It often reflects that it's not yours but someone else's
Here, I improved it for you.
It's employing emotional appeal and mentioning suffering from the difficulties to elicit sorrow and sympathy from the audience, in order to encourage them to see their point of view and sympathize with them.
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Douglass advocated equal justice and rights, as well as citizenship, for blacks. He begins his speech by modestly apologizing for being nervous in front of the crowd and recognizes that he has come a long way since his escape from slavery.
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In this poem, the irony is that the last thing the author can perceive while waiting for her death is a fly buzzing while waiting for death to come to her.
Explanation:
As is already known, Emily Dickinson was known for dealing with subjects such as death. The fascination that this author had with the death led her to write great poems that were highly recognized in the environment.
One of them is "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died".
While she waits for death, and for the "<em>King</em>" who comes to look for her (which could be interpreted as God), the visit she receives is not from any divinity, but rather from a fly, which ironically represents the opposite of the divine, or to a paradise. The fly is the one that comes to rest on her dead flesh while everyone is there with her waiting for that moment.
Answer: In the short story "Marigolds" Lizabeth tells the story with flashbacks as she now understands now that she is older that the decisions she made were not the best.
Explanation: In "Marigolds" Lizabeth was at a strange age as she was a child and a woman at the same time. Her destroying the marigolds was her last tantrum as a child. After that, she understood what she did was wrong, she could now see humanity in Miss Lottie. She could identifiy with Miss Lottie as an adult as she could not do before. In the story, Lizabeth shows that her actions were wrong and that she now understands. She is now different because of the experiences she had. Life is not always beautiful but you could always plant some Marigolds to give a little beauty to an otherwise sad existence.