CHAPTER 8 Showing and Telling: Description‚ Narration‚ and Example “I was this far away when the mailman threw his bag at me and started running. All I could see were legs and letters . . .” T he essays you write and the stories you tell come alive when you use description‚ narration‚ and example. Descriptive techniques help you show your reader what you see‚ hear‚ smell‚ touch‚ or taste. Narrative techniques help you concisely tell a reader a story that makes a point. Examples
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Christmas Morning “Christmas Morning” is a short story written by the Irish author Frank O’Connor and narrated by the main character‚ Larry. Other minor characters are Larry’s mother and father and his rather annoying younger brother‚ Sonny. The story is set in Cork in the west of Ireland and we are given a unique insight into what life would have been like for many families struggling with poverty in bygone days. The theme of loss is central to the story and the reader soon becomes aware of
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Kevin Heart 4-3-12 English-110 Narrative essay Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being with malice afterthought‚ and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter). As the loss of a human being inflicts enormous grief upon the individuals close to the victim‚ as well as
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English Commentary- Snowy Morning‚ by Henry Shukman. “Snowy Morning” is a melancholy piece about the difficulty and inevitability of saying goodbye to a lifetime of images‚ sensations and the beauty of the world around us. Shukman uses images from childhood to create a sense of nostalgia as well as establishing a paradox between the fear of death and dealing with death in a facetious manner. In addition to this Shukman uses semantic fields dealing with the senses in order to create a more involved
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Bryce Sulin 1/30/11 Family Matters My favorite vacation was two summers back just before I entered high school. My family and I traveled to South Padre Island‚ Texas; located in the Gulf of Mexico; connected to Texas by only a long narrow bridge. I had high hopes for the vacation‚ but they took a plummet during the course of my vacation. Although much of my vacation was an utter disaster‚ I learned that with family you can make the best out of anything. My trip started out alright flying
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Keilyn Nguyen HEART SAYS. “You choose us or you’ll lose us‚” said my best friend – Clove. I remember it was in December of 2010. I was in grade 9 – Grad of Junior High School. My best friends and I created a group that was really naughty and popular. Sometimes we made our teachers mad. We usually helped each other in many tests and quizzes which we called that action teamwork‚ but cheating was what teachers and parents considered of. In spite of the naughtiness and popularity we had‚ we were
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Words: 894 ”One Friday Morning” by Langston Hughes The short story “One Friday Morning” is a short story by Langston Hughes and it’s one of the stories found in “The Short Stories of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes. The main theme of the short story is undoubtedly discrimination because the text is focusing on racism when the high school student Nancy Lee Johnson is not awarded the Artist Club scholarship because she is colored. Therefore the short story is a great picture of the American society
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Title: It’s Kind Of A Funny Story Author: Ned Vizzini Date Started: 4th April Date Finished: 6th May Text Type: Novel Genre: Drama Country of Origin: America Craig Gilner is a clinically depressed teenager. He gets accepted into exclusive school in Manhattan‚ promising him a good future if he is to excel. The pressure of being the average kid in class‚ piling up homework‚ pot smoking “so called” friends and the daily thoughts that he’s a failure beats him down into a deep depression. Craig
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Morning in the Burned House Margaret Atwood “Bare child’s feet on the scorched floorboards (I can almost see) In my burning clothes‚ the thin green shorts And grubby yellow T-shirt Holding my cindery‚ non-existent‚ Radiant flesh. Incandescent.” Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood is a poem describing the mind of a burned house and of how it is tormented by pain and evil; and yet‚ in the midst of this darkness‚ there is light to guide the soul of the house to safety and into
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of graduation and the weeks leading up to it. It was one of the most exciting but nerve-racking moments in my high school years. Hearing my name being called to receive my diploma made things so surreal. I realized I was walking toward a new beginning in life and at that moment I realized how fast time had past. I was no longer a child anymore. The weeks leading up to graduation felt as if they could not go any slower. There was so much anticipation building up in all of the seniors‚ it seemed as
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