The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime is a 2003 novel written by the British author Mark Haddon. It won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year‚ and the Commonwealth Writers’’ Prize for best first book. Christopher‚ fifteen-year-old boy with behavioral problems‚ lives with his father in Swindon‚ England. His mother has been dead for over 2 years. He discovers the dead body of Wellington‚ the neighbor’s dog‚ speared by a garden fork‚ and Christopher
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Harper Lee uses imagery to intensify the mood of terror and suspense as Jem trespassed on the Radley property. In the story Scout says‚ “I tripped‚ the roar of a shotgun shattered the neighborhood.” This quote shows how when scout tripped the shotgun was so loud that it disturbed the whole neighborhood. Lee writes‚ “at first I thought it was a tree‚ but there was no wind blowing‚ and tree trunks never walked. From Scout’s point of view‚ we see that she describes the man as a tall tree that was moving
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Hamlet‚ as a ghost bearing terrible news. The ghost tells Hamlet that he was killed by Claudius‚ his brother and Hamlet’s uncle. Then when he was out of the way‚ Claudius seduced the queen. Throughout the passage‚ Shakespeare uses diction and imagery to help readers understand and connect with the ghost and Hamlet’s feelings of “contempt” towards the new King Claudius and Queen Gertrude. The passage begins with the ghost. He tells that everyone was told that he was “stung” by a snake and
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to memorize battles‚ honor those who fight or just to glorify war itself. What tools can writers use to protest war? Writers use three techniques to achieve the protest of war. They use Imagery‚ Irony‚ and Structure. A way writers use to protest war is by using Imagery. Crane used very strong glorifying imagery. He put negative images next to the glorified images and that was his way of protesting war. “Hoarse‚ booming drums of the regiment” is an example of glorified images. “A field where a thousand
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Task 1: Term 1: Visual Imagery: Is the use of vivid or figurative language to represent images‚ objects‚ actions or ideas. In the poem Driving to Town Late Late to Mail a Letter by Robert Bly‚ the author uses Visual Imagery to describe the view of the day. When Bly uses “It is a cold and snowy night. The main street is deserted” (1)‚ we can picture it as if we were with the speaker driving around on a lonely and cold day. Visual Imagery is important to this piece of literature because it allows us
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He is ostracized by the village and lives all alone in a small old house. Similarly‚ “Ol’ Higue by Mark Mcwatt is a poem about what Caribbean people would call a soucouyant which is in essence‚ a female vampire that takes off her old skin at night and turns into a fire ball‚ lurking through the nights to feed on her poor victims. Interestingly enough‚ the soucouyant is the female counterpart for the lagahoo. The old woman is “Ol’ Higue”‚ like Le Brun‚ lives alone in an old house. She almost never
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device is imagery which is word pictures used by a writer to illustrate‚ illuminate‚ or embellish their thought. Throughout Macbeth William Shakespeare uses the imagery of blood to illustrate how the want for power can make people do things that they would normally never think about doing. Blood usually represents death and killing especially throughout Macbeth. In the play there are many places where blood is used to create vivid scenes in the audience’s head. One example of this imagery is when
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Imagery in Phillis Wheatley’s Poems Phillis Wheatley was a black slave born in Africa and brought to America‚ in particular Boston in 1761. Wheatley was purchased by John Wheatley‚ a wealthy tailor as a gift for his wife‚ Susannah. Wheatley was quite fortunate in her surroundings due to the sympathy Susannah had towards her. Susannah saw Wheatley as a frail and intelligent child. Wheatley lived from 1753-1784 and in this time period most white women did not even receive an education. Fortunately
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bitter political and literary difference between Dryden and Shadwell. Dryden however makes literature alone as the basic subject of his poem and does not indulge in any sort of political stunt. The subject of literature is bound up with pervasive imagery of coronation. Flecknoe‚ whose name had become a synonym for all bad versifiers in Dryden’s time‚ is the king of the realm of nonsense. He is tired out with business and decides to settle the succession of the state. Flecknoe is looking for a successor
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The notion of the ‘outsider’ is used in numerous literary works and media‚ mainly as a foil or an atypical character‚ to satirically criticise humanities flawed ideals and values. I found this particularly evident in the film‚ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button‚ where the story of a man with a strange anachronistic lifecycle exhibited people’s quick assumptions and judgement based solely on semblance. From the very beginning‚ the central character Benjamin Button is presented as the outsider‚
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