English
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g the impact of Word Choice on Tone
What is the overall tone of this passage?
ning from Sardis, on our former
Which words help to establish the tone?
How do the words create the tone?
es fell, and there they perched,
ding from our soldiers' hands;
here consorted us.
they fled away and gone,
is do ravens, crows, and kites
and downward look on us,
prey. Their shadows seem
al, under which
ly to give up the ghost.
-- The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,
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henry david thoreau and ralph warren emerson earned the name transcendentalists.you could assume that transcendentalists come from a well educated background from people that were alive before the american civil war.these people, mostly new englanders, mostly around boston, were attempting to create a uniquely american body of literature. it was already decades since the americans had won independence from england. and so they deliberately went about creating literature, essays, novels, philosophy, poetry, and other writing that were clearly different from anything from england, france, germany, or any other european nation.another way to look at the transcendentalists is to see them as a generation of people struggling to define spirituality and religion in a way that took into account the new understandings their age made available.