Jelling style

The style of diction the author uses is dependent on what character is speaking. For example, when the author chooses Celie and/or the others around her to speak, the author portrays them with a slang style of diction. On the other hand, when the author chooses for Nettie and/or the others around her to speak, the author portrays them with a colloquial and slight formal style of diction. Based on the diction, I believe the intended audience is any individual who can relate to the characters. The

The characteristics of the poetic mode that are presented in the documentary Lessons of Darkness directed by Werner Herzog are: poetic fragmentation, non-specific characters, and knowledge comes from feeling. Throughout the whole film there are long takes of landscapes, bodies of water, burning fires, and firefighters putting out fires. All the shots are just a series of fragments used to represent the Gulf War aftermath. The fragments are “breaking up space and time into multiple perspectives, denying

In chapter two of Native American Oralcy Interpretations of Indigenous Thought, the narrator analysis the myth metaphors and meaning in the narrative “The Boy Who Could Not Understand.” He starts by describing how different types of writers interpret and write traditional native folklore. After this the narrator tells the story of “The Boy Who Could Not Understand” and compares his analysis of the story to Parkers analysis. This chapter talks about how important Oralcy and Primary Oralcy are and

In my poem “Invincible” I wrote from the perspective of someone who has struggled with self-love but was able to find themself. They’re giving advice to a close friend about why self-love is important and how everyone deserves it. Throughout the poem, I use specific diction to develop an inspirational and hopeful tone. I do this by using symbols, connecting to the reader, and portraying self-love as powerful. An example of how I used diction to create a hopeful tone can be found where I used the

Edgar Lee Masters used vivid imagery and figurative language to help explain the feelings of a woman named Lucinda Matlock. She had a hard life by never complained. Lucinda gave birth to twelve children and eight of them passed before she turned sixty. One of Edgar’s examples of striking language is when he explained how Lucinda shouted to the wooded hills, and sung to the green valleys. (Line 15) We chose this as striking language because it used visual and kinesthetic imagery. This line means

Throughout the autobiographical narrative written by Gary Soto, many different literary elements are used to recreate the experience of his guilty six-year old self. Different elements such as contrast, repetition, pacing, diction, and imagery. Soto narrates this story as a young boy at a time when he seems to be young and foolish, Soto foolmaking mistakes, but at the same time hoping to learn from them. Soto uses each of these devices to convey different occurrences in the narrative. Contrast is

The Other Wes Moore is an autobiographical novel that is told from the heart of author, Wes Moore, while showing an illustrative purpose. One section of his book, in the epilogue, shows Moore diving into a more personal note on the roller coaster of a life he has lived, thus far. He uses his tone and diction to reflect on how the environment people grow up in can influence the ways they act and to explain that the people closest to you can change the opportunities you may have later in life, while

Isabel Allende’s short story “Clarisa” records the story of a woman, reverenced by the people of her community and who is kind without exception, even to those who wished her harm. “Clarisa gave everything she owned to the needy, ”(Allende 36). Her generous nature and adherence to helping others depicts Clarisa as the model of affection and compassion, who gives absolutely everything she owns and even spends “ the last cent of her dowry and inheritance” (Allende 434). For this very reason others

marriage and gender roles. In the case of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wants readers to see how living a life that radiates love and promotes happiness is better than being selfish and living a miserable life, and how past circumstances heavily influence who we are as people. The two messages both authors want readers to take away from the story, although different, achieve the takeaway through the utilization first person narration. Furthermore, the narration in these stories also consists

enough to develop a noble story, in these few pages an author can pack a tight punch that will leave one in awe, disgust, or utter sadness. Whether there is a moral of the story or it is simply for the reader’s enjoyment, each author has their own style of conveying a message through their work in very diverse ways. Through Flannery O’Connor and Chuck Palahniuk’s works we can see this very evidently. Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find is a short story about a family who is shot and killed