Short answer practice for MCAS

Queen Elizabeth, in her speech to her navy motivates and inspires her soldiers. Within her speech, she uses her female identity to spur her soldiers on. She states that “I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and a king of England.” In spite of her appearance she seems to be more powerful then most people think of her to be. Over all she seems to be a powerful ruler of her age that most enemies feared, and citizens had much respect for her.

An Analysis of Diction in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God

by Ian Roderick

All authors use their own sort of diction. In the excerpt from Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God, the author shows diction which is both interesting and southern slang. McCarthy begins by describing a character who enjoys hunting: “I’ll say one thing, he could by god shoot it.” The author starts by stating that the child likes to shoot: “they run him off out at the fair one time.” McCarthy finishes by showing southern dialect: “he’d just shoot directly he seen the feathers fly.” As shown, Cormac McCarthy expresses his own type of diction from the excerpt Child of God.