Literary Summary Essay

Gabriel Marquez’s unique choice of diction and literary allusion creates an allegorical portrait of ideas such as love and death. The choice of diction and literary allusion allowed for Marquez to combine realistic historical narration with fantasy thus creating some of the most notorious stories in the genre known as magical realism. In the story “Death Constant Beyond Love”, one can see the how Marquez’s choice of diction and literary allusion allowed for him to create the fantastical…

This paper is a summary response to Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains.” Mr. Carr is an author, which gives him firsthand knowledge on the subject of reading and writing. Carr’s main point is that it [the Internet] seems to be interfering with his and others’ ability to read more lengthy papers. He questioned many acquaintances and other literary professionals, receiving their feedback. According to Carr, excessive use of the Internet…

Loving Husband” and “Upon the Burning of Our House”, and Jonathan Edwards’ sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, readers can understand that there are many differences, but also many similarities in the two’s religious views and use of literary devices. The religious views of Bradstreet and Edwards are somewhat similar, but also differ in many ways.…

Caesar dies, Brutus and Antony give speeches; Brutus reasoning with the mob for why it was morally right to kill Caesar, and Antony opposing him. Antony was more effective in persuading the mob than Brutus because he used figurative language. One literary device that Antony uses is pathos. Pathos appeals to the reader’s emotions to strengthen the writer’s argument. In Antony’s speech he says, “You all loved him once,-not without reason. What reasons keep you, then, from mourning him?”…

From Rotten Tomatoes to Roger Ebert, film reviews are informative literary mediums through which critics analyze a film’s overall quality, with the goal of distinguishing whether or not the film is worth watching. A film review has a typical structure: it is comprised of an introduction that provides basic background information about the film, actors, producers, and directors. It is generally followed by a brief plot summary, film analysis (of themes, film technique, acting, etc.), and a…

the canon of modernism, as well as the budding one of late modernism (and they have kept their place in new modernist studies for good measure). The context of world literature enables us to read Pound, Eliot, and Woolf, and their theorizations of literary space, as modernist precursors to current trends that are attempting to chart the burgeoning realm of global aesthetic flow. Their ideas are a harbinger of things to come; global spaces will (and already have) alter(ed) the way we conceive the…

Milton and William Shakespeare. Before starting to write herself, she developed a respiratory illness and suffered a spinal injury that resulted in her being labeled as an invalid (Brackett). Despite all of her health issues, Barrett lived a full literary life and published her first major collection in 1838 titled The Seraphim and Other Poems. In the following years, Barrett lost her beloved brother, Edward, and the tragedy inspired her to keep writing (“Celebrating English Poets & Poetry”). In…

The use of literary devices is extremely prominent in these novels, if you are not in acknowledgement with literary devices they are “ literary or linguistic techniques that produces a specific effect, especially a figure of speech, narrative, style, or plot mechanism. (Wikipedia) In both of these novels there are various literary elements, the first literary element is irony, which is used quite frequently, for example when Miss Caroline…

which attracted me to the title of this novel. While the list of pre-screened pieces was being dictated, as soon as I heard the title Ordinary People, I had the sudden desire to search it up to find out what the novel is about. After having read a summary of the novel and several reviews on it, I knew that I had to choose this book for my task. What truly interests me about this novel is its subject matter. The novel is about a pair of brothers who were at one time extremely close, but are…

French literary theorist who developed the theory of narrative, which is the telling of a set of events or a story. The most basic terms from narratology are as follows; order, duration, frequency, voice and mood. The narrative of a story is traditionally told in chronological order, as this is a way for the story to be easily understood by its readers. However, by changing the time-frame of the story, the author is also changing their readers ways of reading and understanding the literary…