Word play is a method of writing designed to retain the reader 's interest. Alliteration and the use of puns are two examples of a play on words. Scieszka uses alliteration in the phrases “group puke horror” and “puke-covered cat”. By using words that rhyme, the author keeps the reader laughing. The thematic message that is displayed throughout the story is clearly highlighted through the examples.
Including literary devices such as irony and sarcasm that boost the humanistic qualities that Shyashyakook possesses, one can discern that the town is a personification of a human overcoming the inescapable obstacles of life. In a
In order to convey a message author sometimes breaks away from the traditional way of portraying a protagonist. They do this to maybe go against other books written within the same genre or to make them stand out. Some books that have exhibited this characteristic are; Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and the fairy tale The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. In each of these stories, the author creates a protagonist that goes against the norms of the genre.
Literature is greatly influenced by the ideals and background of the writer, in which the appeal of the piece may vary depending on the reader. Having a creative and visual mind, the Indian folk tale When Grizzlies Walked Upright intrigued me. The tale uses descriptive words to describe the scenes which create a clear picture in the reader’s mind. Already setting the tone for the entire story in the first paragraph, the writer says, “...the air was
Date TMA received: Date returned: TUTOR’S REMARKS: Content Language and Organization Earned Mark EL121: The Short Story and Essay Writing TMA: Fall Semester 2015 - 2016 The ending of every short story represent a great significance for the short story itself.
“The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson” and “Abuelito Who” compare and contrast Literary Analysis’ Almost every folk tale and poem express a universal theme or central idea, which are found in “The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson” and “Abuelito Who.” The two literary works share the writing attributes of characters and the message that the readers receive from the passage, but , they are both categorized under two different genres. The reason why the characters in “The Old Grandfather and his Little Grandson” and “Abuelito Who” are extremely similar is because they both are described with identical characters. Also, their universal themes happen to disseminate the exact same moral, while the authors wrote them in two dissimilar writing styles.
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is an allegory for the nature of humans to react to others’ strangeness differently. Because short stories provide little time for complex character development, main characters
Folktales have been told for generations and are part of many cultures. Parents use them to teach a moral, to give a lesson to their children and to entertain them with a good story. The original folktales have been censored for the pleasure of the public while still keeping the moral. From “The Little Riding Hood” to “Rapunzel”, folktales all share common traits and structures which can easily be seen throughout their stories. Similarly, the writer of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, Joyce Carol Oates uses many elements commonly known folktales to develop her story, using their characteristics to create connections with the readers’ past knowledge from folktales.
In the essay, “The Entomology of Village Life,” Robert Minto centers on narrative writing about his learning experience. Minto uses action by building suspense to his readers as he visits the cemetery with a friend. The characters are presented in this essay by using dialogue. Conversation occurs in the essay when two characters talk about spirits, they go on an adventure to listen to spirits when the sun goes down. Tension builds as they hear an unexpected moaning sound and move toward it.
Ascher begins her essay with two juxtaposing narrative anecdotes, both intended to engage the audience. The first introduces a man crossing the streets of New York and describes, without directly relating that he is one of the homeless; “his buttonless shirt, with one sleeve missing, [that] hangs outside the waist of his baggy trousers” (195) implies that he is
There Is More Than One Type of Hero In “Notes from the Underground”, a fiction book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the Underground Man is not like the traditional main character in most other fiction books. Often books have a tragic hero where he or she either saves the days or unfortunately is killed. But that is not the case for this book, the main character shows characteristics that do not fit along the lines of a tragic hero at all. This paper argues that the Underground Man is most definitely not the tragic hero, but instead an anti-hero.
Angela Carter, the author of the collection of short stories The Bloody Chamber was an English novelist, journalist and short story writer. The Bloody Chamber, published in 1979, is one of Carter’s most popular short story collections (Carter 1). The collection consists of ten stories including "The Bloody Chamber". All stories are rewritings of fairy tales and folktales. This paper will firstly offer a narratological analysis of the short story “The Bloody Chamber” while in the second part the short story will be analysed from a feminist perspective.
This is a key point in understanding the narrator’s character and the overall meaning of the
The authors want their audiences to use these tales and examples as life lessons and hope for them to utilize these sources in their future lives. These two ideas are presented through the use of figurative language, mainly metaphors. In addition, the similar tone of these pieces allows the author to connect more deeply with the readers. Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture, folktales, and several poems illustrate how metaphors and tone are used to describe experience and caution the readers.
The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story to become the only story (Adichie:2009). In the speech with the same name, Adichie questions the ideas such as the potential of a single narrative to create stereotypes. Also, how the importance of bringing different several stories of representation to inform about the urgency of the search for knowledge, about the proper understanding of the 'other ' cultures not only about the West and European culture and literature.
