Writing Style/Technique Essay

utter [his] thoughts” (229). Until this point, the metaphorical insects were intangible, and although Douglass could feel the pain, he was unable to describe the cause of his hardship. In the same way, Douglass’s contrarian ideas are hidden in his writing; a bias against slavery exists but is difficult to pinpoint at first glance. Ironically, as he vividly describes the pain he lived through on a daily basis, Douglass claims the anguish he endures is “unutterable” (230). This word choice serves…

story Lusus Naturae, it is believed that the most effective style elements utilized by the author are the story’s linear timeline, its somber tone/ mood, and its descriptive imagery in the form of literal/ figurative descriptions. These three style elements used by the author allow the reader to stay invested in the story, leaving them constantly The first effective style element used is the linear timeline in Lusus Naturae. This style element allows the reader to comprehend the changes that are…

Poe’s Narrators/ Unreliable Narrators In Edgar Allan Poe’s stories there sometimes tends to be an unreliable narrator in the story. We can see that in his 3 stories “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “That Black Cat”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”. Those stories show characteristics of an unreliable narrator. We can mostly see it in “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Everyone of Poe’s stories has a gruesome and traumatic ending which add on to that insane and unreliable sense. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator is…

makes individuals acknowledge and visualise the respectful act that everyone else does suggesting the old man is no different to others. Lawson has created the struggles individuals face from being isolated with a man’s best friend through visual techniques influencing a responder perception of the of…

J, 2002) Across the several pieces I have analysed I have explored the treatment of vitality and lethargy in regards to city texts, witnessing that upon exploration that although each of the writers I have analysed have chosen to use different techniques and different methods to portray their truest reflection of what they feel lethargy and vitality is in regards to the different locations based upon their own individual experiences each of the writers manages to confirm through their written…

In Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust portrays how human senses are always indirect, and human emotions circulate through the fact. Proust demonstrates this phenomenon various times in his novel, and the indirect sensory experiences and the circulation of emotions are always in correlations with each other. This can be observed from various passages in his novel. When the narrator falls in love with Swann’s daughter Gilberte, he does not love ‘her’ exactly; but loves the Gilberte he himself created (pg.…

Winona Stevenson exemplifies how colonialism negatively impacted Indigenous women in the past, writing that missionaries sought to eliminate Indigenous women’s autonomy, independence, family structures because Indigenous society was not run like the patriarchal European society. (Stevenson, 58-59). The goals of the past unquestionably have implications for the present and the future. From Stevenson's writings, one can see how Indigenous women’s identities would be negatively impacted when the…

However, the speaker of each internal soliloquy is identified in the text by sentences that, for example, include, “said Bernard” or “said Neville” (Woolf, 9). This shows that the soliloquies are a retelling, through the medium of some person that is writing down what the characters have said. This continues throughout the novel until the end where one character, Bernard, takes over the narrative. In doing so, he looks back upon his life and retells various stories through his perspective that…

that was plagued by an abyss of loneliness to represent the enmity and depression felt by the main character. I wrote in a first person narrative to place the reader in Lillias shoes and to evoke pity for her confusion disorientation and despair. My style model is also written in first person narrative for example “I can’t breathe; the wind knocked out of me” the use of the as the first person narrative allows a more powerful way to convey a closer more personal relationship with the reader and…

In “The Bear”, Galway Kinnell employs the setting of wilderness as well as elaborate metaphors and other figurative language to explore the internal relationship, and sometimes struggle, one has between their instinctive and rational inner selves. Kinnell’s use of figurative language to represent natural phenomena in the poem blurs the line between primitive and rational to produce an introspective exploration of the human experience. Kinnel also highlights how man is both one with nature while…