freezing cold. The sky is a perfect‚ pale blue. The sun has just risen‚ weak and watery-looking‚ like it has just spilled itself over the horizon and its too lazy to clean itself up. It’s supposed to storm later‚ but you’d never know”- Simile‚ foreshadowing “It’s Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.”- Cliques “Are you excited? The big day. Opening night.”- Ironic “What’s the point of looking cute if you can’t show it off?”- Rhetorical question Day 2: “I wonder
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on Mt. Everest. He achieves this with the use of foreshadowing. An example from the text is when Krakauer’s teammates are spending time taking photos and he says‚ “nobody suspected that by the end of the day‚ every minute would matter”. This informs us that something bad is going to happen in the near future where time is valuable. This importance of time suggests their lives will be put at risk and survival will become a main focus. Foreshadowing leaves the reader to make predictions while giving
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Hindsight Bias In Flannery O’ Connors’s A Good Man is Hard to Find we are shocked by the unexpected violent end of the story. However when the story is read a second time we see that O’Conner used foreshadowing‚ and symbolism to give us many signs as to what was coming. Foreshadowing is strong throughout the beginning of the story. The first time it arises is in the first paragraph when the grandmother is reading about the crazed killer by the name of the Misfit who is on the run and headed
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listjrojnrognrok‚nrkngiytgffffffklemfkrgmrkgrkgrknrkgnrkgrkgnrkgrkngrkgnrknrk- ngrkngrknrknrkgnrkngrkngrkngrkgnrkgnrkngrkngrkngkrgnrkgnrkgn- krngrkgnrkgnkrgnrkngrkgrkrkgnngñ111111efdlsgk’l.gnek;s‚Literary Terms: Allegory: a story in which characters‚ events‚ and places represent something in real life. Alliteration: the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word‚ such as the repetition of b sounds in Keats’s "beaded bubbles winking at the brim" ("Ode to a Nightingale") or Coleridge’s
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In the story “Kansas‚” Stephen Dobyns tells how one boy’s journey through life cost him his own life in the end. It starts with a boy trying to get from his school in Oklahoma back to summer school. He is hitchhiking on some back-country roads in Kansas‚ and to his surprise his life would change forever. Dobyns is a very intelligent author and writer‚ as you can see from this great story; he is a well known writer of novels‚ short stories‚ poetry books and essays. Also he has numerous literary awards
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1-5(PP. 1-47) Reading Questions 1. The flashback is used to give a history behind the story and also background information about the author. Based on the narrator‚ I learned that he does not have a mother and his father is very popular in his town. In the first chapter‚ the description of the winter day in 1975 sounds as if the narrator is hiding something as well. They might be burying their past‚ but it also states that it always claws its way out‚ foreshadowing an event that might occur. He also
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of Foreshadowing in Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet foreshadows the execrable endings and dreadful fates of “A pair of star-crossed lovers” (Prologue.6). By chance of destiny‚ the characters Romeo and Juliet unite‚ wed‚ and die. William‚ as he does a plethora of times‚ reveals this affair with the use of foreshadowing. Shakespeare utilizes foreshadowing to bestow a relief to his audience as well as keep them interested simultaneously. Shakespeare uses foreshadowing to
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know that Jews weren’t treated poorly. But‚ do you know everything? The author Elie Wiesel can tell you his story in his book‚ Night. There are multiple themes in the book. One is Father/ son relationships. In Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses irony‚ foreshadowing‚ and tone to illustrate the traumatic event known as the Holocaust. One literary device is irony. “...They said that we were sick‚ that we would die soon‚ and it would be a waste of food. … I can’t go on… I gave him what was left of my soup”(Wiesel
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and the descriptiveness in the story is what keeps you hooked and wanting to continue reading it. Imagery is one of the most important literary devices in a book since it describes the setting‚ and makes you feel like that you are in the story. Foreshadowing in a book makes the reader stay hooked‚ and gives them the ability to predict what will happen next. Oxford dictionaries define
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Ernest Hemingway uses the flashback technique in order to characterize Santiago and develop key themes of the novel‚ such as Santiago’s connection with nature and what it means to be a hero. Hemingway employs several flashbacks as an effective technique that develops Santiago’s character as he recalls past occurrences in order to renew his strength of will. There are three flashbacks in particular that are critical to the development of this story. The first flashback describes a time when Santiago
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