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experience in the war into that of his narrator Fredric Henry. One of the most effective tools to display the destruction and chaos of this war was Hemingway’s writing style, clearly seen in the opening of Chapter Twenty-One. This passage, while introducing a devastating point of the war to the reader, demonstrates Hemingway’s dark but witty style through the discursive and wistful tone, varying figures of speech, and repetitive and brutal diction in order to effectively convey the current state of the narrator

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, contains a plethora of literary techniques which evoke strong emotions and opinions within the reader. Evidence of these techniques include: colloquial and formal language, tone and metaphors. Through incorporation of these literary devices the reader is positioned to empathise with each of the character’s perspectives whilst gaining a child’s perspective of injustice. The employment of these literary techniques powerfully delivers the underlying themes

The conflicts that arise during our childhood are especially important for personality development. Although most of these experiences have an irreversible effect on us, we still tend to forget these precious memories, as they are simply too embarrassing and painful to remember. In the extract from “Bad blood” by Lorna Sage, the author shows how the incident on the school playground has impacted her as an adult and her own personality. Lorna Sage highlights the hardships and challenges of childhood

Commentary of “Rising Five” by Norman Nicholson Norman Nicholson’s “Rising Five” is a narrative poem, written in first person narrative. The poem displays human tendency to look forward to future and articulates how people rush through certain stages of life, eventually driving to death itself. Throughout the poem, Nicholson questions people’s need to look ahead, without cherishing what we have in the present. Nicholson utilizes structure to emphasize human action looking ahead of time, metaphors

within the author’s writing style, and this is remarkably exemplified in Toni Morrison’s ‘A Mercy’. Morrison journeys an innovative route whereby she alternates between first-person narratives of different characters from one chapter to another, an element that brings readers a deeper insight into the characters themselves. Nearly half of A Mercy is told – or rather, written – by a slave girl named Florens, who is on a mission for her mistress. Morrison changes her writing style drastically to imitate

After which, an article evaluating Joaquin’s work and style will be presented. Finally, reviews of two of his works Culture and History and A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino will be used to dissect his style further and analyze his work through the lens of time and adaptations respectively. Journal articles and past theses will be used in tackling these topics. The Eccentricities

Alzheimer´s is a disease that destroys memory and other mental functions. Unbecoming is a story by Jenny Downham about the unpredictable Mary Todd, Mary has Alzheimer´s and the passing of her husband causes her to need to live with her daughter Caroline who is less than thrilled to have an additional person to look after other than her two kids. Throughout the story you can see how the characters deal with the chaos of life and the shift of plans caused by Mary moving in with Caroline and her

At the beginning of the novel, the narrator identifies an unintelligible clamor as being “the thoughts of the women of 124, unspeakable thoughts, unspoken.” In part two of the novel, Morrison vocalizes these “unspoken” thoughts through fragmented internal monologue and stream of consciousness, stylized to represent the characters’ state of being. This is when the narrative moves closer to describing the core event, and thus becomes more fragmented as it is told by those closely affected. This implies

Conversely, some writers have a rare style of writing that the reader may find it difficult to understand the premise of the writer (Kim,166). For example, Cha starts the book on an unpromising note that can repel a reader especially when they find it uninteresting. For example, the use of

Few poets can craft a piece of work that is as simplistic as it is complex. Walt Whitman does just this in his poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider”. Although only two stanzas for a total of ten lines, the amount of thought and intention put into this work is innumerable. A close read could provide countless hours of discussion for even the most highly intelligent of minds. This simple beauty is what makes a poem like “A Noiseless Patient Spider” great. In the piece, an observer watches a spider begin