The Reader

narration, cause and effect, comparison and contrast and exemplification, Hitchens told us in a story like form the journey of losing his voice. Authors choose certain methods to use in their writing because each method has a different effect on the reader. One of the methods Hitchens used were quotes to help portray what he is feeling through words of other authors. He starts this passage with a quote from T.S. Eliot stating, “ ‘I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen…

Capturing Readers through Rhetoric The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien holds a collection of fictitious stories that detail the seemingly endless extent of suffering and destruction that soldiers must endure while tangled up in the chaotic corporeality that is war. O’Brien effectively makes these fabricated stories reach out to the reader and ensnare their senses, relating the readers to the novel even if they do not have firsthand experiences with war. He captures the reader by using a…

In both "To live in the Borderlands means you. . .", by Gloria Anzaldua, and "Crying poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca the authors use various unique stylistic techniques and figures of speech to not just tell the reader of their past, but to paint a picture of the circumstances they faced when growing and how they have affected them. In "Crying Poem", Baca uses the structure of his poem and various stylistic techniques to reflect the frustration and internal conflict he has faced having to "grow…

Let us say that there is an autistic reader and they know exactly what Christopher is going through. There would be no blockage between the autistic reader compared to the reader who does not have autism. People are not exposed to the study of autism because it seems that people reject people with autism because they are much different than “normal” people…

One of the literary methods Doyle uses is personification. "He looked like cucumber on steroids." (Doyle). Writers use personification to trigger the emotions of the reader. It also makes sentences additionally fascinating. It allows the reader to connect to the author on a more personal level. The example I utilized gives the reader a decent example on how healthy and normal Doyle's son is despite the fact that his condition is extreme. Doyle also…

Funeral, in my Brain” This piece of literature in a sense could be terrifying for the reader, due to the extreme down to detail madness described by the speaker. Just by reading the title one could assume a dark and sinister piece of work is about to be read, and Emily Dickinson did just that. Dickinson was able to correlate everyday actions to much more profound meanings; with this mastered ability of hers, the reader could share the same obscure thoughts as the speaker. Even the core…

list included many things that a reader could possibly be unaware of so, if a reader reads the list and notices that they do not know what one of the ingredients are they will be more aware about the fact that they must start paying attention to the ingredients. The second rhetorical device used was a hypophora, “Is that it? Chalk, water…and peppermint? Not quite.” (Bodanis, 12). Using a hypophora gives an emphasis to Bodanis’s next sentence and it engages the reader with the next sentence as…

“Snow” And the Impact of Love on Memory The style of a story is the director of attention, fixing the readers’ eyes on a central theme or idea. Ann Beattie uses style to portray the effects of memories influenced by love in her short story called “Snow”. The power, strength, and futility of love effects someone by touching their heart and marking on their memory. Now, the author’s voice in this story is spoken through the style; the primary message about love and memory in this work is…

surprising to them, as they are inexperienced to this and are discussing over it with different emotions. To this the reader can be able to understand that not all trips go well, not even if the trips are well planned like Mitzi and her friends with their equipment. As the story progresses one of the friends named Homer pushes another friend, Lisbeth, out of the plane. This is showing the reader that everyone reacts differently to different situations they are in, especially with friends who you…

“Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions”. The most important consideration when asking if this quote from Joseph Addison is invariably true is the definition of the word delightful. If ‘delightful’ is taken to mean ‘causing delight’, then the quote…