Have you ever wondered how lightning bugs of fireflies light up? They do it by chemical reactions take place, energy is either absorbed or released. In certain special cases energy can be released, or emitted, as light. The author of Marigold, Eugenia Collier has a voice in her writing. Even so her characters in the story have a limited vocabulary she is still able to very descriptive and strong words.
Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel, Fever 1793 takes place in colonial Philadelphia, during the time of the yellow fever outbreak. Mattie Cook, a young girl during the outbreak has to cope with the many hardships brought onto her by the disease. While the fever brought many terrible things to Mattie and her family, she is able to move past them and build her life up again. By using character development and figurative language, Anderson is able to create the theme that good things can always come out of something bad. The theme that prevails throughout the novel Fever 1793 is that good things can always come out of something bad.
Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, author of the article, “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum”, conducted an experiment that followed one student over a twenty-one month period, through three separate college classes to record his behavioral changes in response to each of the class’s differences in their writing expectations. The purpose was to provide both student and professor a better understanding of the difficulties a student faces while adjusting to the different social and academic settings of each class. McCarthy chose to enter her study without any sort of hypothesis, therefore allowing herself an opportunity to better understand how each writing assignment related to the class specifically and “what
Alexandra Fox and Marcus Sedgwick's The Foreshadowing possesses the gift of seeing the future because it creates an ability to change one's perspective on life and cheat death which is saving lives. A story with a different meaning that seeing into the future as a gift and can be found when one looks deep at the text. Marcus Sedgwick’s The Foreshadowing adapts the concept of the Cassandra syndrome while in World War 1. The protagonist Alexandra faces the struggles of seeing into the future but not how one would expect she sees how one dies.
Age: the length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed. In the short story“Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros. Talks about Rachel the main character on here eleventh birthday. Cisneros uses this to her advantage to characterize using details, specific language, and figurative language to explain her day.
"In the “autumn of 1971” Don McLean's melancholic American Pie entered the collective consciousness, and over thirty years later remains one of the most discussed, dissected and debated songs that popular music has ever produced (McLean; Morgan, "What Do American Pie's Lyrics Mean?"). A cultural event at the peak of its popularity in “1972, it reached the top of the Billboard 100 charts in a matter of weeks, selling more than 3 million copies;” and at eight and a half minutes long, this was no normal accomplishment (Morgan, "What Do American Pie's Lyrics Mean?"). The song that travels through different times uses literal devices to intensify its meaning it does this by alluding to specific moments in time. As the “1960s end, we find the Don McLean nostalgic for the music of his youth and the simple, joyous spirit it once brought him” (Morgan, "What Do American Pie's
"The Race" by Sharon Olds uses a myriad of literary devices that all connect the tone of anxiety. The poem also introduces two central themes such as discontent and persistence as a result of figurative language. Through series of repetition such as "... flight was cancelled..." or "... I ..." and any other verb that shows how this girl is hustling, the author emphasizes a rushed environment and how anxiety and tension are pulsating. Since the start of the poem, there has been a consistent amount of I's followed by an action verb that illuminated the airport rush and how time was not on her side. Next, with the support of enjambment, diction, and poor sentence structure, the author uses many run-on sentences to focus on the intensity
Science has proven that reading can provoke positive changes in us as human beings. Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the article ‘Your Brain on Fiction’ published on March 17, 2012. Annie explains how researchers have discovered that reading can initiate different parts of the brain, this is the reason why sometimes literature can make the reader so engaged and attached to a piece of writing. Research also explains how reading has the ability to produce activity in our brain’s motor cortex. Finally, Annie explains how reading fictional pieces can change how you interact with other individuals.
In the poem, On Turning Ten by Billy Collins, the poem describes what turning ten feels like. Using literary devices including tone and imagery, Collins conveys the speaker's attitude of being double digits. Illuminating the theme of losing innocence and coming of age. It also includes the mixture of a child’s imagination as well as their mind.
Poetry is an important part of literature which conveys an author 's ideas across to the reader through the use of descriptive language. Poetry helps an author to express their inner emotions and often incorporates various poetic devices which enriches the text. Poetry gives the reader a different perspective and when read closely, can give the audience a look into the authors imagination. Likewise, poetic devices enhance the writing and can drastically change the mood of the poem, as well as, how the reader interprets the poem. Poetic devices are important in literature because they help to convey a message, add spontaneity to a poem, and give the reader a strong visual.
Most people can tell how people act, but do they really know the struggle they are facing? In the story “Eleven” Rachel was having a hard time showing who she really was and she also went through many emotional changes in her eleventh birthday. In the story Eleven we learn birthdays are very special, but they do not represent emotional changes through the author’s use of simile, symbolism, and imagery. In this interesting story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros use simile, and symbolism to state, birthday are very special, but they do not represent your emotional changes.
The Rebellious Daughter: Analyzing the Theme of Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” The story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan explores the deep familial emotions between a mother and her daughter. Jing-Mei’s mother had left China to come to America after losing her family, and had been raising Jing-Mei in America with her second husband. Despite her mother’s grand hopes for Jing-Mei to become successful in America by becoming a child prodigy, Jing-Mei did not share the same opinions.
Sandra Cisneros’ short story “Eleven”, poem “My Wicked Wicked Ways”, and book The House on Mango Street have many similarities and differences in terms of style, tone, theme, character and setting. In the short story “Eleven”, Sandra Cisneros manages to convey a powerful message about growing up from the perspective of an eleven year old. The story starts out with Rachel, the protagonist, who is turning eleven today. It starts out with her at school while she's in math class.
Holes: Analysis Paper The novel Holes is an award-winning novel that can be read by many different age groups and still be able to get something out of it. Whether it’s a lesson or if it 's just for entertainment purposes. This literature will be analyzed from the content and not its style. By simply using the literary tools such as the critical element and rhetorical devices.
18th century Europe, otherwise known as the “Enlightenment Period,” was another period of history that--after promptly succeeding the Renaissance--unleashed a new swathe of artistry onto the world. Writers of this time period focused on the ideas of “human existence” in abstract. They were often harsh critics, which really did well to set a precedent of writers to come. Many of these criticisms came in the form of poetry, thinly-veneered satire, and comic novellas that shone a light on these concepts with their interesting perspectives. Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Man,” and Miguel de Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” are all great examples of pieces of writing introduced at the time.
