Imagery is a technique frequently used by authors in order to promote the theme(s) that they are attempting to convey to the reader through their work. It is the use of figurative language to represent objects, and communicate ideas to the reader so that they may mentally visualize them, and understand themes in the work of literature. Generally speaking in literature, the reader may only recognize or relate to a few of the themes that the author is portraying through contrasting imagery, but to the author, all of the themes may be of importance. In The Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez conveys many themes through the use of imagery, including sacrifice, feminism and religion. Alvarez uses contrasting imagery to develop the story’s theme…
Have you ever had a friend that gave things to you in return? An example, you would care for them and they would share the same emotion toward you. People would call that a win win relationship because two people would share the same emotion, mental, and physical. A win win relationship would be between two people that benefit each other in any situation. Some examples of win win relationships were George and Lennie, Max and Kevin, and Mitch and Morrie.…
Although the novel “Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem” by Rosalyn Schanzer is an informational text, it exhibits numerous qualities which can be found in literary works. First of all, a characteristic that sets this novel apart from most informational texts is its theme, which is the moral or lesson of the story. A theme is crucial to a literary work because it demonstrates a piece of knowledge that should be acquired after reading the story. Informational texts do not customarily contain themes, for they are written for the sole purpose of presenting information to the reader.…
In the short story “Miss Brill” the author, Katherine Mansfield, conveys that the main character is not in touch with reality, this is evident because her tone is very positive throughout the duration of the story but later when she finds out her life isn’t what she thought she became very despondent. This shows that the theme of this story is that to things aren’t always as they may seem. Another literary device the author uses is imagery. This helps develop the theme because where and when this story takes place is very important. It is so important because if the day wasn’t so chilly she probably would not have worn her coat and those teenagers would have never made a comment about how ratty her fur was and would have never made the realization…
Lessons In Love You should really get to know your crush before you act like someone you’re not, because it may come back to haunt you in the future. According to “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”, a country boy has grown a slight crush on the city girl next door, yet with him being a few years younger, he can’t help but to eye her from afar and gape at her beauty. In comparison with the other by the name of “Lessons of Love”, a girl has fallen for a boy who she thought would never notice someone like her. The two are very much alike you see, because the girl herself in the second short story, “Lessons of Love”, is a freshman from what she had informed the audience. In the first short story, “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” , the…
“The Story of an Hour,” “The Ledge,” and “The Crucible” all feature female characters who are faced with difficult internal challenges. In “The Story of an Hour,” we have Mrs. Mallard who yearns for freedom but cannot grasp it. In “The Ledge,” the fisherman’s wife often wonders what it would be like if she found another lover. Finally, in “The Crucible,” we have Abigail Williams who is in love with a married man who doesn’t want her. These three characters possess different traits and personalities, but what makes them similar is that they all seek the answer to the same question: what if?…
The short story “The Doll”, by Charles Waddell Chesnutt was a rich story that incorporated keys themes that was important in the era of published, the Reconstruction period. After the Civil War, the slaves were emancipated from the chains that kept that were wrap around their lives, but were still in chains of oppression, prejudice, and death. Equality was something not obtainable for the free blacks! Equality was something that some keys leaders during this period such as Booker T. Washington did not want the blacks to mindlessly try to obtain. “Cast down your buckets where you are,” was an influential quote from Washington, urging the blacks to stay in the racially south and endure the prejudice.…
Literary Devices In the three short stories The Lottery, The Yellow Wallpaper, and A Rose for Emily, the stories take place during different times and have hardly any plot similarities. All three authors of these stories used literary devices; we will look at how they use these literary devices in each store. In the story The Lottery the author uses foreshadowing and The Yellow Wallpaper imagery and in A Rose for Emily metaphors.…
Imagery Kingsolver's lyricism transforms the entire novel with her use of imagery. She appeals the reader by creating scenarios where she applies to the five senses. Doing so, writing about the scenes and characters helps to add to the novel. The imagery that she uses in her prose are as picturesque as the imagery found in poetry which makes use of figurative language to produce a lyrical and colorful novel.…
Miss Brill’s Fantasy vs. Reality In Katherine Mansfield’s short story “Miss Brill” (rpt. In Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp. Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2015] 155-158), the protagonist, Miss Brill, lives a very lonesome life.…
Most individuals enter a marriage with certain expectations; they expect to be loved, cared for, cherished and above all, respected. However, this is not always the case. Marriage can quickly transform from a wonderful holy union to a dangerous and oppressive force. In Sandra Cisneros’ “Women Hollering Creek,” and Kate Chopin’s “The Story Of An Hour,” we are told the story of two women whose expectations of marriage failed in comparison to their reality, as well as how drastically this influenced their mental stability and actions during and after their marriage. The stories express how all marriages, even the kindest unions, may be inherently oppressive.…
It Follows In the opening credits of “It Follows” the movie seems to have a very suspenseful meaning towards it. As the young lady sketched out of her home, running quickly in heels, and eventually returning to the home to get her items was unusual for any human-being to say, “They’re okay”. It seems as her father tried to figure out her thoughts and problems, but she was not letting not a soul figure her out. As she rushed away from her home, she watched all her surroundings in her car and did not answer not one ring of her phone.…
He has used imagery to allow the reader envision what he saw. The sensory detail makes the reader “lose themselves” in the story as if it were real, something that can only be accomplished when being fictionalized. The figurative language expresses emotions. Words can only classify emotions. However they are unfathomable and can only be expressed through “exaggerations”.…
Using the plot structure codified by Aristotle as a lens through which is applied to all dramatic works, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House follows Aristotle’s plot organization particularly well. What makes a story interesting is based on when the protagonist is presented with a problem and ultimately how he decides to spend the rest of the novel trying to solve the dilemma. The two conflicts emerge early on in the play during the rising action when Nora first has a conversation with Mrs. Linde and Krogstad’s blackmailing of Nora.…
A short story is brief but has to contain meaningful story to make readers interested. Even if a story has mass of ideas or has a good and long structures, people will not focus on reading and start quitting reading if it is too complicated. Also, a story affects totality. Totality can define unity. So, a short story unifies ideas by holding each person’s single emotion.…