Art genres

In most science fiction, stories are told from the point of view of the most relatable characters. Scrappy human freedom fighters, rebels, and malcontents overthrow the unknowable invaders, aliens, or machine overlords to preserve humanity as they know it. Rarely though, a novel comes along that takes this tradition idea and reverses it, instead relating a narrative from the point of view of the alien. This presents a unique story for readers, and a special challenge for writers. How does one…

Virgin America “Safety Dance” has the appeal of a music number that caters to all ages. From infants to senior citizens Virgin America’s “Safety Dance” can keep their attention with a song that is upbeat and has a changing rhythm. It starts as a pop song and then progresses into small portion of rap in a tasteful manner. Some may say that the song is annoying, and while that may be the case, the point of this video is to get your attention. It will be considered annoying to some but it still…

Introduction How similar can both two poems inevitably get? Differences in poems are everywhere. Hence, it would cause some people to think if I were to say that all poems were similar in some way. To anyone who has read a few poems, that statement is absurd. Even an alliteration found in both poems could act like similarities. Given these points, I will be comparing and contrasting in the next three paragraphs on two uniquely different poems. One poem is, “I've Always Lived Across the Street”…

Every story has a theme. It may not be very prevalent, but it is still there. Themes help characters and the reader learn lessons in clever ways. Most themes can be applied to any time period and to any person. Take the famous story “The Tortoise and the Hare”. The theme of this short story is slow and steady wins the race. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare has many themes scattered throughout the play in very interesting ways. The most prominent universal theme in Romeo and Juliet…

and its stories “are a part of daily life in every culture” (Mays 46). While fiction shares some basic literary elements with poetry, such as imagery, figures of speech, symbolism, and setting, some elements are more closely associated with this genre. For instance, plot and point of view are common elements identified when analyzing fiction for an overall theme. Like the preceding poetic works, Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, John Updike’s “A&P”, and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” each…

Accepting the Passage of Time E.B White’s story “Once More to the Lake” (1941) is an autobiographical essay that accounts of his childhood memory. Every summer his family went to the same lake for vacations. He gives vivid descriptions to paint a clear image in the reader’s mind of how the lake was their favorite camping and fishing place while he was a little boy. White used to visit the lake with his father, but in this story, he takes the position of his father while his son replaces him. The…

The poetry of Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Wroth and Katherine Philips unarguably has similarities in style and theme. All three writers composed poems about love and relationships; and emotion is deeply expressed through their verses. Each author allowed their unique experiences in love and loss to guide their capable pen resulting in a poignant understanding for the reader. Queen Elizabeth, Wroth and Philips express a sense of jaded love in their poetry and make great use of figurative language…

I will be writing a response to the poem “In Black Earth, Wisconsin” by Andrea Musher. I think that this poem is about a family that suffered a loss and they are trying to move on. Topics I will discuss are the feelings this poem brought out in me, things that questioned and puzzled me in this poem, who the speaker is, and what this poem is trying to say. The feelings this poem brought out in me were sad, curious, and scared. I felt sad because in the poem someone passed away. This is sad…

Theme is a message about the whole story that you get from the text. Rudyard Kipling, the creator, gives many examples to why good triumphs over evil is the theme for this fable “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.” Rikki proves that he is the pleasing character in the story because he kills snakes to protect and save his family’s life. While Nagania, Nag, and Karait kill everything just to be dominate. I can see why people might think the theme is love triumphs over all, but I can prove that it’s not with…

Themes are an extremely important component in stories, it is basically the base of the story. The overall purpose of reading a story is because the author has some points to get across. "The theme of a piece of fiction is its view about life and how people behave"(Literature). Each theme focuses on a meaningful aspect in one’s life, something important like morals. Themes also allow all of the readers to have one similar concept, even after they have formed their own opinions. By reading all of…