them are found in the narration of the book (as opposed to the dialogue) because a young boy like Bruno would be less likely to use such a literary concept. One example of a simile can be found on page 211: There was some sort of disturbance towards... A simile is a comparison that uses the words "like" or "as." There are many comparisons within The Boy in the Striped Pajamas , and most of them are found in the narration of the book (as opposed to the dialogue) because a young boy like Bruno would be less likely to use such a literary concept. One example of a simile can be found on page 211: There was some sort of disturbance towards the back, where some people seemed unwilling to march, but Bruno was too small to see what happened and all he heard was loud noises, like the sound of gunshots, but he couldn...

There are three types of mechanical waves. They are longitudinal waves, transverse waves, and surface waves. I will discuss the properties of each type of wave. Longitudinal waves are waves in which the particles move in a direction parallel to the direction the wave moves. An example is a slinky stretched out horizontally on the ground. You send a pulse without lifting the slinky. As energy is being displaced from left to right, the individual... There are three types of mechanical waves. They are longitudinal waves, transverse waves, and surface waves. I will discuss the properties of each type of wave. Longitudinal waves are waves in which the particles move in a direction parallel to the direction the wave moves. An example is a slinky stretched out horizontally on the ground. You send a pulse without lifting the slinky. As energy is being displaced from left to right, the individual coils will be displaced left to right. Sound waves are another example of a longitudinal wave. Tran...

The previous answer discusses one interpretation of the question: did violence address the root causes of the Civil War? But the question could be read another way: was violence the primary reason that the North emerged victorious? The short answer is: not entirely. For starters, the population of the North outnumbered that of the South by a factor of three to one. Robert Krick, a historian and author, cites this as the primary determinant of the war's outcome: more people meant more soldiers, more productivity, more industry, and more money to finance the North's war efforts.  Related to this was the Confederacy's inability to gain international recognition. Without finances and support from foreign governments, particularly the Europeans, the South was denied access to a variety of resources that could have sustained them against the North's superior numbers. Finally, the South became politically fractured as the war went on. Noah Andre Trudeau, an author of several C...

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar , there are two forms of speech used throughout the play: verse and prose.  Further, the verse employed is blank verse, which is poetry composed of unrhymed lines all written in the same meter, usually iambic pentameter.  In iambic pentameter, a regular line of the meter contains ten syllables with the heavier stresses placed on every other syllable.  An iamb is a metrical foot made up of one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable, and pentameter refers to the number of iambs within a line.  Therefore, iambic pentameter contains five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables.  An example taken from Julius Caesar is below: Cassius: Bru tus , / I do / ob serve / you now / of late I have / not from / your eyes /that gen / tle ness And show / of love / as I / was wont / to have . (I. ii. 34-36). In the above example, the five iambs are separated by slashes and the stressed syllables are in bold.  Shakespeare often uses iambic pen...