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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works Cited

Mode of Writing!!

http://www.transcendentalists.com/self_reliance_analysis.htm

Exposition

Heather Brown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson#Legacy

Description

http://rmitchell06.tripod.com/id20.html

Emerson's Style

http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam315/waldoemerson.html

Persuasive

http://mrgunnar.net/english.cfm?subpage=348353

Emerson is more conceptual and philosophical

http://www.authorama.com/essays-second-series-10.html

Transcendentalist

syntax:

is quite simple. it was easy to understand.

Diction

Let's look at some Rhetorical Devices

uses common words for many to understand

Metaphor:Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Parallelism: "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."

PERSONIFICATION: "But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."

"the sun shall dry up, and the wind exhale"

Simile: they are like music heard out of a work-house

Allusion - All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret.

Rhetorical question: Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?

Is it so bad then to be misunderstood?

His Major Works!!

The Poet

Circles

Nature

Who is this Emerson?

Self Reliance

American Scholar

Poet

Gifts

Experience

The Over-Soul

bff with Napoleon's nephew

lecturer

essayist

founder of Transcendentalist movement

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