Mary Shelley’s style in the novel Frankenstein is quite enthralling. Shelley is a very eloquent writer‚ and she writes with a romantic style. Mary Shelley is highly appealing to her readers’ emotions. The tone in the novel changes throughout‚ as well as the narrator. Her use of diction‚ sentence structure‚ and tone tells the reader multiple things about Mary Shelley herself. One thing Shelley did quite often in Frankenstein is change who was telling the story. It begins with Robert Walton writing
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Often in novels‚ the author is able to personify and use the setting as an imperative aspect of a story such that it could almost take the form of a character. For Homer Hickam Jr. (Sonny)‚ Coalwood was not only his hometown‚ but it became his motivation to continue building and launching his rockets. Every house in Coalwood was occupied with families of coal miners‚ and for someone to participate in another activity besides football was rare and often discouraged. “Only coal mining was more important
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John Steinbeck uses many literary techniques in The Grapes of Wrath to help the reader better understand the story. One of these techniques that is of particular importance is his use in writing the intercalary chapters. Steinbeck uses these intercalary chapters to foreshadow the events that will occur in the regular chapters that tell the Joad’s story. The extent of description that Steinbeck uses in these chapters allows them to fit very well into the novel. Clearly‚ the author’s goal is to have
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Literary Techniques: Poetry Analysis 1 Diction and Imagery Literary Techniques • The meaning of a poem (i.e its focus‚ mood and the speaker’s attitude) is enhanced by four main types of literary techniques: • Diction • Imagery • Sound devices • Rhythm‚ Rhyme and Repetition Diction • Diction is the choice of words a poet uses to bring meaning across. In working through a poem‚ it is useful to question why a certain word is used‚ and what kind of effect is achieved with the choice and placement
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sister‚ who they never saw again. At this point he starts his excruciating journey into the terror of the holocaust. In portraying his story‚ Wiesel uses a variety of literary devices including foreshadowing‚ poetic language‚ and a first person perspective to help capture the impact of his journey. In "Night"‚ Wiesel uses the techniques of foreshadowing to engage the reader and to build a feeling of dread and despair. In the beginning of the book‚ Moshe the Beadle immediately foreshadows the trouble
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In the piece “ The Company Man” by Ellen Goodman he describes the life of a man named Phil through literary techniques. Ellen spoke of the man unable to be memorable and a pedestrian man who was easily replaced. Utilizing them he created an apathetic attitude that accepted Phil’s death quite easily despite him being a “Type A” worker and a vice president for a company . Rhetorical techniques that were incorporated in the writing include both the writer’s and Phil’s “Dearly beloved” perspective ‚
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Going Home In the piece “On Going Home” Joan Didion uses many literary techniques to emphasis her sentences. Didion’s use of quotation marks around specific words stands out first to the reader. The quotation marks suggest that the meaning she was trying to come across was a bit different from the original meaning the word normally would carry. For example when Didion quotes the words “happy‚ home‚ and normal”‚ they are usually described as positive meaning. But it depends on how the reader takes
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Dulce was written in response to Jesse Pope’s patriotic poem motivating men to go to war called Who’s for the Game? She compared the war to a innocent rugby game‚ a verse that could have irritated was Who would much rather come back with a crutch Than lie low and be out of the fun? The fact that Jesse said that people would come back with just a crutch was insane‚ it was portrayed as bad to stay at home‚ instead of not fighting being described as safe Jesse called it ‘ lying low’ which comes across
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Faulkner’s masterful technique creates a first person look into the unraveling mind of a time obsessed boy. In The Sound and The Fury‚ by William Faulkner‚ Quentin Compson slings to the past and tries desperately to stay afloat. As the old order crumbles and sinks around him‚ Quentin has to make a choice whether to sink or to float. Like Quentin‚ Faulkner saw how society was changing‚ which is where he probably got the idea for the character. Faulkner took inspiration from his experiences growing
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The Invisible Man is rich in literary devices. This book is written as a satire of. Not much was expected of African Americans at that time‚ and so they did whatever they had to do‚ whereas whites had certain things they were expected to do to be successful. Ellison uses the first person narrative in order to reveal the narrator’s thoughts and feelings‚ so we can see more clearly his changes in personality. The book is considered a milestone in American literature‚ because it was written at a time
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