Literature provides the opportunity for authors to use words to describe a story, whether true or fiction. The reader is provided details to have an imaginary movie playing out in their mind while reading the story. The reader is connected with the characters, the environment, and the emotion experienced during the story. In this essay, I will be utilizing the formalist approach to review a story and further explore literature.…
1 RYERSON UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH English 108: Introduction to Fiction W2015 Instructor: Dr. M. Tschofen Office: JOR 1005 Office Hours: by appointment: Mondays: 10:00-‐11:00 Emails: Professor: Monique.tschofen@ryerson.ca TAs: Amy Loys: Amy.Loyst@ryerson.ca, Nick White: n8white@ryerson.ca • Emails will only be accepted from @ryerson.ca accounts • Put ENG 108 in subject line and allow 2 days for a reply • Please use email only after you have first checked the syllabus, Blackboard, and assignment instructions. TA and prof office hours are best for complex queries. • Questions should be sent to TAs first; they will forward unanswered concerns to the course professor.…
Mood is reflected in the four poems by the different poets utilising various devices and techniques such as the diction, language, alliteration etc, in order to display a certain message to the audience.…
As a class, we will read the short story and complete a short story analysis. The analysis will be a review for literary elements.…
A short story and poem, no matter how structurally different, are two literary pieces where a rich story is embedded. Readers are drawn towards these scripts by means of rhythm (poem), characterization, or a fictional setting in their respective narratives. However, the mere script would not make it entertaining enough to hold the reader’s attention. It would depend on the imagination of the readers as they are reading the story as to what they take from it. Every reader has their own way of visualizing the descriptions and symbolism used by the author. It is through imagination that the readers are able to interpret what the author is trying to depict within the symbolism and other descriptive languages. The beauty of stories and poems is that they are generated and created through the readers own imagination which consequently allows each individual reader to build their own personal connection with the literary piece. The two literary pieces “The Road Not Taken” (poem) and the short story “A Worn Path” are different in terms of actual writing styles, however they both share the same theme which is every person’s journey is greatly governed by their decisions and no matter how many paths there may be, it is still the choices that the person makes that determine the ending of his or her journey. Each one conveys a theme of life journeys and the challenges and struggles that go along with those journeys. In “The Road Not Taken” it is the journey one must make while trying to choose the right path in life. One path seemingly offers a more familiar road and perhaps the easier of the two. The other path is clearly been less traveled upon, yet yearns to be. In “A Worn Path” the journey that one woman takes on in order to care for her sick grandchild is unfolded. It is…
Write an essay of 900-1200 words that analyzes your chosen poem and articulates how your artistic choices in your creative interpretation respond to specific thematic, formal, historical, and/or material aspects of the poem.…
After reading The Letter From Sullivan Ballou i noticed that it was quite similar to An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge. Both had something to do with the love the men felt for their wives and the reality of knowing that they might be dead soon. This story and letter have the same meaning but put into two different ideas. Farquhar knew was going to be hung for wrong doing and Ballou Knew he had a chance of surviving or dying in war, They both thought about their wives while knowing this.…
(Warning: This novel contains some explicit language. If this is an issue for you or your child, please contact the English Department Chair at karthur@bcps.org to discuss. An alternate assignment can be created.)…
Read the poems a few times, noting each one’s theme, mood, form, structure, rhyme scheme, and use of imagery and figurative language. Use the provided table to record your analysis.…
CONTEXT: A text from the same author, students will be encouraged to make connections between the style of writing and the fictional story being told…
Padgett, Ron. The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms. New York, NY: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2000. Print.…
6) “Most professional students of literature learn to take in the foreground detail while seeing the detail reveals. Like the symbolic imagination, this is a function of being able to distance oneself from the story, to look beyond the purely affective level of plot, drama, characters. Experience has proved to them that life and books fall into similar patterns. Nor is this skill exclusive to English professors.” pg.4…
Lady Mary Wroth Possible Lines of Approach Gender and women’s writing Form and genre Historical and political contexts Notes on Approaching Particular Works The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania Pamphilia and Amphilanthus Questions for Discussion Critical Viewpoints/Reception History Appendices Appendix 1: Sidney–Herbert Family Tree Appendix 2: Correspondence between Lady Mary Wroth and Lord Denny Possible Lines of Approach Gender and women’s writing • This approach emphasizes Wroth’s position as the first Englishwoman to write and publish a sonnet sequence and a prose romance; it considers thematic elements in the works, as well as their contemporary reception.…
lts Writer, "Writing About Short Stories," and the Module 2 Lecture for information'on writing critical analyses of…
Abstract: This study makes an attempt to analyze Death of a Salesman in an attempt…