“Give me liberty or give me death!” Is one phrase that proves Patrick Henry is better at proving his point than Thomas Paine. They both wished to convince the people to fight for liberty against the British. Henry proves his point better than Paine by using emotional appeal and strong diction, while Paine simply uses appeal to logic and minor diction to achieve his goal. Patrick is also a powerful speaker who can sate his ideas clearly. Paine can state his ideas well, but he lacks power in his speaking
Additionally, Sontag pleads with the reader to cause him or her to think about the difficulties of being a woman in this civilization. Sontag’s essay contains many long and eloquent sentences, but the short, simple ones stand out and are the cornerstones of her argument. Sontag often places multiple verbose sentences together, designed to lull the reader to sleep,
Carrie by Stephen King, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and “Wicked” by Winnie Holzman are all works that focus on constructing identities. Through this essay I will explain how the major characters in each work become who they are. Whether it be from the background they came from, experiences they've encountered, or the way they were taught to act. The authors did a great job explaining how people have these ideas and images of “what they should be,” and how they form an identity from those experiences