Formalist Approach By Laurence Sterne

The debate of what literature is or how it should be defined is an ongoing battle even today. Many have expressed that literature should be well-written, worthy of study, and also stand the test of time, despite most of this criteria catering towards classical literature written by wealthy white men, while others believe this is all too subjective to work fairly. I personally believe that literature is at least three of the following: An embodiment of the human experience, a reflection of cultural perspective, and the relationship between author and reader.

The author’s main idea and purposes are revealed by a series of anecdotes and allusions. The author gets very personal about the subject, as if she was going through the realization herself. You can see her opinion by the way she refers to certain things. For example, the author brings up an old memory from her childhood in paragraph nine. When she is describing the boxcar children, the words she uses are almost as if they were too

The organization and transitions take away from his actual writing. He jumps from one idea to another and it is not clear what the point is at that specific moment. One example of this is when he jumps from masculinity, to a short paragraph about femininity, then abruptly back to the problems with being a male.

Literature, the dictionary defines it being the art of written works that is simultaneously designed to entertain, educate and instruct its audience; writers, using their skill of telling stories, use literature in an attempt to transfer their ideas from paper to the reader; for some, this task means bringing their story to a different place and time that is entirely separate from what the could be perceive as ordinary, on order to serve the writer’s intent. With this, the impossible, becomes the probable, and the worst fear imagined becomes the breathed reality; with no separation between the truth, and fiction. The word “literature” in itself cannot be accurately defined, and by attempting to do so, it limits the word not only in its

-Literature is something that can't be original, all literature is usually inspired by some other literature that existed prior to the current piece of literature.

Literature is an essential part of the center of a person’s life. It provides a certain assurance and “feeds the soul” of one. Whether it be a book, TV, or even an advertisement, literature exists everywhere. A person is able to develop many skills by studying literature, and expand the horizon of their learning. An immeasurable amount of insight and knowledge can be gained from the study of literature which contributes in providing readers with an understanding of the past, and a philosophical assimilation of the moral behind a writing piece.

2. Describe the sentences the author uses. (long/short, wordy/direct, simple/complex, plain/ornate, straightforward/elaborate, fragments) Do you notice any patterns in the author’s sentences?

ENC Major Project 1 Rough Draft JF Jacquelin Fleming Tue 9/15/2015 12:00 AM Inbox; Sent Items To: Jacquelin Fleming; When you think of literature, reading and writing is usually what comes to mind.

By using abstract and concrete diction, Moss was able to add emphasis in the areas he wanted in order for the readers to grasp the key message he was trying to achieve. Not only did it add emphasis, it made the piece very professional and trustworthy. Moss shows his expertise and the serious manner he has toward this subject. The reader was able to grasp things and take consideration into what is being said. Since there is no usage of low vocabulary, the author’s goal in presenting his subject increased his credibility, thus gaining the reader’s

First, it should be mentioned that the author divided the text into subtitles that guide a reader through reading. The fact that the author analyzes

Within the book “The Things They Carried”, the author uses numerous writing techniques to dramatize the situation, and get his point across. This type of writing is very suiting due to the emotional and intense content in the passage. To help convey this intensity, the author will do things such as addressing the reader directly, to creating a series of lists, or even just making the paragraphs extremely long.

Literary Terms/ Techniques- This novel was written in a Third person point of view. It was as if you were telling some one what had happened through -out the book. This story was written in a novel form. There were paragraphs and chapters, not lines and scenes. This book was not based on fact. This was not a factual book, it is science fiction novel and was created in the imagination of the authors head.

By definition, a novel is any relatively long piece of written narrative fiction, normally in prose, and typically published book. The novel at present makes use of a literary prose style. The prose style and its development novels today was encouraged by innovations in printing, and it was introduced during 15th century

A novel is long narrative written by a novelist that describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story. The later, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century. The first significant European novelist is Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, the first part of which, the first part of which was published in 1605. The term novel refers back to the production of short stories that remained part of a European oral culture of storytelling in to the 19th century. Fairy tales, jokes, little funny stories designed to make a point in a conversation, the exemplum a priest would insert in a sermon belong in to this tradition.

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, literature is defined as being the body of written works of a language, period, or culture. An author of any specific type of writing or works can include certain details pertaining to language or other details, which allow the reader to develop a sensory image of that specific period or culture. If the reader had no prior knowledge to the language, period, or culture of the writing he or she would be reading, upon reading and analyzing