Selzer's Essay: Genre

The short story, “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton, reveals numerous popular literary elements. Some of the most prominent examples of literary elements are irony, symbolism, and foreshadowing. All three elements create the feel and atmosphere of the short story. They add illustration, mystery, and humor to the storyline.

The first paragraph indicates which genre the tale is. Genre is the type of the tale. For example, tragedy is different from comedy. If an audience expects a happy ending in a tragedy, he or she would be upset. The genre of tragedy determine there is not a happy ending. The expectation of each genre is different. In other words, at the first time reading the tale,

I believe that it is primary nonfiction element that the author weaves throught the essay that allows me to gain additional insight into the essay's overall purpose. For example, " The Innocent Man" by Pamela Colloff used characterization to explained his character that whether he is inncoent or not about killed his wife. She wrote about his emotional speech about his son that he is worried about him and begged them to not lose him. It showed me that he have a good side. On the other hand, few friends think he have issue with his wife because of his bad actions. "A life worth Ending" by michael Wolff is really confusing, I believe it is point of view because the author wrote about his mother who is very sick on bed. He is using first person,

I chose this genre because it gives you thoughts of the main character. It gives the reader the perspective of a character. The purpose of a journal entry is to give you look into a character's head, it helps readers understand the problems better. This is good because back then the times were very different, it can help you understand the troubles they went through everyday, and how life was. It helped the story overall because it helped start to open about some troubles starting to emerge, and it helped tell what the character wanted in the story as well. So the

Genre is the French word for 'type'. Type is the kind of text it is.

Leadership in engineering requires intelligence, outstanding ethics, and humility. William LeMessurier exhibited these qualities throughout his career. LeMessurier was a structural engineer based in the Boston area who specialized in high-rise buildings.

David Pelzer, in the beginning of the book, seems to come from the all American family. Mother, father and two brothers take family vacations together, watch cartoons on sunday mornings and eat dinner every night at the time. However, what goes on inside of a home is a lot different from how a home looks on the outside. David is always the one to receive his mothers punishment while his siblings and father watch. The punishments started out as harsh and soon turned to frightenly violent. David tries hard to do good in his home, trying to clean the dishes a little faster or make his bed quicker than his siblings, but still continues to be the cause of his mothers manic behavior. David is only allowed the leftovers of his brothers cereal in the morning, but soon he goes days without eating for no reason. Before, David’s mother took pride in her appearance and wanted to impress her husband. However, David’s father soon wants nothing to do with his mother and starts coming home drunk almost every night. David’s father was once his only means of protection, but with him out of the house, David is on his own to surivive.

side a lot of the time as we only se his views and life through

I chose to approach this assignment by focusing on an aspect from Devitt that I was still having a hard time figuring out. The new conception of genre is a more complex approach than the older conventional concept of genre. Devitt express her concern with the old concept of genre and present evidence or theory that the older concept may present restrictions whereas the newer concept, although more complex allows for more diversity in the construction of the genre. As stated on page 575,” Once our attention shifts to the origins of genres, it also shifts away from their formal features” The new concept is to create a genre that will unify two divided opposite groups to help us understand the process of language in writing a genre.

As writers, we must understand that the stance and genre of our writing correlates to the audience of the writing. Believe it or not, the audience can surely impact the stance and genre of which will ultimately influence how the writer computes their writing. It is quite common that a writer will distribute their stance in nearly all writings. The easiest to identify and differ stances are those that are indifferent and those that glorifies passionate stances. On the other hand, the genre in our writing is in direct relationship with the audience of the writing. How we purpose our message to certain audience is greatly influenced on who that actual audience is.

Minters style of writing is one of a kind, he is not your ordinary author especially not with his curly brown hair and nerdy characteristics, mainly not your ordinary book. He presents us with an extraordinary reading, based on our most inner guilt's that we may not yet come to realize, that we are slowly harming our planet with our wants and needs that are not sustainable for the environment as we think and as they claim to be. For example did you know that “ iphone touch screen isn’t made from the same glass as a beer bottle...it contains a range of so called rare elements, including indium, a valuable mineral...costs more than $200 per pound” (Minter, 256). Minter reveals to us extraordinary evidence that he acquires by actually contacting

The Genres of Grandma's Letters introduced a very new concept to me. Previous to this class I had a very different definition of genre engraved within my brain. Then we started relearning and rediscovering a new definition of genre. Just when I thought I knew what a genre was I read this article. Within this reading the author describes how her grandma had a genre of her own. Grandma wrote letters which fell into the genre of letters but there was another sub-genre. This sub-genre was based off the way she wrote. Grandma's letters were different for the author than other letters so to the author these letters became a whole new genre. This got me thinking about the different books that I read and it started to make more sense to me. Even though

Great job! Identifying which genre and sub-genre a text falls under is the first step to begin comparing and contrasting between two stories. When doing so, it is helpful to use the chart from Lesson Six that looks like this:

Made famous by the late comedian Flip Wilson, the Devil made me do it, was a quirky phrase used to pass the blame to the one entity that no one would expect anything but a mischievous act. This annoying saying became overused to the point of nausea in the seventies and became synonymous with acts of slapping girls’ bottoms or pinching in places better left unmentioned. When handed the list of book titles and authors to choose from, I immediately went for Norman Mailer. I had heard of him and some of his antics in the past and quickly decided he was the one. The author of over forty books and eleven published novels, Mailer is almost as well-known for his public activities and persona. His novel The Castle in the Forest which the sources

The term ‘Genre’ in relation to the film used to categorise films based on the plot, characterisation and setting. Films can have multiple genres within them which works to attract an interested audience. Dead Poets Society (DPS) directed by Peter Weir (1989), the film we have been observing incorporates the bildungsroman (coming of age) genre and romance genre in order to notify the struggles and success of teenage boys and their teacher who attends Welton Academy.