the 5 senses to make your writing more interesting. Add details to tell the reader what you see‚ hear‚ smell. taste‚ and feel. Keep in mind that feel can be emotions and touch. 2) Share one or more of the following stories; a boring Beach Story‚ Morning Story‚ A Cold Day Story. Then read the exciting ones. Morning Time I woke up this morning and knew it was going to be a good day. I got dressed in my favorite outfit. I brushed my teeth. I brushed my hair. Then I went downstairs and
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III honors 14 October 2011 The Short Stories Quiet‚ But Aggressive Approach Novels are superfluous while short stories strive for flawlessness‚ ensuring meticulously picked details and succinct plots. The short story utilizes the complex and vivid words the English language has to offer‚ painting pictures in the minds of the reader‚ while the novel overwhelms the reader with redundant and arbitrarily picked language. Steven Millhauser says that Short stories illustrate the message or meaning that
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Two stories of two love birds who were so deeply in love but‚ couldn’t be together due to the cruel fate. One story was based on a book and the other one was based on a poem. In face it is commonly known that Willian Shakespeare stole the story from a poem that was written by Arthur Brooke and West Side Story was kind of based of off Romeo & Juliet. Both stores are really romantic. Overall both of them are beautiful musical play/ movie. The love birds met at the dance where they deeply fell in love
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5 Important Elements of a Short Story A short story is a short work of fiction. Fiction‚ as you know‚ is prose writing about imagined events and characters. Prose writing differs from poetry in that it does not depend on verses‚ meters or rhymes for its organization and presentation. Novels are another example of fictional prose and are much longer than short stories. Some short stories‚ however‚ can be quite long. If a a short story is a long one‚ say fifty to one hundred pages‚ we call it
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A short story on The True Story of Ah Q Two very important novels from Chinese literature were written in response to societies faults. Lu Hsun’s short storie "The True Story of Ah Q" and Pa Chin’s famous novel The Family‚ both commented on political and sociological problems that occurred in China in the early 1900s. Because of major events‚ like the revolution of 1911 and The May Fourth Movement‚ these novels address the situations during these time periods. Women’s rights‚ individual freedom
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Haroun Reading Reflection One lesson that Haroun learns throughout the book was that good stories are not a waste of time and that they should be valued highly because they can change people and minds. He knows that his father‚ Rashid Khalifa‚ is an excellent storyteller because of his never ending stream of stories he tells‚ and how each one is as carefully thought out as the last. He loves his father and mother very much‚ and they live a happy life in a basement of a building in the “sad city
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As a storyteller for children‚ I would like to share my latest favourite story for primary aged children. This comes from a book by Anne Rockwell. The Story Snail Lee’s version of a story by Anne Rockwell Once upon a time there was a boy named John. John was a nice boy‚ and a kind boy‚ but there was nothing that he was really good at doing. Nothing at all. Everyone laughed at him and teased him. So one day‚ he ran away. He ran away to the paddock and he hid in the long tall grass
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of Poker Flat Bret Harte’s story of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" Is a study in moral contrast‚ faced with calamity. The characters react indifferent and unpredictable. Theirs John Oakhurst who is a gambling man‚ uncle Billy who is a slues robber‚ the duchess tow sisters who sell their body’s‚ and last but not least theirs Mother Shipton a proper English woman. I rank the duchess number one‚ because their the two who start the whole conflict in the story. The duchesses are kicked out of
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In the short story The Story of an Hour‚ the author Kate Chopin focuses on the theme of finding one’s self identity and becoming free and independent as an individual. The theme becomes emphasized in the sentence “But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome. There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself” (202). This sentence expresses
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Within the first pages of the book‚ introduces us to the world of short stories. It lets us know that throughout the 19th and 20th centuries that Americans found stories in random places such as newspapers‚ all manners of magazines and they gained a wide variety of attention from critics as an essential part of literary studies Creative writing classes pop up at American universities and colleges drastically in the past 30 years. Bookstores‚ coffeehouses seemed to sponsor author readings and meetings
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