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Pictures Imagery gives you so much more insight to what the author is trying to say. Without imagery stories would be so much harder to understand. In the poem, “The Boy at the Window,” by, Richard Wilbur, we see many lines of imagery. Wilbur uses imagery to develop his poem by telling us of many different things that we can picture in our minds. In the beginning of the poem the author says, “The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare a night of gnashing’s and enormous moan.” (L3, L4) The…

Karleen Bradford`s “Coffee, Snacks, Worms” foreshadowing, theme, and symbolism are the three most significant elements of fiction that intensify the effectiveness of the short story. Firstly, foreshadowing add tension to the story which makes the reader want to read more to see how it develops. Foreshadowing first introduced in the beginning of the story with the italic font but the conclusion made a huge impact “There, in front of her, stood a dishevelled, disreputable, totally terrifying…

1. The narrator seems to be a young boy that is about ten years old. In the story he says, “the cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed” (Joyce, 322). This sentence in the story makes me guess the narrator’s age because kids that are around the age of ten are the ones always playing outside. During this age parents give their kids some freedom to go play outside with their friends until it gets dark outside. 2. I would characterize the boy’s relationship with the girl as them…

At the beginning, the author briefly explains his situation of buying and selling his cars. The author has the situation that everyone might experience at least once in a lifetime. The ways he describes his car makes the reader feel like cars are their lovely friend, “realizing that the familiar friend would be gone from our lives forever” (Stanley Fish, line 5). The title is a play on words, the author is torn in between a relationship of the cars they traded in and the new cars they got. “The…

Susan Cain’s employment of humor, explanation, and person stories, improve her speech by, conveying her message in a lighthearted, and memorable way. Susan uses humor and irony to make her speech more effective. She does this in a few ways. First, she describes the silly ideas that her nine year old self had of girls at summer camp as, “a vision of 10 girls sitting in a cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns” (Susan Cain, Online). Another representation of this is when Susan…

motivated her to help whoever is in need. Though witnessing the obliteration of Nicaragua’s environment, Hallie made a difference to the residents with her intellect. Her sacrifices and efforts would not be in vain. Despite her incredible feats, readers foreshadow her death from the beginning to the point where she was captured and killed by the…

Malouf uses the characterisation of Jim and Ashley, to present the different experiences war for each individual. He uses omniscient narration to highlight the class difference between Ashley and Jim, in their first meeting as “one was mounted and the other had his two feet set firmly on the earth.” Positioned on horseback, Malouf highlights the status difference between Ashley and Jim. This is also shown when Ashley is given a higher position in war because of his family wealth, “Ashley…

Eugenia Collier, a well known writer used several literary devices such as juxta position, diction, imagery, point of view, and flashback to create the voice of narrator Lizabeth from the short story Marigolds. The point of view the author was trying to express was extremely clear using statements like “Bewilderment of being neither woman or child.”(Collier) to show that the narrator is a teen going through the rough phases that come with coming of age. Quotes of this story, like this one, show…

When the author, Ozment, said, “How skillfully students ultimately swim is not as important as their initial jump into the great pool of the past,” he meant that it is more important to have an initial interest in the subject, rather than force yourself to continue learning, because without interest, the subject would mean nothing if you had no spark or motivation to keep you interested in the subject. Overall, the author meant that it was important to have an initial spark on subject at hand or…

Plutarch about controlling people using fear, while Plutarch makes his plans for the Games. Then, they both work together to think of a way to deal with Katniss and stop the rebellion. This wonderful scene is nowhere to be found in the novel, as the reader never leaves Katniss. Thus, the switch from third person limited to third person omniscient made by Catching Fire was appropriate for the movie, and was certainly entertaining, but took away some of the scenes that gave the novel the mood…