To Kill a Mockingbird Using literary skills in the right way can have a amazing effect on the quality of a novel. This is proven true in Harper Lee?s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee uses descriptions that appeal to the reader?s sight‚ which helps them to visualize the setting. She uses personification to relate non-human objects in the setting to the reader. Lee uses adjectives that suggest different feelings‚ which help the reader to better understand the setting. Harper Lee uses descriptive
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Writing stories with dark twist and unlucky characters is how Jackson set the mood and tone of the story‚ however she does this with a couple of literary tools such as repeating phrases over and over again. In the story “The Tooth” an example of this is when Clara keeps telling her husband “I feel so funny” [Jackson 207]. By having Clara repeat this throughout the story it is foreshadowing that something bad is going to happen to her. Along with foreshadowing her inevitable bad luck coming her way
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the Fitzgerald family interpret it and death. The bond between the different Fitzgerald children and how their secrets and misfortunes have brought them closer is explored on multiple occasions during the novel. Picoult uses a number of different techniques and features in order to explore these themes including symbolism‚ metaphors and foreshadowing. The plot of the novel focuses on Anna Fitzgerald’s desire to no longer donate various parts of her body to her sister – who suffers from leukaemia and
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Discussion Questions for The Stranger (1946); translated by Matthew Ward‚ 1988. Part One Chapter 1. 1. How does Camus set up Meursault’s personality -- how does Meursault respond to others’ conversation‚ to ordinary social situations‚ and to the death of his mother? 2. On page 10‚ Meursault says that at the viewing of his mother‚ he felt as if the elderly people there were judging him. Offer a conjecture about why he might have had that feeling. (It is worth paying attention to such references to
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The Dead by James Joyce is one of the fifteen stories in the series Dubliners. Through Joyce’s’ use of literally techniques‚ symbolism‚ themes‚ and an epiphany‚ the story has a much deeper meaning. By using these techniques and looking at the story closer you can find how Joyce was trying to provoke a deeper meaning in relation to the dead and living and the main character‚ Gabriel‚ searching for meaning or reason to his life. Paradoxically the story shows that the dead can still be living‚ through
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In this excerpt‚ from A White Heron‚ by Sarah Orne Jewett‚ a number of literary techniques were used. All of them contributing to the excerpt’s excellent flow. This essay will focus on three literary techniques Jewett used "" imagery‚ tone‚ and symbolism. Imagery is an important literary device which‚ when used well‚ can enable an author to convey powerful and persuasive themes. Imagery can also be used to convey the mood of a book in ways that straightforward‚ factual descriptions never could.
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The effectiveness of graphic novels surpasses that of written narratives due to the added illustration‚ easily followed dialogue‚ foreign dialect‚ and its thought-provoking story line. Although graphic novels are frequently considered a form of pleasure reading‚ they are “slowly escaping the stereotype that they are picture books with no value to literacy instruction” (Watts). V for Vendetta managed to preserve the significance of a written narrative in addition to maintaining a fascinating story
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miniscule details and descriptions about this actual occurrence allows the reader to be immersed in the retelling of these events with an omnipresent point of view. His complex writing style and literary techniques contribute to the novel in a compelling and intriguing way. Capote uses a combination of literary techniques to present an almost vivid presentation of the actions associated with the murder. Capote uses a mixture of foreshadowing‚ structure and suspense and irony to retell the story of the Clutter
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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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