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    Types of Short Fiction Chapter Review 1. What are the differences between parables and fables? The difference is that the moral of the fable is stated explicitly; while a parable is often of a religious or spiritual nature. 2. How is a Tale different from a parable or fable? A tale does not point to a moral like a parable or fable‚ instead it is almost as generalized in its depiction of character and setting. 3. Briefly summarize Aesop’s “The Wolf and the Mastiff” and explain the moral of this

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    English 101O Dr. Willis October 6‚ 2014 Rise of the Future for the Science Fiction Genre “Get your stinking paws off of me‚ you damn dirty ape‚” yelled Dodge concerned about if Ceasar was going to hurt him or abide by him like most animals. After being whipped across the body by the stun gun many times‚ Ceasar yelled angrily back at Dodge‚ “No!” What is this? This can not be‚ apes can not speak! While Dodge was trying to gather all of his thoughts together to figure out what had just happened

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    Crime Fiction‚ more than any other genre‚ engages the reader through the art of suspense. The short stories “The Red Headed League” written by Arthur Conan Doyle and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dhal‚ along with the T.V. episode “Third Floor Flat” directed by Christopher Gunning all use suspense to engage their audiences. Dhal uses both creativeness and clever use of manipulation of plot structure to intrigue the reader and build suspense. Similarly‚ Gunning misleads the audience’s interpretations

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    The Loch Ness Monster: Fact or fiction? This question seems simple enough‚ but there so many factors that must be weighed that the actual answer is much harder to give. For a legend as old as the monster is‚ fact and lore blur into one story that any interested party must sift through before they have any hope of understanding of the truth about the Loch Ness Monster. There is no definitive proof for or against the existence of the Loch Ness Monster‚ but the few facts that do exist suggest it is

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    People knew spies were dangerous‚ “but then it was precisely the amateur spy who was the greatest danger of all”(Orwell 78). Spies let the party watch people and they are very dangerous. Spies give the party control in a similar way that the telescreen does. The people never know if there is a spy around‚ but because there could be people that act the way that the party wants them to. Spies “adored the Party and every-thing connected with it”(Orwell 31). That’s another reason the spies are so dangerous

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    repression‚ Chopin reveals in her writing of “The story of an Hour”. In this short story Kate Chopin brings the reader to ask him or herself many thought provoking questions such as “Does love always lead to happiness?” through her use of the elements of fiction. Love does not always lead to happiness. In the opening line of the short story‚ Chopin already begins to use irony when she writes‚ “knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble…” (1) This normal seeming sentence has a much deeper

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    Pulp Fiction Throughout Quinton Tarantino’s horribly graphic movie‚ Pulp Fiction‚ women are treated and referred to as inferior to men. Both the women characters and the dialogue in the movie suggest that women have to be taken care of and protected by men. Even the most powerful of the women characters in the movie‚ Mia‚ is looked after by one of her husband’s thugs while he is out of town. On the other hand‚ Tarantino has the complete antithesis of Mia thrown in the movie to make women

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    One of the main aspects of a science-fiction story is its setting. The time and place notifies the reader that the story is indeed a fantasy‚ and may have unordinary topics. The time of a science-fiction story can either be the past‚ present‚ or future. What makes fantasy novels unique is that it may take place in the very distant future without question. The location of the story may also be very distant‚ for example it may be in another galaxy. The place may also be far-fetched. In other

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    that no one could have made that up. Things that happen in real life can be more unbelievable than those an author makes up. Fiction demands reasoning and truth does not. Fiction has to abide by more expectations in order to keep a reader in a believable state more so than real life simply because real life is has unexplainable exceptions. We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind; such as mass merchandising and advertising. Life is like living inside a gigantic novel. For the writer in particular

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    Pashkov House 09/09/2013 20:00 Art of fiction conspectus Novelists: DM - David Mitchell EW - Evie Wyld AI - Alexander Ilichevsky What is key to the art of fiction? [DM] This is an enormous question. St.Augustin’s expression comes to mind: “I know exactly what time is until someone asks me to explain it”. I feel the same way about this question. However I would say there are 5 key elements in the art of fiction: * Plot: what happens in the story * Character: who it happens

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