Marta K. Taylor Desert Dance

1. What impression or mood is Taylor trying to capture in this essay? How does the precise detail of the description help to convey that mood?

2. Taylor begins her description inside the car (paragraphs 1-5) and then moves out onto the landscape (5-7), bringing us back into the car in her final thought. Why does she use such a sequence? Why do you think she devotes roughly equal space to each area?

3. Taylor's description is mainly subjective, invested with her emotions. Point to elements of the description that reveal emotion.

4. Taylor's description relies in part on narration. How does the narration strengthen the essay's dominant impression?

Which excerpt from act 3 scene 2 of julius caesar is the best example of brutus’s use of pathos?

If you were doing a report on the savannah’s of africa, which of the following websites would be your best resource

It warportant fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the bolded sentences in the excerpts from "in another country" by ernest hemingway? a. it establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have physically left the warfront, the war continues to haunt them psychologically it shows the gradual loss of hope and growing depression of the wounded soldiers and their need for distractions b. c. it establishes the wounded soldiers' determination to shun war and disobey military commands to return to the front after they recover. d. it shows the wounded soldiers' sadness and disappointment at the lack of gratitude from the people they risked their lives to protect e it shows the wounded soldiers' belief that the war would never end, even as thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded and sent to hospitals.