Cognitive style

Should mere suggestion prove insufficient, Frost can send a surge of energy into the mind of another person, overwhelming their body with her consciousness and allowing her to take possession of their faculties for a limited amount of time while leaving her own unattended. Frost can 'suggest' to any amount of minds within a certain radius of herself--generally 60 miles--though such a feat can and will become taxing. Mere mental manipulations are not the full extent of Emma Frost's abilities,…

The sentence, “When I was a child / I played by myself in a / corner of the schoolyard / all alone” forms the first stanza of the poem (1-4). This drawn-out style of writing elongates the speaker’s uncomfortable and painful childhood, evoking sympathy from the reader. On the other hand, while describing his life now, the speaker changes his style of writing and instead uses short and concise sentences. The last stanza, “And here I am, the / center of all beauty! / writing these poems! /…

Chbosky uses so many styles of narrative intentionally as it highlights the realities of growing up in that everything seems to be coming at you in full force all at once and it solidifies Charlie as a complex and unreliable narrator in his own story both in flashbacks and in…

The chapter excerpt from Improving Your Storytelling centralizes on the idea of a useful technique to develop a story character by physically embodying and mimicking the character. When becoming your story’s character, there is much more that can be enacted than their physical attributes. Their actions and demeanor are two important contributors to their character, however, there is also the unconsciously acted upon internal sensations. These include the way in which the individual is posed, the…

action against injustice and inequality in legal systems. He particularly focuses on injustices in America during the 1960’s and this is how “I Have a Dream” develops. King uses a unique style of diction in his speech such as archetypal similes/metaphors, terminology, vocabulary and tone. Incorporating his own style of diction makes his speech affective and powerful. Through analyzing King’s diction one can start to understand the significance it plays within the speech. Throughout the speech,…

consciousness. For those of us “who missed [our] mandatory two seconds of Dominican history”, Díaz engages with various narratives about what it means for displaced Dominicans to inherit an American identity. Díaz’s constant engagement in multiple styles of writing, genres, and narrative perspectives is essential to the thematic representation of the multiplicity of diaspora. This paper will discuss Díaz’s inclusion of multiple languages, intertextuality, popular culture references, fragmented…

Skloot makes sure that none of the events shown in her book are her portrayals of each character. Their words are not interpreted or altered in any way and the voice of each character is raw and direct from the source. The characters are developed in two ways. From a third person point of view in which she describes the Lacks family’s past or by the direct dialogue between Skloot and the Lacks family. Also, the main rhetorical device to keep the rule of “show, don’t tell” is diction of the…

Salinger shows his attentiveness toward the rhythms of speech by using italics quite frequently in order to let the reader know when a character is placing emphasis on a word, or even on just a syllable, in dialogue. The emphasis of a single syllable shows a realism to the dialogue of The Catcher in the Rye rarely seen not only in the works of Salinger?s time, but also before and after it. Salinger?s emphasis on the rhythm of speech is mirrored in his emphasis on the rhythm of thought, which, in…

novels, The Catcher in the Rye and Their Eyes Were Watching God, follow a noticeable pattern involving dialect, writing style, and theme. The novels address a clear theme of sexuality in two growing characters, as they explain their stories and lives throughout the course of the book’s journey. Both books take a very serious and stylistic approach to the topics of dialect and writing style. It is noticeable in the first few pages of both that the authors have clear intentions of creating a novel…

The reality, or not, of a setting contributes to the style. In Mist and Saint Manuel, Martyr, Unamuno blends the real and the mythical into his settings. While the specific setting of Mist is little-described, Augusto describes his life as a “mist” in a “nebulous” world (Mist 33). Meanwhile, the town of Valverde…