The Seventh Man In the story “The seventh man” Murakami primarily employs techniques such as figurative language through the use of flashbacks and a feeling of foreboding to characterize the deadly wave. After several attempts to get K to make a last second escape‚ the wave finally makes its first appearance with a bang being depicted as “a wave like a huge snake with its head held high‚ poised to strike‚ was racing towards the shore” (Murakami‚ 178). Through the use of simile and personification
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Edgar Allen Poe begins the story with suspense as he writes about the secret vengeance plan Montresor had planned for his friend‚ Fortunato. Additionally‚ the narration of the catacomb adds suspense due to the imagery the author incorporated. Moreover‚ Edgar Allen Poe slowly unravels the horrific mood as he writes about the dark and monstrous person that Montresor is
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atmosphere in the tragedy of this play. The use of darkness in the imagery of this tragedy has a great affect on the atmosphere and the impression set on the audience. Darkness portrays mystery‚ calmness‚ and sometimes even death. It also helps create suspense and interest in the audience. Under the cover of darkness with everyone asleep Macbeth kills the king‚ Duncan. The atmosphere would be very dark‚ quiet‚ and still. Macbeth would sneak into the
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It is through great suspense and irony that Shirley Jackson tells the story of a lottery in a small town. The result of the lottery is also left open to be interpreted by the reader. All this could not be done without the use of the third person objective point of view in which the story ‚“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ is told. Shirley Jackson uses situational irony as well as verbal irony to keep the readers on their toes and especially to keep the ending a surprise. Achieving this irony would
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“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is able to secure a sense of stimulating suspense throughout its entirety. A number of literary techniques are used to evoke such an intense mood. Bierce manages to successfully provide a suspenseful atmosphere throughout the entire story because of the arrangement of the piece‚ and the usage of details and imagery. The unique arrangement of the short story coincides with the suspense of it. In the first section‚ Bierce portrays Peyton Farquhar as being trapped
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Dickens’ story “The Signalman” makes use of several elements and techniques to create suspense from the very beginning to the end. Some of them are typical of the fantastic genre to which this story falls into. There are many suspense features of remarkable transcendence such as the presentation of the characters through a narrator in first person‚ the implementation of imagery to describe the setting and the already mentioned characters and the contrast between reality and the supernatural world
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serial killer books‚ suspense‚ and classic mysteries. Smith says that’s cozies are mysteries devoid of onstage violence and sex. For example‚ in a cozy the protagonist would be a cat or a British housekeeper and also the crime solver. In serial killer books‚ everyone dies in a very gruesome and graphic way. Classic mysteries the reader asks the question of‚ what just happened? While suspense thrillers the reader asks‚ what is going to happen next? Smith goes onto explain that suspense uses multiple points
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The first scene of Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn‚ 2011)‚ has the audience following the main character on a fast paced‚ high suspense getaway scene. This first scene introduces the main character and his job as a getaway driver and creates a suspenseful hook to bring the audience into the film’s world. The scene starts out with a black screen. A man’s voice is heard in the background. The shot fades in to a map of downtown Los Angeles with words and annotations scrawled all over the page. The audience’s
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An intercultural comparison between Chinese and foreign humor Summary: Humor is a wonderful work of human civilization and wisdom‚ she smiled as a bridge‚ bond people in different culture‚ and made people recognizing the power of the humor in their normal communication. This paper will trace the historical origins of humor. From the humorous discourse features‚ themes‚ social functions‚ performance practices and seize of the subtle to start the similarities and differences between Chinese and
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blended sex‚ suspense and humor. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. He remains one of the most popular and most recognized filmmakers‚ and his works are still popular today. Hitchcock was able to master not only the art of the film making but also the art of the psychological thriller. Hitchcock trademark techniques that made his film classics today include “Emotion”‚ “The Camera is not a Camera”‚ “Dialogue is not everything”‚ and “Suspense is Information”
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