{"id":17075,"date":"2024-03-22T04:28:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T04:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/francis-ponge-there-is-so-much-to-say-about-soap-because-soap-has-so-much-to-say\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T04:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T04:28:46","slug":"francis-ponge-there-is-so-much-to-say-about-soap-because-soap-has-so-much-to-say","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/francis-ponge-there-is-so-much-to-say-about-soap-because-soap-has-so-much-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ponge, \u201cThere Is So Much to Say About Soap Because Soap Has So Much to Say\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: var(--color-6); color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit;\">instrucctions:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: var(--color-6); color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit;\">Every one of your claims should be aimed at the specific<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\">contents<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: var(--color-6); color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit;\">of the text you are interpreting\u2014any broad, general statements about the Human Condition should be avoided. Aim for as dense a written page as possible\u2014every sentence should contain an analysis of the pieces you are analyzing and should avoid any preloaded clich\u00e9s about the topic at hand.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">Look at the passage with an eye for the smallest detail: verb tense and punctuation, diction and phrasing, image and metaphor. Focus on HOW the passage means (by what techniques) more than WHAT it means (avoid summarizing and paraphrasing what the author has already expressed).<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">Examine at least one possible piece of wordplay in the piece. How does one word sounding like another make for a pun related to the piece\u2019s main theme? \u201cEye\u201d (as optic organ) puns on \u201cI\u201d (as self) and \u201caye\u201d (as yes) in several of Ralph Waldo Emerson\u2019s essays. Speak a key sentence or two out loud to yourself and locate the sounds it makes\u2014how does the gentleness or harshness of a phrase connect to the \u201cinner\u201d meaning of that phrase?<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">Address the relationship between the author and the speaker via the \u201ctone\u201d the writing takes. Look for tricks of orthography (visual spelling)\u2014in Ralph Ellison\u2019s<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"cursor: auto;\">Invisible Man<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i>a morally blind man is called a \u201cpoor fool,\u201d a phrase whose doubled<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"cursor: auto;\">o<\/i>\u2019s suggest resemble vacant eyes.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">How many of the essays\u2019 metaphors are \u201cvisual\u201d? Are any of the metaphors tactile (based on touch) or gustatory (taste) or auditory (hearing) or olfactory (smell)? Are whole-sentence modifiers like \u201cperhaps\u201d and \u201cmaybe\u201d being used to soften or qualify the piece\u2019s claim? Are \u201ccertainly\u201d and \u201cabsolutely\u201d being used to the opposite effect? Examine what sorts of words an essay is placing immediately before its periods. What sort of terms are the sentences ending on? How does ending a sentence on \u201cnever\u201d differ from ending a sentence on \u201cpossibly\u201d?<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;Every piece of literature has an \u201cimagined audience\u201d\u2014how does the language of a story or poem suggest what sort of readership it anticipates? When using words like \u201cwe\u201d or \u201cus,\u201d has the writer earned the right to speak in a collective voice? Where does the language of the piece seem demanding and elitist? Does it use foreign terms where domestic language would do? Does it use pop-culture slang to come across as \u201cunpretentious\u201d?<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Does the piece use (parentheses) as devices of intimacy or confidence? Does it engage in \u201cfalse dichotomies\u201d by splitting and polarizing our choices into too-simple black-and-white oppositions? Look at shifts in verb tenses. If the past and the future tenses are being used in the same sentence, why?<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Look at the piece\u2019s use of \u201cas\u201d or \u201clike\u201d (which signal a simile) and explain what sort of comparison is being made. Look for question marks (which are of course automatically \u201crhetorical\u201d in a written piece, and so not expecting a response) and ask yourself what these questions are<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"cursor: auto;\">really<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i>\u201csaying.\u201d<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Again, please choose from one of the 30 pieces mentioned above and be sure that each of your own sentences (outside of the first one or two and the last one or two) contains a direct quote from the work being analyzed.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><b style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><b style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">dear writter I have chosen a story for this essay and is attached below.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><b style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\"><br \/><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><b><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">format:<\/span><\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--color-6); color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 14.666667px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">Microsoft Word, three pages, double-spaced, 12-pt. font, standard margins<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>please let me know if you need more instructions or details, thanks !<br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>instrucctions: Every one of your claims should be aimed at the specific&nbsp;contents&nbsp;of the text you are interpreting\u2014any broad, general statements about the Human Condition should be avoided. 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