Management Styles Essay

No. Quotation Analysis/Commentary Devices 1. “Sergeant Benet reached over in front of me and sounded the horn again. It made a sheepish bleat, ridiculous coming from this armor-plated truck with its camouflage paint.”(3) Wolff’s use of a metaphor comparing the noise of the car’s horn to a sheep’s bleat emphasizes on his playful side and provides comic relief for the audience. Metaphor Characterization Comic-Relief 2. “As I sat on my bunk one night, reading a book, I became aware that one of my shipmates

When it comes to living life, one often ponders about the end of life, about death. It is a common topic that allows for reflection upon the humanity of oneself and those around. Life and death are a topic that is versatile to authors of diverse genres. Virginia Woolf is one of those authors who was drawn to this continuum. Woolf was exposed to death early on, born in 1882, her mother passed in 1895, her half-sister died in 1897, her father followed in 1890, and her brother in 1906. Due to her melancholic

Ariel Haskins Elegy for Jane Two of the most beautiful combinations, to me, are the use of imagery and metaphors. With the use of these two figures of speech the reader is able to paint a complete, detail picture in their from the piece they are reading. In “Elegy for Jane”, the speaker is standing over the grave of a student, Jane, of his who fell of a horse to her death. Roethke uses imagery and diction, among other figures of speech, to help the reader picture the young Jane that he loved and

In “This Is the Dark Time My Love,” Martin Carter illustrates the intersection of fear, anxiety and ominousness by showcasing a conflict between the invaders and residents. The narrator sets the tone by initially painting a picture of bleak hopelessness. The use of visual imagery and poetic devices enables readers to not only feel the dread and despair that the narrator feels but they can also picture a dark time where conflict and oppression reign supreme. Carter reinforces the dark tone throughout

The usual focus when reading a story is usually on the main character. However, what kinds of elements make up the story to develop the main character? One element that is usually overlooked is the power of setting. Setting can turn a good story into a great one. Setting often provides more then just a mere backdrop for the action in the story. Setting can make or break a story. And this is evidently seen in A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner. The physical setting, time setting and cultural settings

started to become more popular during the time of the Romantic and Transcendentalist. Washington Irving was an extremely popular author during this time, who was also an author that stretched and tested the limits of past authors’ styles, as well as creating his own new style. Washington Irving’s short story “The Devil and Tom Walker” is a retelling of a Germanic Faust legend. In the story Tom Walker finds himself in a deep in the forest and comes face to face with the Devil. The Devil tries to make

In 1775, during the time Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention” was written the colonists wanted to gain independence from Great Britain. King George created unreasonable taxes, the colonists felt like they shouldn’t have to pay for it so they began to rebel. Jonathan Edwards’s gave his sermon “ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” during the 1740’s, also this when the outbreak of the Great Awakening took place and a religious revival swept the colonies and sparked conversions. In

Unseen Crime Scene The scene within Elsie’s Business that I found the most impactful to the narrative as a whole, by way of the writing style, was the scene where Sheriff Parker discovers the body of Elsie Roberts. Unlike most other scenes in the book, this one is written quite differently. In most other parts of the novel, the reader is meant to “listen” to the story and make their own interpretations and conclusions regarding the events of the novel based solely on the information given, particularly

The verbal-visual collage I organized for Anne Michaels’ poem outlines the figurative imagery of women and nature becoming one. Pictures that demonstrate the idea being portrayed in each line of the poem were used. The main poetic device that Anne Michaels favoured in the poem, “Women on a Beach” was personification and metaphors. The poem is a total of 13 lines, and my collage consequently, contains 13 images. My personal favourite line in this poem is, “Far away in a boat, someone wears a red shirt

Not as Simple as Black and White An unreliable narrator is a character that is untrustworthy, either due to madness, alcoholism, or a multitude of other characterizations that might cause one to constantly need to question the narration. The author of “The Black Cat”, Edgar Allan Poe, uses this type of narrator in this short story When reading his works, one must always be on the lookout for inconsistencies, errors, and improbabilities. This forces the reader to read critically and to actively challenge