From the rippulous pond came the comfortable sound of the humming-fish humming while splashing around. source: dr. seuss. the lorax. new york: random house, 1971. google books. web. 18 may 2011. how does the diction affect the imagery in the poem? the adjective “comfortable” the reader “see” the fish. the verb “splashing” the reader “touch” the pond. the noun “pond” the reader “taste” the fish. the noun “rippulous” the reader “hear” the pond.

The adjective "rippulous" helps the reader to "listen" to the pond.

Explanation:

Imagery is a literary technique, where the author uses a word that from depth to text and stimulates the reader's senses. In this text, the word responsible for this is the adjective "rippulous" that stimulates the reader's hearing so that the reader can "hear" the sound of the pond described in the text by reading.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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