of Plot Give an example of each plot element from the story in this chart. Quote the relevant passages from the story‚ and explain why you chose each example. Type your response here: Narrative Element Example from “To Build a Fire” foreshadowing flashback suspense 4. Casting the Story as a Movie Pretend that you are a movie director who wants to make London’s “To Build a Fire” into a movie. You are going to Hollywood to present your ideas to a producer who will determine whether you
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start of school. Throughout the story‚ the author uses narrative techniques such as point of view‚ foreshadowing‚ and the main plot in order to convey the meaning of the short story that includes; love‚ pride and shame. The author uses first person point of view to describe the experiences she went through with her mother while enrolling for school. The narrator includes a series of flashbacks such as mentioning her father‚ who left them while she was young. This technique gives the readers access
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2. Rhetorical Devices and Literary Techniques Rhetorical devices and literary techniques are closely related to tone and style. In fact‚ an author’s style partly consists of selecting and using certain devices; an author’s tone is partially determined by the type of techniques an author uses. Many SAT books will list lots of Greek terms you don’t need to know‚ such as synecdoche and anaphora. But the Critical Reading section won’t require that you know the names of rhetorical devices or literary
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Araby By: James Joyce I. Elements of Fiction A. Settings The year is 1894. The place is North Richmond Street in Ireland’s largest city‚ Dublin. The street dead-ends at an empty house of two stories. Araby - the name of the bazaar B. Characters * Boy (Narrator) – the protagonist of the story‚ an adolescent who is in love with her friend’s sister. * Mangan – the boy’s best friend‚ who is about the same age with the narrator. * Mangan’s sister – the boy’s crush‚ who lives
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neither a romance nor a farce. It is a contemplative work concerning the human experience. It is split into three acts. Act I takes place on May 7‚ 1901; Act II takes place on July 7‚ 1904‚ with a flashback to approximately one year earlier; Act III takes place in the summer of 1913‚ with a flashback to February 11‚ 1899. Each scene takes place in Grover’s Corners‚ New Hampshire. Its theme is based around the transience of human life; the importance of companionship; the artificiality of the theater
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Cormac McCarthy gives his story All the Pretty Horses an unique organization. The book only has four chapters within‚ yet each chapter is lengthy. There are also very few flashbacks in this story. This flashback was needed‚ however‚ to show how things did not change after John Grady Cole’s grandfather died. “On the wall opposite above the sideboard was an oilpainting of horses. . . . his grandfather looked up from his plate at the painting‚” shows the painting being there while his grandfather
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Calicut Flashback: A term which is probably from the cinema and which is now also used to describe any scene or episode in a play‚novel‚ story or poem which is inserted to show events that happened in an earlier time. It is frequently used in modern fiction. Flashback in the story. Medicinal smell reminds homemade solution. Waiting in the hospital- she remembers the morning three weeks ago. When she sees Merlin- she remembers how she taught Liam to spot wildlife. Foreshadowing: The technique
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novel include power‚ status‚ and the pursuit of the American Dream‚ all relevant to the setting of mid-depression California. The author highlights these themes with techniques such as description‚ figurative language‚ dialect‚ direct speech‚ foreshadowing and repetition. These techniques assist in developing the themes throughout the plot and bring
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Bierce utilizes flashbacks to describe the lifestyle Farquhar led before he was caught messing with the bridge. The story describes Farquhar’s life and work by telling how he is “a well-to-do plantar‚ as well as a slave owner who is devoted to the Southern cause” (84). Bierce mixes a bit of foreshadowing and suspense within one flashback. Farquhar has a soldier at his home asking for a drink of water (in that time‚ this was
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Chronology is in what order events are revealed. What really captured my attention is the foreshadowing that is revealed throughout the story. Foreshadowing is a technique in which an author hints about things to come later in the story (Kirszner & Mandell‚ 2012). Faulkner does this in multiple ways throughout this story. It seems that much of this foreshadowing points the the inevitable discovery of Homer Barron’s remains. One instance in the narrator explains that shortly
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