Genre

Write: Part One – Answer the following questions about one of the poems based on your reading of them: • Identify the theme of the poem. How do you know this is the theme? The theme of the poem “We Real Cool” is theirs as a group of boys rebellious with their own actions. I know this is the theme for “We” is repeated eight times in this eight-line poem. • Define the poetic devices (e.g., rhythm, figurative language, etc.) used in the poem. Offer at least two examples. The poetic devices…

Skurzynski’s “Nethergrave” is a superior work of science fiction compared to Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" because it has an important theme, has better charcterization, and is much more original. A Sound of Thunder and Nethergrave fit into the genre of science fiction because the use of futuristic technology to travel to new places is a key element in both plots. A Sound of Thunder features the age old fantasy of time travel and Nethergrave uses a computer to create an interdimensional…

Science fiction is a genre, which deals with unfamiliar concepts most that are scientific theories such as time travel, or human cloning. It is out of convenience that most science fiction novels are set in the future, since this allows the author to take a light notice into realist convections, which naturally would slow down the exploration of the chosen idea. But they are cases that science fiction is not always about advanced technology and space exploration but it explores concepts such as…

assigned with their job. This leads to the purpose of my Genre Advocacy Project; the purpose of the project is to advocate for one of my stakeholders, the employees. My audience will be the job recruiters/boss. I want my project to show how and what job recruiters are looking for in a potential employees. My plan is to create multiple job profiles and to include feedback/comments on the employee profiles to show the process of employee hiring. My genre falls under social media posts, as I…

For second genre is a scholarly article, performing a genre analysis introduces a person to writing within a specific language used by the scholars. Genre analysis of a scholarly journal helps us to ponder the parts of writing that work together in unity and to understand that research is part of an ongoing conversation. There are many other approaches to showing a genre analysis of a scholarly journal, or any genre for that matter. Academic textbooks present the abstract at the beginning of…

In science fiction, there is a special type of genre that primarily seeks to manipulate and mislead the person experiencing the story. These tales, whatever their medium, subtly influence their target to begin thinking about the world depicted in a way that may not be entirely accurate. Of course, stories like these can never be advertised as such; few things take away from a story more than knowing a plot twist is coming and trying to identify it. Books and movies have been working on…

American Literature was shaped in part by the traditions of the Southern Gothic Genre. Southern Gothic literature has many of the same aspects as Gothic literature. It focuses on many topics such as death, madness, and the supernatural in addition to many mystical, violent, and grotesque aspects. Traits of this genre include Race/Class/ Social Structure, Unrequited love, Good Versus Evil, Being an outsider, and Violence. In class, we learned about three important Short stories including…

written can allow the reader to recognize different themes in each of the plays. Hamlet is a tragedy and a the Twelfth Night is a Comedy. Hamlet was set in Denmark while the Twelfth Night was set in the imaginary Dukedom of Illyria. The different genres also lead readers to determine the…

literature that deals with human responses to the levels of science, technology, and artificial intelligence is known as Science Fiction. Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut are two well-known authors whose stories commonly revolve around this literary genre. Simply stated, all science fiction stories contain elements that imply a warning or message for its reader. Within all three of the science fiction related texts, “The Pedestrian,” Fahrenheit 451, and “The Big Trip Up Yonder,” the authors…

In literature, stories in the same genre typically are compatible and comparable. While written in different forms of literature, the novel The Chrysalids and the motion picture The X-Men share indefinite similarities. The science fiction novel written by John Wyndham follows the life of David Strorm the protagonist of the story. David has the ability to communicate telepathically with a select group of children. This ability threatens his life and creates the theme of the inevitability of…