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Literary Comparison Jenna Sanders ENG125: Introduction to Literature (GSH1035D) Michelle Pinkard September 28,2010 People in all organizations and walks of life must have the ability to work in a team environment. Yet the world can not see that viewpoint sometimes, the idea that we all stand together in one fight. Thus creating conflict, the literary element I have chosen. Tuesday 9/11/01 by Lucille Clifton is the poem to represent the ongoing conflict of Man versus Society. In the last stanza

Post-Modernism is a revolutionary era that follows Modernism and developed in mid to late twentieth century. It takes a changed and developed approach across philosophy, art, criticism, and architecture and makes a departure from Modernism. The term Postmodernism is applied to an era that both follows modernity, and also acts as a host of movements that emerged during the era especially in art, music, and literature, marked by the tendencies against modernism. It is more like the ‘rejection of conventional

In each writing, fiction or nonfiction, there are always characters who keep the story moving along through conflict and dialog. One challenge an author has to accomplish while allowing the story to flow is creating these characters in two different ways; direct and indirect characterization. Throughout the fictional novel, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, the author, Stephanie Oakes, did an exuberant job of creating full bodied, round characters using direct characterization. She was able to do this

of a lie, there is still a fine proportion of literary works overlooked. The factual based non-fiction, which includes polemical works, biographies and more, simply does not fit. For example, The Diary of Anne Frank and If this is a man all give a true (if not unbiased) account of the concentration camp, and since skill and interpretation all remain essential in their writing, we cannot dismiss non-fiction as ‘non-artistic’ literature. This suggests Picasso’s quote is somewhat exclusive to the fictional

learning in one lesson for peak instructional efficiency. In an article titled “Why and How I Teach With Historical Fiction”, by author, Tarry Lindquist, she expresses the significant role that historical fiction literature has for young adult readers and students. This genre introduces readers to more serious topics and situations, that include both fact, such as actual events, but also fiction, such as characters and incidents that are not real but could have very well happened. This article applies to

indulges us in a different world by using descriptive writing that paints a vivid picture in our mind. Every author has a different way to accomplish that, but the main purpose is to draw the reader into the desired place and time of the literature. I will compare two poems and one story that capture the imagination by a descriptive writing. First we will take a closer look how these authors accomplished their transition of us into their world and then we will compare if those works have something

of Writing Have you ever read a book that defies a single genre and has a sense of ambiguity throughout the whole story? If not, then I suggest that you read this book and find out how the author demands us to draw conclusions to the genre and stories in the novel. In “The Things They Carried”, the author Tim O’Brien, demands readers to appreciate the happenings and ambiguity of the novel with his remarkable style of writing. Throughout the book, Tim O’Brien has the reader believe that stories

Title Where the Wild Things Are Author Maurice Sendak What it’s all about? A young boy who dreams of a land of Wild Things away from his problems at home. Why it was chosen? It is a quality picture book because it is a Caldecott Medal winner. Title Where in the Wild?: Camouflaged Creatures Concealed…and Revealed Author David Schwartz What it’s all about? Pictures of creatures that are camouflaged with poems that offer clues to find out the animals identity. Why it was chosen? It was chosen due

There are many similarities between A Study In Scarlet, a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, and the BBC television episode “A Study In Pink.” The two most distinctive similarities - aside from how both antagonists share the same name - are how the killers, Jefferson Hope in the novel, and Jeff Hope in the television series, are both victims and eventually succumb to an aneurysm, as well as how both Hope men involve two pills, one placebo and one poison, in their murders. Because both men have been diagnosed

Gayle Forman used to be a journalist. Her first job was for “Seventeen” magazine. Adam, Mia’s boyfriend that she adores, from “If I Stay” was inspired by Forman’s husband. She is a teen fiction author, best known for her novel “If I Stay” which topped the New York Times best sellers list of Young Adult Fiction and was made into a movie. Gayle Forman was born in 1970 in Los Angeles. She now lives in New York. She didn't start writing professionally until after college, when she first became a journalist