Please helppp!! Excerpt from My Antonia by Willa Cather
We sat looking off across the country, watching the sun go down. The curly grass about us
was on fire now. The bark of the oaks turned red as copper. There was a shimmer of gold on
the brown river. Out in the stream the sandbars gineredke glass and the light trembled in
the willow thickets as if idle flames were leaping among them. The breeze sak to stress. In
the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and somewhere off in the bushes an owl hosted
The girls sat listless, leaning against each other. The long fingers of the sun touched their
foreheads
Presently we saw a curious thing. There were no clouds, the sun was going down in a limpid
gold-washed sky. Just as the lower edge of the red disc tested on the high fields against the
horizon, a great black figure suddenly appeared on the face of the sun. We sprang to our feet
straining our eyes toward it. In a moment we realized what it was On some up and farma
plough had been left standing in the field. The sun was sinking just behind it. Magnified across
the distance by the horizontal light, it stood out against the sun was exactly contained within
the circle of the disc; the handles, the tongue, the share-black against the molten red. There
it was, heroic in size, a picture writing on the sun
Even while we whispered about it, our vision disappeared the ball dropped and dropped un
the red tip went beneath the earth. The fields below us were dark, the sky was growing pole
and that forgotten plough had sunk back to its own littleness somewhere on the prairie.

The tone of this passage is best described as...

- Apathetic
- whimsical
- contemplative
- desolate

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Explanation:

what: when quoting a source, use the author’s words verbatim, or word-for-word. this means you shouldn’t change any grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. put quotations around the words to tell your reader where the quote begins and where it ends.

you also need to acknowledge the author. for example, if using mla format for your research paper, you should have in-text citations with the author’s name and page number listed at the end of each quote.

when: use quotations to provide concrete examples to support your claims. using direct quotations is a great way to build your credibility on the subject. it’s also a good idea to quote your source when the author states things in a powerful way. if you think he or she said it best, then use the exact words to share the ideas.

example: in the short story “a jury of her peers”, mrs. hale compares mrs. wright to her caged bird, saying “she—come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself. real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and—fluttery. how—she—did—change” (glaspell).

paraphrasing

what: paraphrasing differs from quoting because you restate the passage in your own words. since you don’t use the author’s words, you don’t need to use quotation marks. however, you still need to acknowledge the author for his or her ideas.

when paraphrasing a text, you should communicate the full meaning of the text; don’t change the meaning. it can be a condensed version of the text, or it could end up being longer than the source it’s paraphrasing.

when: you use paraphrasing when you take notes, or explain a chart or diagram to someone. paraphrasing highlight the important parts of a larger text. it also allows you to simplify the ideas for your readers.

example:

original: “it was no ordinary thing that called her away–it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in dickson county. but what her eye took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving: her bread all ready for mixing, half the flour sifted and half unsifted” (glaspell).

paraphrase: as mrs. hales walks around mrs. wright’s home, she notices that the kitchen is in disarray as if she was in the middle of baking bread (glaspell).

journalism is the gathering, organizing, and distribution of news -- to include feature stories and commentary -- through the wide variety of print and non-print media outlets. it is not a recent phenomenon, by any means; the earliest reference to a journalistic product comes from rome circa 59 b.c., when news was recorded in a circular called the acta diurna. it enjoyed daily publication and was hung strategically throughout the city for all to read, or for those who were able to read.