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     When it comes to William Least Heat-Moon’s Roads to Quoz, An American Mosey . The author chose to format the writing to be a descriptive piece that is best classified as a travel novel. The piece was written as a first-person narrative and has most of the contextual emphasis on the differences in setting and area, portrayed through the descriptions written.      This is initially embedded in the first sentence in the description of their whereabouts saying “We went into Little Lanesboro to Joe’s Country Store.” This being the head of the piece/paragraph immediately brings importance to it, this is essential in a travel novel and rightfully put at the forefront of the writing.      This importance and analysis of the first sentence continue when it comes to the linguistic development of Heat-Moon’s writing. The use of the words “We” and “went” reveals the first-person nature of the text and the past tense showing that the events have alre...

  In the broadest view of the text, this is a paragraphically structured story with a short sentence at the end of the piece. Upon reading the first paragraph it’s contextually developed that the character talking in the first person is weighing the options of shooting an elephant. This can be depicted linguistically from the heavy modality, like when the author wrote “... I ought to do. I ought to walk up within…” Using the word “ought” is showing a suggestion. When looking at this first paragraph deeper than its contextual meaning, the word “sinking” pops out. The author wrote, “I was a poor shot with a rifle and the ground was soft mud into which one would sink at every step.” Although this does develop the text, it has a second bigger meaning. In each step he takes he gets closer to the elephant where he has to make a decision whether or not to shoot, so for every step he takes sinking deeper into the mud, he is also sinking deeper into committing to a decision.  Furtherin...

  Question 1 A       The Jamaican runner Usain Bolt just ran the 100 meters final and won. The lanes accompanying Bolt were filled with all-star runners like Richard Thompson and teammate Asafa Powell who was the former world record holder of the 100-meter dash.      To recount the run it started off with runner Richard Thompson having an inhuman start bursting off the block taking the initial lead. This seemingly threw Bolt for a loop having a bad fourth step, but with a quick recovery, it was still anyone’s race… That was until Bolt’s momentum started building with his longer strides. He quickly took the lead from Thompson gaining a clear vision of the line.      And in entertaining fashion with the whole group still bunched in the back, Bolt pulled ahead taking a look over his shoulder and it dawns on him; that he would win this race. Bolt still close to ten meters from the line threw his hands up in the air and pounding on his c...