A Common Reader

Washington Irvine is a very well-known descriptive author when it comes to short exaggerated tales. His stories appeal to a broad range of audience relying on the main common factors of bringing his stories in the tone of the past with a detailed form of intriguing excitement to keep the reader hooked all throughout the sequential event alignment set on his mythological tales. Characters are found to be exaggerated in terms of the mythology genre he is representing with interesting story lines…

key concept in fairy tales acts passively; the reader understands and internalizes magic’s presence in the story. This is the core of the technique’s effect. For example, Neil Gaiman’s Coraline features a door to another world in an ordinary doorway. The doorway, bricked up in the past, opens again to allow Coraline to stumble into a mysterious realm that looks suspiciously off from her natural home. The reader does not question this doorway. The reader instead worries further on, suspicious…

science fiction entertains the reader by recreating an imagined world separate from our own. However, science fiction includes these alternative realities to gain deeper insights into human nature. Humankind’s response to “cognitive estrangement” in the form of change and the “Other” reflect our society’s norms and values. Science fiction explores contrasting views of common preconceptions towards social constructs, such as gender, freedom, and race. By exposing readers to alternative worlds,…

emotion since ancient times • Homer has characters describe other characters as having “a heart of iron” to mean that that character is hard-hearted or tough-minded • All great writers use the heart as a center of emotion • Writers use it because readers feel emotion in their hearts • Writers can use heart ailments as a way to show a character’s problems such as loneliness, cruelty, disloyalty, cowardice, or bad love • Heart ailments are also used as social metaphors (not as often as above) •…

first person are advantageous because it allows the reader to get a closer look at the main character as a whole. This makes the information provided in the story valid for the character that is being focused on. The story, “Legless Joe Versus Black Robe” from the book Born with A Tooth by Joseph Boyden, helps demonstrate this analogy because the reader is able to read the story and see things from an indigenous perspective. This allows the reader to intrude on the main character’s thoughts,…

Comparative Literary Analysis The Text A study In Scarlet and the text A Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle deal with the main idea of suspense. Both books are built upon the basis of anticipation and do a great job keeping the reader guessing to what has to come. The three primary methods of creating suspense used by the author are foreshadowing,characterization, and imagery. This paper will show that the author creates suspense by utilizing foreshadowing,characterization, and imagery.…

prominence to the fixation of technology in his community. Multiple times Simic helps the reader revisualize his personal essay by using analogies. Throughout the essay he uses phrases like “we sit with our heads bowed as if trying to summon spirits”, and “we are only puppets jerked this way by whatever device we think we are operating”(Simic 375;376). Charles Simic uses analogies in order to assist the reader in taking a third person look at themselves, and truly acknowledging what effect these…

Is banning a book ever the right choice? According to James Bryce, a British historian, he says, “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it”. Many literary classics are being challenged because of their content and word choices despite the valuable lessons that can be learned and discussed while and after reading them. An example of one of these controversial books is A Streetcar Named Desire. Written by Tennessee Williams, this American playwright follows the…

Both articles use rhetorical strategies to convey the purpose of their article to the reader. Charles Murray uses interesting anecdotes, understandable logical reasoning, and relevant statistics to facilitate his non-traditional ideas clearly to the reader. On the other hand, through the use of credibility Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill uses assertions, logical reasoning, and statistics to educate the readers, however, the unintentional result is a paper with tone and word choice that is…

It is often believed that flying to a destination is more dangerous than driving. Similarly, it is often believed that murder is more common than suicide. And while these are held as apparent truths for much of the population, these are actually false assumptions. In actuality, there are multiple fatal car crashes every week and there are twice as many suicide deaths per year than there are murders. (Curtis) These are known to psychologists as availability heuristics or our mental shortcuts to…