Literary criticism

The Bow of Herakles is a powerful symbol in Sophocles’ Philoctetes. It is used both as a visual and verbal motif throughout the play. Copious references to the Bow convey important themes that ultimately prepares the play’s audience for the events that transpire in the exodos. Some of these points include ___. The significance of the Bow is made evident in the play with several references to the prophecy within which it is invoked. The first of these references was an indirect allusion to the…

Jane Austen wrote her novels as a source for comedy to her readers also so she could be able to express her views on what was around her and what left an impact on her in anyway .Austen is famous for using irony by exaggerating many of her characters to make it obvious how foolish they can be . One of her most famous works Pride and Prejudice ,uses irony to distinguish and judge, critics also believe it to be the most comical . Pride and Prejudice is also the first novel which many critics have…

In Laurie Halse Anderson’s writing of Chains, there are many literary devices that make the reader of the book want to read more, but mostly three of them that make the reader emotionally tie into the historic setting of the book. The three literary devices are foreshadowing, vernacular dialogue, and primary sources. They make the reader relate, smile, and worry about the characters. One example of a literary device in the book Chains, is foreshadowing. Foreshadowing are moments when the…

This story is very interesting but a bit rare. The view point of this story is very different from what some may think. While reading this story I noticed three literary devices being used. This story may contain more than three literary terms but the three I noticed being used were an allegory, allusion, and irony. The first literary device I noticed being used was an allegory. An allegory is a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a…

Analytical Essay Traditions have led to people having a restricted point of view on the use of images in various types of texts (Books, articles, etc.). In Scott McCloud’s graphic essay, From Show and Tell, he discusses how the use of images in a story does not lessen the effect the story has on the reader. He believes when text and image come together the greatest works are made. McCloud makes this claim due to his background of being a comic artist. His profession incorporates the usage of…

theme was the effects the war had on people. The people in the book changed in many different ways because of the war. O’Brien uses literary devices, and literary elements in the Things They Carried to emphasize the effects that the war had on the soldiers. First of all, by expressing how O’Brien and his group of soldiers changed through the war he used many literary devices, such as anaphora. One example of O’Brien using anaphora in his novel is “Forty three years ago, and the war occurred a…

Plot twist: a plot twist is a technique used by authors who try to convey a sudden turn of events. This element is popular in novels, poems, television shows and movies. It can happen in any type of literature since all the literary technique needs to occur is a plot. Here, the plot consists of a man going to a funeral, but in the last sentences, the audience learns he is at his own funeral, which is unexpected. The whole story is built up to be something that the reader thinks it should be,…

Terry Eagleton, in his essay, “What is a Novel?” talks about the various definitions of novel and among one of them points out that novel is the genre which “affirms and is wedded to the common life” (5). However, in comparison to the common and realistic novels, readers as Eagleton mentioned, prefer the “exotic and extravagant” or “monstrous and miraculous” as a contrast to their ordinary lives. Eagleton find these thoughts of the readers to be ironic because although novels are written to…

We all tend to judge people by what we see on the outside occasionally. Either from what they are wearing or how they are going about their days. This is just a small issue in this book that the author uses to make sense of the plot of the story. The details in this story are very specific to what’s happening which makes it very easy to understand the author’s perspective. The author uses an interaction between a blind man and a stressed husband to get the point across you should never assume…

novel there is the constant theme of beauty, and how beauty plays a major role on the lives of those young girls. Beauty, and its many different effects on people's’ lives can be seen through literary devices such as metaphors, imagery, and symbolism. Toni Morrison’s use of metaphors is a recruiting literary device that helps represent beauty and its impact on the novels characters. Beauty, usually seen as a positive concept, is seen as destructive and…