Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
Pull at least FIVE words or phrases out, define them, describe their effect, and tell what the overall impact those words or phrases give to the piece as a whole while incorporating into the post the textual evidence you pulled out from it to define.
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Tree-devouring-Chinese-beetle-reaches-Albany-2235586.php
1. Not instituting a quarantine on the movement
- Quarantine: Strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- Effect: showing how serious the bettles can be. So that people would put trees in quarantine.
2. In the vicinity for potentialPull at least FIVE words or phrases out, define them, describe their effect, and tell what the overall impact those words or phrases give to the piece as a whole while incorporating into the post the textual evidence you pulled out from it to define.
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Tree-devouring-Chinese-beetle-reaches-Albany-2235586.php
1. Not instituting a quarantine on the movement
- Quarantine: Strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- Effect: showing how serious the bettles can be. So that people would put trees in quarantine.
- Vicinity: The area or region near or around a place.
- Effect: showing that this beetle problem is in the Albany area.
3. An invasive Chinese beetle
- Invasive: characterized by or involving invasion.
- Effect: Showing that this is a serious problem and the beetle can cause bad things. (Killing trees)
4. Signs of infestation by the beetle
- Infestation: The act of infesting: to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner.
- Effect: showing that the beetle is starting to or can start to become a problem, when it comes to the trees, sort of like the effect invasion has.
5. transport of untreated firewood
- Untreated: To not deal with (A disease, patient, exc.) in order to relieve or cure.
- Effect: showing/ emphasizing how untreated firewood can be dagerous and what type of wood is effected with the beetle.
This article was about a Chinese beetle which eats/ kills ash trees. It explains that the beetle is starting to come into our area.The effect that these words have in the piece is that they are all showing how much of a threat the beetle is to the wood. They show where this is happening and the degree so far at which this is happening.
When the author put in words like infestation and invasive, "for potential signs of infestation by the beetle"they were showing that the beetle is a burrden in which no one wants and they are a problem. When the author put in the word vicinity, "Wildlife officials are checking trees in the vicinity" he was simply stating how officals are checking the general area for signs of the beetles. When the author put in the word untreated, "the state banned transport of untreated firewood to 50 miles or less" they were stating how much of a problem this beetle can be and how it poses a threat of spreading, which would not be good.
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