Read this excerpt about the Vietnam War from "Ambush" by Tim O'Brien:
When she was nine, my daughter Kathleen asked if I had ever killed anyone. She
knew about the war, she knew I'd been a soldier. "You keep writing war stories," she
said, "so I guess you must've killed somebody." It was a difficult moment, but I did
what seemed right, which was to say, "Of course not," and then to take her onto my
lap and hold her for a while. Someday, I hope, she'll ask again. But here I want to
pretend she's a grown-up. I want to tell her exactly what happened, or what I
remember happening, and then I want to say to her that as a little girl she was
absolutely right. This is why I keep writing war stories:
He was a short, slender young man of about twenty. I was afraid of him-afraid of
something and as he passed me on the trail I threw a grenade that exploded at his
feet and killed him
Even now I haven't finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times
don't. In the ordinary hours of life I try not to dwell on it, but now and then, when I'm
reading a newspaper or just sitting alone in a room, I'll look up and see the young
man coming out of the morning fog. I'll watch him walk toward me, his shoulders
slightly stooped, his head cocked to the side, and he'll pass within a few yards of
me and suddenly smile at some secret thought and then continue up the trail to
where it bends back into the fog.
How does the author's specific word choice and stylistic devices affect the
excerpt's tone? Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.
*BRAINLEST TO WHOEVER ANSWERS*

dickinson punctuation and lines in her poems to establish a rhythm. each reader will naturally find themselves reading the poem in the same way. she uses the repeating question marks and exclamation points to convey the passion in her words. shelley uses punctuation to paint a picture in the reader's mind. for example, the ellipses after "stand in the dessert" evoke a silence, as it would feel in a deserted, old place.

the play romeo and juliet was one of the most famous love tragedies ever written. this love story unfortunately had a fatal ending. many people argue over why the lovers had died, was it over free will or fate?  

the death of romeo and juliet was partially because of free will. the fact that romeo and juliet got married knowing that there was a bitter feud between their families, the montague and capulet’s. this feud brought on many problems, such as the murder of tybalt by romeo. juliet knew that this might be a problem for her and romeo. juliet had said: “what’s in a name”? which explains her ill fate of being a capulet and romeo being a montague. when romeo tells his servant “ ay, mine own…show more content…

i believe they had died over the love they had for each other, strong enough that their lives could end so suddenly if something horrible had come between them, and that was exactly how it happened. this tragedy occurred within five days of the two meeting, they experienced love at first sight, got married and quickly were dead. free will became a part of this when juliet decided to take friar laurence’s advise in inhaling a potion that will make people assume she is died but will awake in 42 hours prier to when she took it. when romeo had heard the news that juliet was dead, he assumed it was true, and responded with the line; “well juliet, i will lay with thee tonight”. to me this line indicated how he feels for juliet by dying in her will. the fact that free will didn’t take control of the story; it left fate to be the murder of the lovers. fate first kicked in when their eyes met at the capulet party. when romeo and juliet spoke, their words had powerful contentment; they had such a strong feeling for one another that they could lay in each other’s arms forever. their happiness didn’t last long; there were many reasons for this, for example; the marriage lord capulet arranged between paris and juliet. i believe that the plot of the play thus far leads the audience to believe that the deaths were a result of fate. the last act will determine once and for all if it is fate or free will. romeo again challenges fate.

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