Learning styles

Shooting the Breeze and Shooting an Elephant: Fictional Styling in Orwell’s Essay George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant is a personal essay describing an event that Orwell claims occurred while he was working as a police officer in Burma, a portion of the British Empire. Though the story is presented as a wholly voracious, there are obvious moments wherein Orwell uses his skill as a writer of fiction, perhaps to keep readers more engaged. This essay will explore the elements of Shooting that…

brought forth a harrowing depiction of the realities of war. “The Things They Carried” examined the experiences of those in war. O’Brien portrays the mass confusion and guilt of battle prevalent in Vietnam through sadness and struggle. O’Brien’s writing style is straightforward yet scattered, reflecting the thought processes of those experiencing battle. The author uses a unique blend of language to convey his message, while his characters and themes combine to bring to light the truths of…

emotion we call art-horror” (Carroll 52). According to Carroll art-horror is like an emotion which needs to cause a horrified feeling in audience in response to the fictional monster. Similarly, Gilman makes the horrific style of the story very clear from the beginning. She makes her style obvious when gives…

. What is your initial impression of this work? – I liked this story because it always had me wanting to know what was happening next. The story kept me on the edge of my seat trying predict what would happen next. 2. What is the genre of this selection? – The genre of this excerpt is Science fiction, Martians appear on earth and soon after attacking the people who try to communicate with them. 3. What is the exposition of the story? What is the rising action or actions in this story? What is…

Happy Risks Authors use genres and characters to develop a theme. Sometimes different main characters can be used to build the same theme. In the poem, “the lesson of the moth,” poet Don Marquis uses the main character, a moth, to teach the narrator Archy, a cockroach, what it is like to have a dream worth dying for. Similarly, Daniel Keyes, author of “Flowers for Algernon,” uses the protagonist Charlie Gordon, a mentally challenged person, who longs to be more intelligent, to develop the idea…

Sasha Maharaj has used a personal tone to convey emotions underlying her feelings about relationships in the poem, “Worthless’’. In this essay, I disclose how poetic devices, diction, syntax and other language functions have been utilized to reveal feelings/emotions of the writer in regard to relationships. Taking into account the title of the poem, one cannot put a figure on what or who is worthless. Nevertheless, it is known that worthless is an adjective; meaning something that has no use or…

Audience Engagement in Macbeth Tragedies such as Macbeth have engaged and fascinated audiences for centuries. Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Macbeth depicts the ill-fated journey of Macbeth, a brave and loyal soldier, who murders several innocent people to become King, and is soon after killed himself. The play engages the audience, which is defined as “occupying and maintaining the interest or attention of the audience. Through the use of characterisation, narrative structure and figurative…

World War I gave birth to many stories, and with those stories came many pieces of literature. Some of the main ones include All Quiet on the Western Front, a book by Erich Maria Remarque, “The Poet as Hero”, a poem by Siegfried Sassoon and “Who’s for the Game”, a poem by Jessie Pope. These literary pieces had some key differences. Although Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Sassoon’s “The Poet as Hero”, and Pope’s “Who’s for the Game” all shared their opinions on how soldiers should…

The story Araby written by James Joyce has a very high level of diction. The story is written about a young boys experience, but you could tell that the way that the experience is described that the person narrating is an older man. The authors choice of diction was great because the narrator is speaking of memories that were very important to him, it allows the reader to know more about what was happening. The reader is also able to understand the emotions of the boy better. He uses the amount…

The narrator in the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman narrates her own life. The reader never learns of her name and Perkins-Gilman takes the reader into the innermost thought of a women’s experience. The narration is an important literary element of any story, which lets the reader evaluate whether the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is credible and reliable. The narrator gives the impression that she is credible as the story begins, but as the story progresses…