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Determined | |||||||||||
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"Look at my face, what exactly do you see? DETERMINATION! This is a picture of my preliminary days when tones were evil little maggots. However, to get through my pain, I was what I'd like to say "motivated and determined" to achieve for the better. So here's the answer clean and cut, I learn the synonyms to the tone words by determination and simply do not memorize the dictionary words, just simply "understand" by knowing how it's like. To be a ninja, you have to act with intuition! Know your enemies and know yourself!" |
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Passage: "I spoke automatically with such fervor that I did not realize that the men were still talking and laughing until my dry mouth, filling up with blood from the cut, almost strangled me. I coughed, wanting to stop and go to one of the tall brass, sand-filled spittoons to relieve myself, but a few of the men, especially the superintendent, were listening and I was afraid. So I gulped it down, blood, saliva and all, and continued. (What powers of endurance I had during those days! What enthusiasm! What a belief in the rightness of things!) I spoke even louder in spite of the pain. But still they talked and still they laughed, as though deaf with cotton in dirty ears. So I spoke with greater emotional emphasis. I closed my ears and swallowed blood until I was nauseated. The speech seemed a hundred times as long as before, but I could not leave out a single word. All had to be said, each memorized nuance considered, rendered. Nor was that all. Whenever I uttered a word of three or more syllables a group of voices would yell for me to repeat it." - The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison |
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Explanation: As Ralph Ellison writes, he elicits a tone of determination through uses of particularly participles: "talking, laughing, filling, coughed, wanting, gulped, continued, louder." For the main character it seems as if he doesn't notice that people may have been mocking and ignoring his speech while he is verbally saying it. The character obviously doesn't realizes it and personally perseveres through pain, through the lost of blood: "I closed my ears and swallowed the blood until I was nauseated. The speech seemed a hundred times as long as before, but I could not leave out a single word." Notice, that although he perceives some type of pain, he'll still endure it as much as he can in order to achieve his desire to speak out his notable speech. Also, since he seems to think that his speech feels important, he marks himself through determination. Although writing it in particularly long sentences, each sentence contains at least an apostrophe separating two simple sentences into a complex compound sentence, therefore giving the impression of the desire to say all that Ralph Ellison wants to say as soon as possible without putting much emphasis onto other words. The emphasis therefore, had been divided in such a way that it had been evenly spaced such that it explicates a tone that simply says, "determination to seek out their desires." |