Sei Shōnagon’s Personality and Time There are two ways of which an author could write a novel. Depending on the chosen way of writing an author will either use tone in the text of the book to add their character. Or, the incorporation of their nature into that of the setting of the story. In the case of Sei Shōnagon she develops her whiney disposition by using tone in the written text; and of using the setting of the Heian period of Japan in The Pillow Book.…
“How to Talk to Girls at Parties” is a short story written fiction-fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. The story follows two young teens as they attend a foreign party without any awareness of the strangeness of the people there. The story paints a picture of a young man beginning his transition into adulthood and attempting to learn how acquire the things he now lusts for. I will be using two forms of literary criticism to dissect the work of literature, Modern Formalism and Psychoanalytical Criticism, in hopes of establishing the depth reached by Psychoanalyzing texts as the superior of the two. Formalism is a form of literary criticism that looks to evaluate a piece based on the content, form, and execution.…
I can determine the author's style in the book, In November. The style is serious. I know this because in the story all the author does is keeps a serious style. The author, Cynthia Rylant, gives good facts on why November is good and what happens in November. Cynthia used really good figurative such as: personification, simile, alliteration, and…
Joseph Hillstrom King was born on the 4th of June, 1972 in Hermon, Maine. He has elected to go by the pen name Joe Hill and has released all his books under this alias. Hill writes horror and gothic fiction with all of his novels fitting into this category. His most prominent works are: Heart-shaped box, Horns, and NOS4A2. Joe was given worldwide recognition for Horns which was released in 2010 with it being made into a cinematic movie in 2013, starring Daniel Radcliffe in the lead role.…
After reading about Donald M. Murray I have come to the conclusion that I do agree with him about how all writing is personal. The reason I feel that all writing is or should be personal is because not everything that you write is just based off of you academics integrity. When I write it is usually personal rather than academic because I tend you to use the words “I” and “my” all the time. As to writing academic papers and essays it tends to be a lot harder for me as a writing to not include those words because of those words frequently.…
Susan Shaw Style Style is a big element that makes up a story, but every author has there own special style that make up their novels . Susan Shaw shows her own unique style of writing in her two books Tunnel Vision and The Boy From the Basement. Shaw uses imagery, mood, and syntax to make up her particular style. The first style element Shaw portrays in her two novels is imagery, which she uses to help create a visual description to go along with the reading.…
Harper Lee authorizes a concise and presentably simplistic writing style, short and choppy sentence structure; a great percentage of the novel is written through to use of dialogue – speech in the form of a conversation amongst two or more people. Harper is keen to include vivid description and extensive vocabulary that depicts the emotions, attitudes, and feelings that the character may have. How a character utilizes dialogue expresses their impact and impression throughout the story. Each character has a unique inflection of voice that sets them apart from the others; Harper Lee applies this concept to her characters; even the minoring ones. Through the use of varying dialects, references and expressions, it simulates both the era/setting…
While Ripley is contemplating or executing violent or dangerous actions, Highsmith uses language style choices such as wording, sentence structure, detail, and figurative language to make his thoughts seem rational and sympathetic. The text state’s “He had offered Dickie friendship, companionship, and respect, everything he had to offer, and Dickie had replied with ingratitude and now hostility.” (Pg. 95). This quote illustrates Highsmith using sentence structure to make Ripley’s thoughts seem rational.…
Richard soon realized that he had many disadvantages due to the time period, which was the mid 1900’s, but gained social consciousness and was able to discover a few methods to overcome these setbacks. People that had been around richard were beginning to notice a difference in his grammar and his behavior. He started to become a little more conscious to this change knowing that if any white man or woman were to find out he had been reading or attempting to write that he would have been prosecuted. At a fixed mindset, richard had a desire to learn how to write and although he had the knowledge to do so he couldn’t find the willpower or faith in himself to put the thought into action. “I discovered that more than desire and feeling were necessary to write and I dropped the idea ( Wright 4 ).…
Throughout history, authors have been using dialects of different peoples to illuminate principles and themes. By using these dialects, authors are able to create realistic elements and accurately represent time periods and societies. Mark Twain uses dialect and dialogue to create his characters and to add aspects of verisimilitude to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain uses dialect to enhance Huckleberry Finn in many unique ways.…
When an author tells a story, they use writing styles to bring out the theme and make the story alive. The writing styles Mark Twain uses are sentence structure, pace, vocabulary, figures of speech, dialogue, tone and paragraph structure. He uses these writing styles in the successful short stories “Luck” and “A Trial. Mark Twain, however did not use these writing styles specifically to support the theme. He used the writing styles the same way in each story regardless of the theme.…
Many forms of spoken English are not always acceptable in written English and the opposite is also true. The only time that spoken English would be acceptable in the written form is when the writer is writing dialog. For example, sentence fragments are used frequently in conversations and are perfectly acceptable to use when writing dialog, but not in formal writing (Clark). In written English, it is best to avoid slang such as awesome or common expressions such as really (Really?)…
Personal Theory of Writing: Revised Writing is a very unique experience, the very thought of our voice expressed in writing moves us in ways we never dreamed of before. Today we see writing almost everywhere, we see it on books, covers, signs and printed in different languages.…
Social commentary is problems in society. All of these elements of style helped them write all of their amazing stories. Whitewashing the Fence- Mark Twain has a very unique writing style.…
There are various stylistic devises that perform different functions in the written or spoken texts; however all of them influence readers’ subconsciousness on one or other level, creating colourful images and new views on the particular subject. From this traditional approach to the definition of metaphor we can conclude that metaphor expresses the unfamiliar through the familiar. Metaphors are used in order to create an emotional response in the target audience, to show obvious things from entirely different perspective. However, two famous linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in their work Metaphors We Live By published in 1980 introduced an entirely new approach to the idea of metaphor comprehension.…