side in the most difficult times and protects him from the mother. Major literary devices and examples: "¢ Setting: The setting of the story takes place during the middle years of Dave’s childhood in a small town. "¢ Tone: The tone of the book is overly depressing. It brings tears to the reader’s eyes when Pelzer tells of his violent and lonely past‚ yet brings hope as he tells of his future. "¢ Flashback: This literary device is used throughout the book as Pelzer reflects on his past and informs
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though. While reading the story will start developing a plot‚ which includes the events that make the story‚ and the climax in the end the story that is the main event‚ and the resolution is how the characters solve the climax. Then the author uses literary devices to tell and describe the story called metaphor‚ personification‚ imagery‚ simile‚ flashback‚ and foreshadowing. That’s how reader reads fiction to understand what the author had writing. I learned Reading strategies to study my textbooks
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What is a symbol?. It can be a literary symbol: a setting‚ character‚ action‚ object‚ name‚ or anything else in a work that maintains its literal significance while suggesting other meanings or conventional symbol: widely recognized by a society or culture from the “Glossary of Literary Terms‚”website http://www.macmillanlearning.com. In the short story “Clothes”‚by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ there are many hidden symbol that is not noticeable at first glance. However‚ once student look at the short
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski is filled with a copious amount literary patterns; simply like the ones discussed in How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Within this coming of age novel‚ the occurring indicative of weather commonly takes place throughout Edgar’s life. Fundamentally‚ rain is never just rain in a story. Usually‚ it can be used as an indication for something. At the very beginning of the book‚ inside the prologue‚ it begins with‚ “After dark the rain began to fall
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fortunate‚ something that he is not by the end of the story. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe uses prediction and dramatic irony and verbal irony to show Fortunato’s misfortunes which eventually lead to his death. Irony and prediction are literary devices used in literature. Foreshadowing is when an element in the story is used to hint an event that will occur further along in the story. There are many different types of Irony. One of these is dramatic irony‚ which refers to when a character
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and eventually turns it into the ultimate concealed irony. In a sense Desiree’s Baby is a story that reveals itself prematurely throughout the narrative which allows us to guess its conclusion at several moments when the narrative voice includes literary devices to help the narrative flow. But how does this foreshadowing help the reader to infer the ending? One of the first moments of these foreshadowing episodes is the fully detailed description of L’Abri atmosphere. The first hint of this foreshadowing
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“ silver sleeps the dog….silver claws….silver eye…silver stream..”. This example shows how he used the word ‘silver’ to show how the nature was nice and great to look at or imagine. To portray the night De La Mare uses numerous literary devices as well. The literary device he uses illustrates a phenomenal
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Summer Reading Project: Chocolat Literary Terms 1. Simile: a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are explicitly compared‚ usually by means of like or as Example- Her eyes are like the midnight sky just as they were sparkling. 2. Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that designates one thing is applied to another in another in an implicit comparison Example- Life is a journey; choose the right path. 3. Style: the way in which something is said‚ done
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Tolentino‚ Fenina Gabrielle M. 11074523 January 8‚ 2013 Assignment #1 1. What are the different types of Literary Criticisms? * New Criticism / Formalism - This type of criticism concerns itself with the parts of a text and how the parts fit together to make a whole. Because of this‚ it does not bring in any information outside of the text: biography of the author‚ historical or literary allusions‚ mythological patterns‚ or the psychoanalytical traits of the characters (except those traits specifically
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Aliyah Singh Ms. Ribeiro ENG3U 10/04/11 Comparative Essay Are you’re actions based on what you believe or what your see and desire? In the text The Bet by Anton Chekhov and the text The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant both authors deal with the main idea that money and materialistic goods control peoples action in a larger scale than we realize. While both The Bet and The Necklace explore the idea of irony and symbolism‚ The Necklace goes on to use characterization while The Bet
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