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Traumatized Literary devices are what make the story come alive and give the reader a feeling of actually being there. The literary devices increase a reader’s interest in the story and also helps keep the audience engaged. They help create a more fascinating plot. In the short story “Ambush” by TIm O’brien uses them to develop a character so much more. Mr. O’brien used internal conflict, external conflict, and flashback to put the reader in the character’s “shoes” throughout the story.

Literary elements and writer’s craft are essential to a well written story that gives understanding and meaning to the readers. Authors use these elements to add deeper meaning to a story that otherwise is as dull and same as the rest. The short story Lamb to the Slaughter is about a wife who kills her husband and then tries to cover it up. The Leap, another short story, is about a girl who is telling stories about her mother’s life. Both short stories portray and utilize literary elements and writer’s craft but Lamb to the Slaughter uses them more effectively and clearly.

"Stories that show all too clearly how airily Faulkner can reproduce the manipulation of the reader's emotions is the real aim of the commercial short story. (Kazin 162) . "The total story says what has been said in so much successful literature." (Lewis 157) . "Man's plight is tragic, but that there is heroism in an attempt to rise above it."(Lewis 157) .

Recently the class and I read a short story called Blue Against White, which focuses on the importance of memories during childhood and how it affects one's life. Jeannette C. Armstrong the author, uses writing techniques like symbolism through common motifs to aid the reader to have a better understanding of the the hidden morals within the story.  Literary elements that were applied in the story includes plot and character which also had immense connections towards the author itself. This can be shown through the word choice and the placement of the setting, which displayed a large significance in assisting the reader through imagery. The fact that Jeannette C. Armstrong developed such a self-discovery story helps bring attention

An author’s positioning of details in a story can make or break a story. Many aspects of revealing details can go wrong, but those details can be used to build suspense when they are placed in the correct space. Characterization is a huge part of Walker’s piece, and the way in which she used imagery and past events builds suspense and provides only needed information. The suspense created by Walker creates a sense of uneasiness in the reader, and adds to the overall message of the story. Through foreshadowing, Alice Walker was able to build up her characters and her plot, while at the same time not giving away too much information too soon. Stories can easily be flooded out with too much nonessential information, but all the information

Elements within literature make a story unique and admirable.. In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, the short story exemplifies several usages of literary elements. The author of the 1930 classic, Katherine Anne Porter, made irony very prevalent throughout the story. For instance, Porter’s masterpiece includes an immense percentage of it being written around an ironic situation. In this essay, I am going to elaborate with you, the reader, examples and the premises as to why the author used literary elements in her work.

Authors use literary elements dramatically in short stories to influence a certain feeling on the reader or to send out a certain message to the audience. Throughout the stories, “The Interlopers” and “Lamb to the Slaughter”, both authors use elements to make their story appealing to the reader. Saki, the author of “The Interlopers” uses his examples of literary elements precisely and tremendously, which makes his story better than Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”.

Plot, theme, and suspense are three elements that stand out in this short story. They each come together to unfold a thrilling, yet meaningful tale. Among this elements, the theme is the component that primarily affects this account. The author, Richard Connell, proposes strength and skill, the effects of war, the loss of civilization, and that pride may lead to an inept consequences are crucial themes of this story.

The settings are used appropriately to the characters. For example the Hamilton’s land is completely dry of any water, but Samuel is one the kindest man in the county. Adam Trask’s land is full of water, but goes through a rough time and does become depressed for a time. Also for Cathy as it describes the different places where she goes that reflect her strange and manipulative personality. All of these settings help you see the difference between good and evil. The rooms in which certain things take place help add to the effect for certain events.

First of all, in both stories we found a parent-child relationship. In scholarship baby exists a mom/daughter relationship that is showed along the story. At the end of this story, the protagonist states, “Ma, with a little more that you had. Twenty dollars in the drawer, friends and prayer for he hard time. We need a lot of tickets to ride, lot of chance. I didn’t make it like you thought, but I made it another way. And I’m still exceptional, along with al the others. Beauty and brilliance right here”. This demonstrates how much she cares about her mom and the relationship that they had. In contrast, in bread story there is a father/soon relationship and we can see it easily when they get together to work or when his father offers a job to him.

Had she not passed away at the too-young age of 39 from lupus, today would have been legendary Southern Gothic author Flannery O’Connor’s 87th birthday. To celebrate her legacy of pitch-perfect short stories and razor-sharp wit, we’ve collected a few of our favorite works from some of the best short story writers of all time, all available online — though we can’t promise reading them that way will be as satisfying as hefting a huge tome of collected stories. This is not meant to be a definitive list of the best short stories in the world, but merely a celebration of the form and a collection of ten of our many favorites, limited to those that we could track down online, to make your Sunday afternoon a little better. Click through to read ten stories from some of literature’s greats, and link us to your own favorites in the comments!

This clever story is crafted down to the smallest detail - every word and expression implies something, often has a second meaning and so manipulates the reader's opinion. The factor that makes this story even more

role in the emotions and interpretations of the reader and impact the effectiveness of the short

Although the message each of them carries is different, reading them creates a strange sense of déjà vu. In fact, both short stories depict women, their emotional state and social status, as well as portray one significant event that influences greatly their life. A reader paying scrupulous attention to detail might even come across some identical phrases used by the author in her both works, like “the toaster oven, so convenient for solo dinners” (Atwood, “Weight” 212) and “a toaster oven, so perfect for solo dining” (Atwood, “The Age of Lead” 12). Nevertheless, this common feature just emphasizes Atwood’s talent and her unique ability to make stories different and similar at the same

dramatic irony is used all along the short story as a way of reminding us the