Literary technique

In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching god, by Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston uses different stylistic techniques to help speak about both the reflection and departure from the ideas of the Harlem Renaissance. Hurston's writing can be shown to reflect the Harlem Renaissance because Janie Crawford, the main character in Hurston's novel, is trying to search for her true identity in life going through different aspects of relationship problems leading up to what determines her strive to be the woman she

strategies to help you accomplish the tasks today. Today's lesson objective is: Students will compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics as well as their use of additional literary elements. Let’s take a moment to think about the learning skills you’ll need to successfully complete this lesson. You have lots of practice with comparing and contrasting.

This short story was really straight forward until it got to the end, where it had a twist, which made me pick the story to write on. Kate Chopin did an outstanding job using symbolism, but this novel is not for all ages, if you know what I mean. How the setting, tone and theme all tie all together is what makes the story different from the others. Is the storm literal or symbolic? This particular question really stood out and really made me think and analysis the story. For example, the question

Poe used the literary device of setting to create a dark, threatening tone by using time of day, elapsed time, man made geography, and population. Poe used time of day when he wrote “And this I did for seven long nights, every night just at midnight, but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.”(538:2) Also, in (539:3) it says,“Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from

In her memoir, Hold Still, Sally Mann chronicles her own life and the life story of her photographic work. While many aspects of the memoir were compelling to me, I was struck by how visual Mann’s writing felt. Her utilization of rich imagery made the experience of reading her memoir feel distinctly like looking through a collection of her photos. It is clear that regardless of the medium she is employing, Mann is motivated by the same forces. Both her photographs and her writing articulate a strong

narrator had a disagreement on how Sonny was living his life and the decisions he had made, and the disagreement ended when Sonny and the narrator go to a jazz club and the narrator sees who Sonny really is and his potential. There are at least three literary devices the author uses to make

are also evident like in this sentence “That boy put up a fight like a welter-weight cinnamon bear; but, at last, we got him down in the bottom of the buggy and drove away.” this sentence shows the reader how much of a fight the boy put up. Another literary device that the author uses is foreshadowing, especially in the beginning when he says “It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you.” after it goes on to say that the kidnappers have a plan to capture a rich man's kid and get a ransom

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” ― Edgar Allan Poe "Edgar Allan Poe Quotes." Edgar Allan Poe Quotes (Author of The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings). Web. 08 Apr. 2016.” Edgar Allen Poe is one of the most mysterious and well known American poets of all time. Edgar was born on January 19, 1809 and passed away mysteriously on October 7, 1849. “Edgar Allan Poe Museum : Poe's life, legacy, and Works : Richmond, Virginia (http://www.poemuseum.org). Edgar

McCarthy's unique style with dialgos of not using quotation marks implying possibly that in that life one’s mind and what he speaks has not much difference also making the author have his own unique syntax. Furthermore, he also uses the simile the literary device where the boy is “mute as a stone.” signifying his silent horror of the event where a life was sacrificed/murdered for his

In chapter 12 of Veronica Roth’s Divergent, precise words were used to help the reader connect with the text. In this chapter, Tris wakes up for another day of training to find a paintball gun and some ammo at the foot of her bed. Later in the day, the initiates hop on a train to the paintball arena to play some traditional games. One example of this is on page 130 when Tris is getting back from a fight where she was bruised and scratched all over her body, “I crawl across my mattress, and heave