Question

English help please

Answer 1

Directions: Fill in the chart using complete sentences.

Choose a descriptive quotation from each paragraph that represents Muir’s writing style.
Describe his use of diction and connotation in each of your selected quotations. Include at least two specific examples of connotative words for each quotation, identifying the connotation of each example and describing the tone the examples create.
Explain the effect that the author’s diction has on the reader.

Graphic Organizer
Descriptive Quotation Use of Diction & Connotation Effect on the Reader
Paragraph 1

“I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple”

Muir’s writing is formal and academic, describing the intention of his excursion (botanizing). He uses the word lonely which usually has a negative connotation, but being alone helps him focus and enjoy his work. He also describes “glorious freedom” which has a positive connotation. The word innumerable creates a tone of awe for boundless species of trees and plants.

In this paragraph Muir lets the reader know the purpose of his excursion, shows he feels free in nature, and expresses a sense of wonder in nature. The reader is invited to come on the journey with him.

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Answer 2

@Elsa213

Answer 3

I'd help but I haven't even started this project yet. Sorry Bre :/

Answer 4

tis ok sadie

Answer 5

After earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law's farm near Portage [Wisconsin], I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock, rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty, climbing the trees, revelling in their flowers and fruit like bees in beds of goldenrods, glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm of the bog and meadow heathworts, grasses, carices, ferns, mosses, liverworts displayed in boundless profusion.

The rarest and most beautiful of the flowering plants I discovered on this first grand excursion was Calypso borealis (the Hider of the North). I had been fording streams more and more difficult to cross and wading bogs and swamps that seemed more and more extensive and more difficult to force one's way through. Entering one of these great tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps one morning, holding a general though very crooked course by compass, struggling through tangled drooping branches and over and under broad heaps of fallen trees, I began to fear that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore would have to pass the night in the swamp and began, faint and hungry, to plan a nest of branches on one of the largest trees or windfalls like a monkey's nest, or eagle's, or Indian's in the flooded forests of the Orinoco described by Humboldt.

But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung. The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower. No other bloom was near it, for the bog a short distance below the surface was still frozen, and the water was ice cold. It seemed the most spiritual of all the flower people I had ever met. I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy.

It seems wonderful that so frail and lovely a plant has such power over human hearts. This Calypso meeting happened some forty-five years ago, and it was more memorable and impressive than any of my meetings with human beings excepting, perhaps, Emerson and one or two others. When I was leaving the University, Professor J.D. Butler said, "John, I would like to know what becomes o you, and I wish you would write me, say once a year, so I may keep you in sight." I wrote to the Professor, telling him about this meeting with Calypso, and he sent the letter to an Eastern newspaper [The Boston Recorder] with some comments of his own. These, as far as I know, were the first of my words that appeared in print.

How long I sat beside Calypso I don't know. Hunger and weariness vanished, and only after the sun was low in the west I splashed on through the swamp, strong and exhilarated as if never more to feel any mortal care. At length I saw maple woods on a hill and found a log house. I was gladly received. "Where ha ye come fra? The swamp, that awfu' swamp. What were ye doin' there?" etc. "Mony a puir body has been lost in that muckle, cauld, dreary bog and never been found." When I told her I had entered it in search of plants and had been in it all day, she wondered how plants could draw me to these awful places, and said, "It's god's mercy ye ever got out."

Oftentimes I had to sleep without blankets, and sometimes without supper, but usually I had no great difficulty in finding a loaf of bread here and there at the houses of the farmer settlers in the widely scattered clearings. With one of these large backwoods loaves I was able to wander many a long wild fertile mile in the forests and bogs, free as the winds, gathering plants, and glorying in God's abounding inexhaustible spiritual beauty bread. Storms, thunderclouds, winds in the woods—were welcomed as friends.

Answer 6

@Elsa213

Answer 7

elsa are you home so u could help ?

Answer 8

Yesh. e.e
What's the assignment?

Answer 9

06.03B Muir Graphic Organizer B

Answer 10

just like the one u did but alittle different u look at each paragraph and u fill in the boxes

Answer 11

Welp.
Icannotfindit. .-.
I'll try helping you without the assignment then. >.<

Answer 12

oki

Answer 13

ill put it in a doc so u see it better

Answer 14

Oooo, thank you. c:

Answer 15

Okay.
What do you understand from the second paragraph?

Answer 16

for the descriptive quote we can put


"I began to fear that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore would have to pass the night in the swamp and began, faint and hungry, to plan a nest of branches on one of the largest trees or windfalls like a monkey's nest, or eagle's, or Indian's in the flooded forests of the Orinoco" Bc he is telling us that he is growing weak and that he might not make it but he keeps pushing till the last second

Answer 17

Use of Diction & Connotation

 Muir's writing describes how he is growing weak and might not make it alive, but he continues to put effort as his faith fades. When he mentions words like “fear” and “faint”, it creates a negative connotation.

Answer 18

so what i said was correct to put in

Answer 19

Yerp. :p

Answer 20

Effect on the Reader

This could effect the reader by making them sad or depressed because he might not make his journey but it also keeps the reader reading because they want to know if he survives or not.

Answer 21

Goodiee @.@

Answer 22

ok now Paragraph 3

Answer 23

Descriptive Quotation

`It seemed the most spiritual of all the flower people I had ever met. I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy.`

Answer 24

Use of Diction & Connotation
Muirs writing describes how happy he is. And how he cried tears of joy because of it

Answer 25

Muir's writing describes how happy he is to find a beautiful flower in such horrid place and how he cries tears of joy because of it.

Answer 26

I would eat the flower if I were hungry. e.e

Answer 27

x'D

Answer 28

Effects the reader

This effects the reader because it shows them that even tho your in a area thats looks horrid theres still beauty that lies with in it you just have to look hard enough for it

Answer 29

^ is this correct

Answer 30

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Effects the reader

This effects the reader because it shows them that even tho your in a area thats looks horrid theres still beauty that lies with in it you just have to look hard enough for it
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This effects the reader because it shows them that even though you're in an area that seems horrid, there's still beauty that lies within it. You just need to put effort to find it.

Answer 31

ok next #4

Answer 32

Quote

"It seems wonderful that so frail and lovely a plant has such power over human hearts. This Calypso meeting happened some forty-five years ago, and it was more memorable and impressive than any of my meetings with human beings excepting, perhaps, Emerson and one or two others."

Answer 33

Muir's writing contains words like "lovely", "memorable" and "impressive". This creates a positive connotation. Muir is explaining the power that flower had against his heart and how memorable that moment was.

Answer 34

This effects the reader by sending positive vibes through the paragraph. And it shows the reader that no matter what the object is it always has an powerful effect on people

Answer 35

I just realized.... it's `affects` not `effects`. e.e

Answer 36

from the web site my teacher gave me it says "Effect on the Reader"

Answer 37

Are we doing suntin wrong here? e.e

Answer 38

i think she misspell bc Microsoft says its affect

Answer 39

so for the affect is what i put correct

Answer 40

Okie okie e.e
Pffftt
Yewr teacher's grammar sux.

Answer 41

x'D

Answer 42

so its correct and we can move to the 5th paragraph?

Answer 43

Yerp. ^.^

Answer 44

We're almost complete. @.@

Answer 45

yesh ○.○

Answer 46

"At length I saw maple woods on a hill and found a log house. I was gladly received. "Where ha ye come fra? The swamp, that awfu' swamp. What were ye doin' there?" etc. "Mony a puir body has been lost in that muckle, cauld, dreary bog and never been found." When I told her I had entered it in search of plants and had been in it all day, she wondered how plants could draw me to these awful places, and said, "It's god's mercy ye ever got out."

Answer 47

@Elsa213 ^ this correct

Answer 48

For the quotation, yes.

Answer 49

ummmmm i dont know what to do about the Use of Diction & Connotation

Answer 50

Lemme see. e.e

This paragraph mentions words like `awfu'` and `muckle` which marks as a negative connotation.

Answer 51

This affects the reader because its telling the reader the negative aspects of his journey

Answer 52

it's*
journey.*

Answer 53

Last paragraph *0*

Answer 54

With one of these large backwoods loaves I was able to wander many a long wild fertile mile in the forests and bogs, free as the winds, gathering plants, and glorying in God's abounding inexhaustible spiritual beauty bread. Storms, thunderclouds, winds in the woods—were welcomed as friends.

Answer 55

Muir includes words like "welcomed" and "beauty" which forms a positive connotation to the paragraph.

Answer 56

This affects the reader because it tells the reader the positive aspects if the journey and how there is beauty all over

Answer 57

@Elsa213 is et correct

Answer 58

Correct!!!!!

Answer 59

THX ELSA