Writing Style/Technique Essay

As time’s clock runs its course, we often find ourselves nostalgic of times that could have been or were. Staring out across an ocean, laughing around a table filled with close friends, or taking a long walk at night humans seek reflection and question if we have proven ourselves worthy. Similar to Walcott in his poem, people begin to reflect when faced with reminders of their past. The magnitude of the narrator’s experience is clearly portrayed in his nostalgic tone and repetition of…

Wordsworth invented a new style of poetry, in which nature and the diction of men expressed throughout the poems In 1798, Wordsworth had a poetry collection called, Lyrical Ballads, which helped the romantic era of English literature grow. Writers in this era were inspired by the…

For my musical ethnography, I was originally going to attend a showing of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, but it ended up being sold out last minute. At that point, I began to worry because that was the only event I had planned to attend. As my worry was starting to progress, I remembered, and also took a quick glance at the types of events we could attend and saw that it said we could attend a religious service. I quickly looked up services in my area for the next day and came across a website…

Retaining Innocence In Tony Hoagland’s poem “Please Don’t,” he personifies nature to fully understand the naïve lives of them and the emotions that go along with them being sheltering. The poem takes place in the springtime when the flowers have all merely bloomed. A narrator, from afar, recounts the descriptive poem to the audience. In the second and third stanza, he talks about the relations between different aspects nature, in this case “about the rain, the fog, the dew” and how, in return,…

Mailer’s word choice steers the reader to visualize Paret as a capable competitor whose fighting style is reflective of his admirable characteristics. The diction’s effect sometimes deviates, but it always moves the reader toward similar conclusions about Paret that Mailer made. Throughout the events of the fight, Mailer never uses negative diction…

the poem, John Updike sneaks examples of literary devices, such as personification, diction, and imagery into his writing. He uses the literary devices to create an abstract view of Flick Webb’s life. Personification is defined as attributing human characteristics to nonhuman objects. Verbs and adjectives can be used to create personification. Updike uses personification when he is writing about the gas station and the pumps there. Updike (1993) writes, “idiot pumps” (p.1) and…

wanted to express a wide range of knowledge, an easier way to have done so would have been to say something like “It used to be more frequently the case that…”, or “Although not as common as it once was, in the time before steam…”. This authoritative style is not the case. In its published form the line lends itself to a reading in which the narrator establishes his authority but also limits it. Melville has immediately brought first and third person narration into…

10), which sounds like he works hard for a living or may have gotten into a fight. To me, this poem is not appealing due to the subject matter. It gives the image of violence and makes the reader feel bad for some of the characters. The literary techniques used in this poem discussed above helped the reader feel as if they were part of the story the poet was telling. Imagery helps the reader picture what is fathers hands looked…

In the short story, It Would be Different If by Maggie Mitchell, the story takes place in Canada in the 80’s. The story is told in a first person narrative, but in an unreliable narration. “I’m trying to figure out what boat you are in,” (Mitchell, 169) as the narrator dwells on a past relationship, readers can get the sense of attachment and obsession for a man that is no longer hers. The main character Nikki, draws out an image of the fantasized life she is living, waiting on Jeff to be…

Whether it’s about a man out for revenge due to an insult from a friend or a mysterious castle on a hill, setting often play an important role in establishing meaning in stories. Setting is the when, where, an action in fiction takes place. While the setting in a story may seem like a simple part of the story, it can in fact have a huge impact on what is going on in the narrative. In “A Pair of Ticket” the setting plays an effective role because it shows the progression of June May learning…