Cognitive style

Style, Technique, and Structure in Paradise of the Blind Often in novels the author 's use of style, technique, and structure create a greater meaning in the novel. In Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong, uses these things in tandem to emphasize Hang’s journey to find her own individual purpose. Flashbacks to family situations and traditional events, the contrast in setting between Russia and Hanoi, and the use of a circular writing, symbols, and setting, Huong establishes the theme that…

Memory and Narrative in Proust’s, Joyce’s, and Woolf’s Novels Memory is important to Modernism, because of its relationship to the past. By using experimental form, modernists were able to reach a deeper level of understanding of the views, ideals, and thoughts they espoused. Three works that exemplify the exploratory form are In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, and The Waves by Virginia Woolf. In charting the formation of an artist,…

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…

In today’s society, money is the number one concern for most people. This comes with good reason. William Hazlitt, a nineteenth-century author, writes about the relationship between humans and money in his text “On the Want of Money.” Hazlitt acknowledges that money is a necessity to get by in life. His overall purpose is to show how money determines the quality of one’s life. One who is constantly troubled by not having enough money is certainly less comfortable compared to someone who has a…

Many times when reading two different literary pieces, a reader is able to notice similarities and differences between the stories. In “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, this assumption proves true. Although they’re two completely different stories with varying themes and purposes, the two pieces do contain similar traits that are necessary to understand the author’s intentions; specifically, both authors decided to purposefully utilize a…

Jeffers uses a paradoxical style in his poem “Fire on the Hills” to decipher free will as an unreal idea where fate truly controls one's destiny. Whereas Henley uses a more euphonic rhythm to his dark imagery and metaphor to express the idea of fate being more of an obstacle in life…

Allison Krug Prof. Irving 1 May 2017 Figures of Speech in To a Wasp and The Writer Figures of speech are a commonly used type of literary device. They bring a story to life and give it that extra "spark" to enhance its meaning, opening new layers. Another use is to help the reader to better clarify the material and give emphasis on what they have read. The poems To a Wasp and The Writer, provide vivid and powerful examples of similes and metaphors, which literally “build” the poems. This…

The idea of loss is prevalent in both “Stop all the Clocks” by W.H Auden and “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath. Auden employs the narrative voice of a distraught partner to reveal the travesty of death and the consuming emotions which accompany the devastation of physical a loss, whereas, Plath depicts the symbolic loss of identity through the inevitable process of ageing as told from the narration of a mirror. The initial stanza of Auden’s “Stop all the Clocks” introduces the idea of loss by allowing…

In the short story “White Trash Primer”, by Lacy M. Johnson, a young woman undergoes drastic changes and hardships throughout her life. The literary technique used in this story is primarily voice. The story is told in a unique point of view as it allows the reader to go through the hardships that the narrator is going through. Rather than using first person or third person, she uses second person point of view. This type of literary technique allows the readers to vividly see through the lens…