In Joseph Mankiewicz’s All About Eve, mood frequently determines the setting and tone. It provides support to the content of the story which is set through tone, setting, and elocution. When Addison DeWitt speaks, for instance, he instantly establishes the mood and introduces the scene. A character’s emphasis on language or vocabulary can represent the character whereas their speech or intonation can induce emotions in the readers. Using Jakobson’s Functions of Language allows the reader to analyze the language and close read the text in the film. In All About Eve, the the most prominent functions represented are referential and poetic. The referential function allows the reader to clearly imagine the situation or description of the scene/character. …show more content…
It puts “the focus on the message for its own sake” (Jakobson, 1960, p.356). It concentrates on language and the caution one has when speaking. This function is evident when Addison introduces Eve, “Eve. Eve, the Golden Girl. The cover girl, the girl next door, the girl on the moon... Time has been good to Eve, Life goes where she goes - she's been profiled, covered, revealed, reported, what she eats and when and where, whom she knows and where she was and when and where she's going... “ (Mankiewicz 1950). There is a mix alliteration and rhyming in this passage which both relate to the poetic function. Alliteration is a “stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series” (Literary Devices). The alliteration is seen through the reoccurrence of the letter or sound of ‘g’ as he keeps repeating the word ‘girl.’ Also, the letter ‘w’ can be seen quite a bit as he uses “what,” “when,” “where,” and “whom.” The message in this passage suggests that Eve is the “perfect” girl. When reading it, the tone is romantic and rosy. However, after watching the film and hearing this again, one could say that it is a bit sarcastic and passive since the reader is aware of how she really
The writer influences the mood of the reader by the use of alliteration, syntax, and understatement when he paints the settings of the book. For example, when the Geats have gone to bed, the author describes the land
Language and voice certainly play a crucial role in the novel. Readers who are not familiar with the language used in the novel would feel repulsed by the slang and consider the writing style as an obstacle in truly understanding the novel. However, when the reader gets used to the style Hurston writes, he/she will notice that Hurston’s rich southern dialect
Have you ever wondered about what techniques can be used in a story to describe a mood or an atmosphere? In the story “Lob’s Girl”, by Joan Aiken, Aiken uses three of the many techniques. The three techniques were Plot Events, Settings, and Word Choices. These techniques were used to express the mood in the beginning and at the end of the book.
Thus, he uses personification to make the story more interesting. Following this, alliteration shows repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words. For example, when he uses great alliteration, the
A final feature in the text which is vital for creating an emotional connection with the audience is the style in which it is written as it conveys Galloways personality, which allows the reader to understand the meaning of the text and relate to it, making it easier to connect with. The first element of style that Galloway uses to her advantage is formality; rather than writing it in a complex and serious manner, the writer presents the text in a light-hearted way making it more accessible and enjoyable. Aspects of the text which contribute towards are informality are the use of slang - "LURV", "stunk like a month-old kipper"; use of short sentences - "This did not trouble me. I was a biddable child. Most are."; and parenthesis - "(there were no men in our house)". These stylistic features all mirror the structure of natural, spoken language, therefore the reader feels as
Sometimes nobody remember that eve can be harm. Everyone seems to ignore her, they called her when they were on the point of dying. She seems like a rough person and she do everything to reinforce that image. But, as everyone, she has weak spot and those were things for her impossible to admit. One of then was the fact of being ignored, to them to think she was useless.
And considering that language can take many different meanings, I found two instances or scenes in which language played a vital role. It impacted the author as a child in ways that may have led to his writing style as it is in this novel, therefore it helped to shape him as a writer. These scenes also
In literature, tone is often described as the attitude of the story. It is the method used by the author to add personality or emotion. Without tone, even the best-rounded characters can easily come across as flat. Tone is not simply style, diction, or setting, but instead is the tool that holds all of these pieces together. In, “The Lottery”, author Shirley Jackson’s use of tone not only leads the reader down a familiar easy path to follow, but also sets the stage for the climactic change in events that leaves the reader’s emotions spiraling out of control.
Tone is a literary device that is common in most works of writing. It is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. It is significant in that not only does it express the attitude of the author, but it also helps to quicken the pace of the plot. In the poem “Variations of the Word ‘“love”’,” Margaret Atwood wrote:
Alliteration is defined as the repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables. It is a literary device that authors use to bring attention to certain important ideas or concepts in stories. Alliterations allow the reader to bring their senses together to hear and feel what they are reading by bring in sounds of the world around us into literate. This helps the reader visualize the story, therefore helping the reader to remember it. It is used in many stories as a way to hide metaphors and other subliminal messages. For example, alliterations with the 's' being the prominent sound could be visualized as a snake slithering, making a character have a slyness about him. Specifically in Anglo-Saxon literature, alliteration is significant because it is how authors organized their poems or stories, includes repetition which aids memorization, and emphasizes important parts of the text that the author wants the audience to know. Alliteration in important in both “The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament” because it helps evoke certain emotions and feelings by using the different functions of alliterative language.
The way diction is crafted in a novel establishes the atmosphere and the mood of a setting for the reader to interpret. Craig Silvey’s, Jasper Jones, published in 2009, is a novel that uses specific language conventions to create certain moods for the reader. Craig Silvey’s clever use of diction to shape the different settings of summer heat, the glade and Jack Lionel’s house has established a particular mood for the reader to interpret in the novel. The narrative conventions used to shape the setting invokes specific thoughts from the audience to associate that setting with a particular mood or atmosphere.
In this story there is a lot of alliteration used and this alliteration to show the entertainment in the story. One example is the sentence “But hard as he hammered down, it hurt him not more than to nick the nape of his neck, so it split the skin;” Almost every line in this part of the story used alliteration in every sentence which created a mood that kept people reading and now looking deeper into this stuff I could see that this creates a rhythm for this story.
The tone is another substantial particularity of novelists’ ways of writing. Despite discussing similar theme, both authors employ divergent tones while unfolding their stories. Indeed, while writing his literary piece William Golding’s tones vary from a tedious to a dreadful tone, from a melancholic tone
Furthermore, the effectiveness of the language techniques utilised throughout the story and the relevance the novel has on contemporary audiences will be highlighted.
Likewise, the language the author uses also clarifies the tone and the theme of the novel. In many positions in the novel, languages such as grief, despair, hate, and revenge