Room’ is the use of personification; "made the shadows cower and quiver". The shadow embeds fear into the reader‚ as they wonder if the shadow is alive‚ which creates tension as the reader wonders what will happen next. Furthermore‚ the fact that the phrase makes it seem that the shadows are scared of something‚ and the reader would normally associate shadows with blackness and fear‚ makes the reader feel uneasy and heightens tension. It is almost as if fear is afraid of fear itself. The setting of the
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story written in 1843. This short story is about an unnamed narrator who murders an old man and tries to convince himself and others that he is sane. Because of this narrator and his behavior‚ the reader can conclude that the “Tell-Tale Heart” is being told through a first-person‚ unreliable narrator.
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Passage 1 Electronic Book Readers 1 A new phenomenon is springing up nowadays in railway stations‚ in airport queues and on buses. It is the sight of people engrossed‚ not in a newspaper or paperback novel‚ but rather an electronic book reader (e-reader). Are downloaded e-books a passing fad or are they here to stay? 2 One attraction of e-books is that some of them are free. Others can be downloaded at a much cheaper price than the bookshop price‚ and for avid readers this is an obvious advantage
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and mystery to captivate its audience. These elements of the genre are extremely sensitive to the means of narration because the way the reader is presented with the information directly influences the way in which he interprets the information. It is vital to the success of the genre to foster novel and innovative ways to deliver the story because the readers of detective fiction are always attempting to outsmart the novel and unearth its secrets. Therefore authors must be constantly striving to
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Suspense is a necessity for any story‚ facilitating a reason for readers to continue flipping the pages. A powerful literary device indeed‚ but it is exceptionally hard to master. However‚ noted author Richard Connell is one of the exceptions. In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Connell‚ the nigh palpable conflict between the characters is certainly a key reason to turn the pages. Through the utilization of foreshadowing and foreboding words‚ Connell constructs a rock-solid sense of suspense. From
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A society hooked on TV‚ and police forces that harass and punish independent thinkers‚ all of this in a book that takes the reader for a spin in a chaotic‚ new world. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ the main character‚ Guy Montag‚ starts off politically correct‚ hating books‚ burning them without a twinge of guilt. The reason he burns books is because he is the new type of firefighter‚ where they burns books instead of putting out fires. Also‚ the law enforces the people of the city to never have
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leaves the reader in agreement with him completely. From the very first sentence‚ to his thesis‚ and to the concluding sentence‚ McWhorter keeps the reader asking for more. With his examples‚ analogies‚ and paraphrasing‚ he does a wonderful job appealing to the reader’s intellect. One example that was appealing was the example of his friend reading Hamlet in French and understanding it better than he had in English. This piece of evidence alone automatically reaches out to the reader. It plants
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a lot about themselves‚ which essentially affected the experience of the reader. Through Thurber’s words‚ the reader gets a sense of who he was during his “University Days” by his many stories of the classes he claims he didn’t like. Beller on the other hand‚ reveals himself by his sense of style and description of the different unimportant articles of clothing. Both Beller and Thurber however use anecdotes to draw the reader in so there is a possibility of a connection‚ thus altering the reader’s
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Book by Mortimer J. Adler‚ he tries to persuade the reader that marking up a book is mostly the only way to really take ownership of a book. In Adler’s essay he is very up front to the reader; he doesn’t beat around the bush. Adler makes the reader feel safe and makes them trust what he has to say from the very beginning. Adler explains to the reader that to really read‚ understand‚ and truly take ownership of the material of a book the reader must “read between the lines” and “write between the
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time. However the reader doesn’t find out that Asterion is a Minotaur until the very end of the story. Without this key piece of information the reader cannot view Asterion as a regular person. Another important part of the story that is left out is how his house is labyrinth. This again makes it easier for the reader to think of Asterion as human. By taking a first person point of view it makes it easier for the reader to humanize the Minotaur‚ and at the same time it lets the readers imagination wonder
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