Saki The Open Window Diction Analysis

Throughout Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, there are many details that help give the reader a deeper, more profound, meaning of the book's intended purpose. Krakauer is one of the most renowned American writers, publishing many books focused specifically focused on nature, and people’s struggles in nature. Through much of the book, Krakauer incorporates many examples of diction and imagery to help the reader grasp the essence of the book. By using a wide range of literary techniques, Krakauer is able to communicate the events that transpired throughout the book.

A ghost is a spiritual being that is said to be a spirit of a deceased person. They are something that most people fear, don’t believe in, or think they are an evil being. Different religions have different views on ghosts and along with those views come different stories. One story that involves a ghost is Hamlet. Hamlet has recently lost his father and thinks he is being surrounded by his father’s ghost. However, Hamlet is at first unsure about the ghost’s state. He does not know if it is the devil or if it is actually his father’s spirit coming to tell him something. His decision could be based off of religion and what he believes. Protestants believe that all ghosts are evil and come in the form of the devil.

No closure on his fathers murder, and the thought that his uncle married his mother sickens him, events too close. He started to see the ghost when he thought of it because of his lack of closure. (Quote of the funeral food being used for the wedding)

Dictionary is to give suggestion of something that has not yet happened. In books, people convey some ideas that people might want to pay heed to. The characters in the stories may foretell things that might eventually happen to they themselves or other characters in the novel. This is true when it comes to the novel My Brother Sam is Dead. The main characters and some other characters foreshadow how they themselves perish. This piece of writing will illustrate just some of the foreshadowing that takes place in My Brother Sam is Dead. Read to find out what happened when the characters in this adventure used words to express what was going to happen to them.

The Life of a Jew A girl, born in Holland, had a life changing experience when Hitler sent troops to attack her hometown. A nonfiction book, otherwise known as The Hiding Place, a story describing Corrie Ten Boom’s perspective of her journey that she took during World War II. The author uses diction, syntax, imagery, and tone to elaborate and describe what is going on in the book, as well as it gives personal thoughts to have a closer relationship with the reader. Diction can make a big difference in the book.

During week one of EDC131 I learned that the way in which language is used to communicate can vary depending on the context. I also learned that there are numerous forms of communication this includes writing, talking, and gestures. In learning the three communications, it became clear that communication is more than just speaking and the way that language is used to express different emotions. Language also shows opinions, beliefs, wishes, threats, commands, promises, and many others are also expressed through language and can alter the meaning if the context is changed. This will later be helpful with my education and future career.

An example of diction is,” The door was blistered and distained”(49).This creates a gloomy mood because the words blistered and distained means that the door looks old and gloomy. “And his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical…”(74). Is another good example of diction. This is gloomy because Jekyll says that he likes to use chemicals in the laboratory. The last example of diction is,”...drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another”(117).The reason this is gloomy is because Jekyll uses the medicine to change himself. That is why diction also makes the book have a gloomy

The authors use of diction in the novel help the style such as repetition of phrases, rhetorical phrases. He uses it to show satire and that's his main goal in the novel. The author uses ironic devices such in the form of foreshadowing, Hungry Joe, always did not like Huple’s cat even saying it could possibly kill him, and towards the end it's revealed he dies when the cat suffocated him in his

People from all over the world come to America for the American dream and when coming here they start to adopt the so-called American culture, which is depicted as the perfect family of four and having a white picket fence. We're filled with hope that coming to the land of freedom will alleviate the problem we had before. We will have more opportunities and ways to better ourselves and succeed. We can build ourselves from the bottom up, but if we were to take a step back and think about the concept of the American dream would we still say it's attained? Lysley Tenorios, Monstress answers if the American Dream is still attainable with three different scenarios in his book. Tenorio uses interesting diction to describe the hardships and how deceiving

Edith Wharton uses the diction of a fantastical republic and an analogy to emphasize how Lily and Selden’s relationship is secretive and it is not possible for them to marry in her book The House of Mirth. At this point in the novel Lily has financial difficulties and must marry someone who can provide her with money

The ghost is merely a figment of Hamlet’s imagination. As Dr. Robert H. West, Professor of English Literature at the University of Georgia, illustrates in “King Hamlet’s Ambiguous Ghost” from Journal of Literary, only Hamlet is able to hear the ghost while he is in his mother’s Chamber indicating that the ghost is a product of Hamlet’s imagination (1109). In Edgar Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator panics over a noise he alone is cognizant. The failure of

“Out with the old and in with the new.” New may seem like a good thing but, it can’t compare to the value the old has provided. The true worth of this value is the ability to think, to process information above the surface level. Cynthia Ozick distinguishes the differences between an essay and an article, proposing that an essay is more valuable and more worth the read than an article. Ozick uses analogies, personal references, and a great use of diction to express her opinions on the importance of essays and articles.

In the trees by Thomas Wagner, Thomas uses a shift in diction to display how regrets can hold us back from progressing. Thomas starts off the poem with a strong shift in diction to set up the personification of the trees, “All of the trees packed together The leafless winter or the colorful spring They do a funny thing The trees they pull you back They hold you there” (Wagner 1). Using words in the beginning such as “funny” and “colorful” then to change such diction in the next stanza applying phrases like “pull you back” and “hold you”, these words are presented in such tone and context to amplify the personification by letting it stand out from the rest of the poem. Thomas also uses a different shift in diction later telling “I don't always

The diction in the book is somewhat casual but it is also scholarly. Most of the sentences are easy to understand throughout the book but there are some that contain higher vocabulary that the reader, like myself might not know what those words mean. When Zinsser is discussing how to write about places in chapter 13 of the book he mentions “the mere agglomeration of detail is no free pass to the reader’s interest (117).” The vocabulary in that sentence that makes it seem more elevated and scholarly would be agglomeration because I do not typically hear this word be spoken in everyday conversation which makes the reader think it is a special word. Another word that makes the book have higher diction is the word “platitudes (117)”, and considering

In Michael Newton’s Introduction to the Penguin Book of Ghost Stories, he states that “when ghosts come back they are attached to a person or place.” This is relevant in all of the stories that we have discussed in class. The ghosts don 't just come back to be back, they come back for a reason. In The Readjustment the wife comes back to haunt her husband because of the way he acted after she passed. In Beloved, Beloved comes back to be with her mother and the rest of her family. In Turn of the Screw, the valet and governess come back to be with the children that they watched her before passing. The ghosts were “stuck” in this world until they were able to say goodbye or hear what they needed to