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    ” both written by Shirley Jackson‚ can be depicted as similar as they collectively use the literary devices imagery‚ symbolism‚ and foreshadowing. Jackson is able to utilise the literary tool of imagery in both “The Lottery” and “The Possibility of Evil” to elaborate and expand on the many different aspects of her stories. At the beginning of “The Lottery‚” Shirley Jackson utilises imagery to create a clear‚ concise setting of the story. “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny‚ with fresh warmth

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    Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time‚ by Mark Haddon‚ relies on the narration of a fifteen year old autistic boy to tell a simple yet convoluted story of murder‚ betrayal and triumph. At first thought‚ Christopher Boone‚ would not seem to be a reliable narrator yet Haddon asks the reader to take a leap of faith by believing in Christopher’s abilities despite the limitations of autism. Using Christopher’s point of view‚ straightforward and honest narrative diction‚ imagery as well as the physical images

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    In these key lines from the book‚ Lady Macbeth mutters key fragments of an imaginary conversation which she recalls having with her husband Macbeth. Lady Maceth’s thoughts are being unraveled and her tortured imagination is being set free. ‘Out‚ damn’d spot! out‚ I say! One; two: why‚ then ’tis time to do’t. In this piece of text Lady Macbeth is calling on evil spirits‚ and chanting different callings. Lady Macbeth is embracing her inner evil‚ and becoming a new person. In her chanting she recites

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    Night of the Scorpion-Nissim Ezekiel MATCHES: Two Scavengers in a Truck‚ Nothing’s Changed-Two Cultures Vultures‚ Limbo-Contrasting Views Nissim Ezekiel (White male poet): 1. Nissim Ezekiel was born in Bombay‚ now Mumbai‚ India in 1924. 2. His parents were Israeli and he was brought up with the Jewish faith‚ though he had friends of many different religions. 3. As a child he was very serious about religion and often spoke to his friends on a deep scale in relation to religious matters

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    helps her continue when she experiences painful events like the death of her relatives‚ and even rape. Through critical and hopeful tone and uses of symbolism and imagery‚ Esperanza Cordero shows practice of art‚ whether it’s painting or writing‚ can help to get through hardship‚ in The House on Mango Street. Esperanza uses symbolism and imagery to show the hardship she faced and to prove how she was

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    Imagery is used in many forms of writing. From poems‚ to novels or even in magazine articles‚ it helps produce an image to help the reader truly visualize the words being spoken. It brings the text alive‚ giving it a great meaning and serving a greater purpose. Through imagery‚ secrets within the text can be revealed‚ furthering the analyzation of the text itself. In Vladimir Nabokov’s book Lolita‚ the use of imagery definitely plays a large part in the development of the characters and how the reader

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    Estera Bors Mr. Leineweber A.P. Literature and Composition 01 October 2014 IMAGERY: Imagery is a description in a work of literature that can be created through the natural senses of the human body‚ including visual‚ auditory‚ olfactory‚ and tactile elements. EXAMPLE: "I never felt easy till the raft was two mile below there and out in the middle of the Mississippi… I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds… we said there warn’t no home like a raft‚ after all. Other places seem so cramped

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    often contain imagery as well as character motivation to highlight a certain message. In both The Road and 1984‚ characters are forced to live in a dystopian society that is pessimistic and disorderly.The writers of the two novels‚ Orwell and McCarthy‚ incorporate imagery of destruction when describing the setting‚ and create characters that are motivated for negative reasons to survive day- by- day. Both authors use imagery and character motivation to emphasize a pessimistic world. Imagery of destruction

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    Night By Elie Wiesel Hope or despair? The book "Night" by Elie Wiesel is a first-person narrative about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the genocide of over 6 million European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II The book tells the story of the time when the author was taken to a concentration camp by the Nazis. At the time he was only 14 years old and lived in Sighet‚ Transylvania. He tells us all of his horrifying experiences as a Jewish prisoner. Even though he tells us this gruesome

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    8/1/11 AP World History Book Report Elie Wiesel’s Night is a terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horrors that turned between 11 to 17 million people into agonized witnesses to the deaths of their families and friends. I chose this book to read because I had heard from numerous people that it was "the best book about the Holocaust I could ever read" . I read it and found out that it went into much more detail than some of the other Holocaust books I had read. This book was extremely powerful

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