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    Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich utilizes an authentic narrative told through a modest authorial voice to show the reader what life is like in a Soviet labor camp in the harsh winter of 1951. In this book, space and language converged in an austere union that rendered time the most defining theme, and yet also utterly meaningless. Language is the unifying force that retains the characters’ humanity, yet ironically also stripping them of it in certain contexts. Space is conveyed

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    People read countless stories that have a variety of themes in them. When people read “Angela's Ashes” by Frank McCourt, and “The Street” by Ann Petry, they can probably sense that there is something similar among the two stories', and that's because they share a common theme. The theme is how people can persevere through problems that they encounter. The reader will discover this similar theme of persevering through problems with the way the authors utilize the character of characters feelings and

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    Whether it be a result of the re-education or just coming of age, the Narrator in the novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie develops monumentally. In this passage, The Narrator was caught retelling the tailor a story he had read. However, the headman put forth a proposition. If Luo (the Narrator’s friend) can fix his tooth, he will not report the Narrator to the Security Office. The headman is both respected and feared yet in reality, he is quite vulnerable. This is proven during

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    In For That He Looked Not upon Her, George Gascoigne uses several literary devices to bring his poem together in a way that makes the point of it clear. He also uses these devices to show the deeper meaning behind his words. Of many, three of the devices used prominently throughout his work is form, diction, and imagery. All pulled together the author is able to clearly portray a betrayed tone towards the subject of the poem. An example of the diction in his writing is use of word

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    This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, published in 1959, is a short story about a concentration camp prisoner's experience working on Canada, the group of inmates responsible for helping unload the incoming prisoner transports. The narrator bares witness to many atrocities throughout the story, which are made more impactful to the reader through Borowski’s use of impactful dialogue, figurative language, casual and matter-of-fact tone, and repetition. These literary elements

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    his narrator Fredric Henry. At the beginning of Chapter Twenty-One, death and destruction is mentioned briefly only before a one-sided conversation with a snooty British major that leaves Henry bored. This passage portrays Hemingway’s dark but witty style through his discursive and wistful tone, varied figures of speech, and repetitive and violent diction to indicate the limbo war places soldiers in. Hemingway’s tone, displayed by Henry’s lack of focus and wistful remarks on past events, mirrors the

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    In the poem “Holy Thursday”- songs of experience and in the poem “The Chimney Sweeper”, William Blake makes use of various literary techniques to portray the theme of cruelty towards children. The poem ‘Holy Thursday’ refers to the wretched condition of children in charity schools. The poem ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ refers to the poor children who were used as slaves in England. My aim for this essay is to explore how William Blake made use of various literary techniques to portray the theme of cruelty

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    McBride, Wayne 16 Nov. 2017 Robinson Eng. 101 The short story the Tale Tell Heart, Edger Allen Poe uses many literary elements to show the theme of the story. Some of the literary elements that Poe uses are first person narrator, interior monologue, stream of consciousness, and cosmic irony. With these elements Poe displays the theme of the story which is, we are afraid of the things we don’t understand and a guilty conscience will win out in the end. First person narration is throughout this story

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    Authors use literary elements dramatically in short stories to influence a certain feeling on the reader or to send out a certain message to the audience. Throughout the stories, “The Interlopers” and “Lamb to the Slaughter”, both authors use elements to make their story appealing to the reader. Saki, the author of “The Interlopers” uses his examples of literary elements precisely and tremendously, which makes his story better than Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”. The author of the story “Lamb to

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    The Keepin’ It REAL campaign aims to teach middle school students substance refusal strategies through the REAL method developed by narrative theory. The campaign, although successful, has definitive strengths and weaknesses in its execution. Through an explanation of the use of theory as well as message design, strategy and development, the campaign’s thought process and execution will be outlined. Strengths and weaknesses will be outlined through the critiques of the use of theory, missing campaign

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