Tone

reader within his tale through the use of thick tones and blanketing imagery. “The Adventure of the Final Problem” is narrated by Dr. Watson, a peripheral character, and not by the main character, as one might expect. By using a peripheral character, Dr. Watson, as the narrator, the story is told in a more objective manner. For example, after Holmes tells Dr. Watson about Professor Moriarty, Watson goes on to tell the next events with a very factual tone, stating, “In the morning I obeyed…

Poetry is a way of expressing emotions, feelings, thoughts or a specific passion on paper. The passion of poetry grows on people the more they continue to write. Some devices can be used to create rhythm such as repetition, syllable variation, and rhyming. Other devices such as sound, theme, imagery, etc. can be used to introduce something, someone, or a specific emotion the poet wants to introduce. Using these devices at the right time can improve a poems structure and provide a better…

wholly on appearance. Although maintaining a good appearance is important, and having beauty isn’t necessarily a bad thing, true love is more about internal attributes and not what’s on the outside. In “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Edmond Rostand uses conflict, tone, and diction to express the theme that true love is less about beauty and more about what’s on the inside. Edmond Rostand illustrates that one’s appearance is not the only factor to consider…

short story Ligeia through the death of a beautiful woman, the tone of the story, and being descriptive. Most of Poe’s work involves the death of a beautiful woman. In Ligeia this helps to build suspense by expressing the narrator’s deep love for lady Ligeia. An example would be that Poe uses phrases such as “the magnificent turn of the short upper lip” and “the soft, voluptuous…

continue to read. In “The Raven,” Poe creates an uncanny mood. If a person reads the poem, they will pick up on the mood and decide to either keep reading or stop, depending if they like the mood. In “The Raven,” Poe used techniques such as imagery, tone, suspense, and provided a setting to help set the mood of his poem, which brings me to my next paragraph. He used lots…

powerful pieces of literature to address a social issue in the respectful time period. In doing so, both Edwards and King display effective qualities of allusion and tone in order to force a strong message through to their audience. In order to write effectively, the author must use precise techniques.…

perspective on the topic of women’s rights in the books Madame Bovary and The Awakening. Although it is their diverse tone in which both argue their positive or negative ideas for letting women have the ability to choose. Gustave uses his tone to show how absurd and reckless the world would be, whereas Chopin explains, given the chance women would live simply, such as an average house-wife. Their tone is essential to understanding their feelings of the flawed or unflawed society. Flaubert, a…

In the Excerpts Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and Novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the mother-daughter relationships are slightly bitter. While Amy Chua uses more of a tense yet caring tone, Amy Tan has a hostile and harsh tone against her mother. Amy Chua uses a tense yet caring tone in The Violin to express how Chua and her daughter's relationship is based of off love even though playing the violin causes conflict between the two. There is a point of irony when the mother says…

experiences as an immigrant through her diction, details, and figurative language. In the beginning of Yezierska’s story she began with a hopeful and excited tone. Her hopes were to redeem freedom in America, which in line two she says, “America was a land of living hope, woven of dreams, a flame with longing hope.” In the next section her tone became more appreciative. When Yezierska received her first job from the american family, she mentions how grateful she was just to even mingle with…

Figurative language is a form of writing in which you use very descriptive words to describe something, such as a metaphor, simile, or personification. For example,“ Who’s eyes are are string and who throws coins like rain.” There are other examples in “Abuelito Who” which has many examples of figurative language in it. In “Abuelito Who” “his eyes are string” is a metaphor because it used the word is. Another example is “he throws coins like rain” which is a simile because it uses the…