Reader

"The Writer" by Richard Wilbur expresses sound patters, figurative language and tone to develop the theme that leaves an abiding impressing on the reader. In this poem the speaker is the father of ta teenage girl. The father is thinking about a time when a starling flew inside his daughter’s room. He watched the bird as it desperately tried to escape. The man watched through the crack of the door, how the bird kept flying and failing to succeed each attempt. Finally the little starling escaped

story as Mrs. Turpin perceives the situation and the people surrounding her. Mrs. Turpin perceives herself as a spiritual, grateful, hard-working, and respectable woman; however, thanks to the point of view, the reader is able to identify Mrs. Turpin’s true personality because the reader is only able to comprehend the way Mrs. Turpin thinks. As Mrs. Turpin walks into the waiting room, she carefully examines and categorizes the people inside into social classes mentioning that “on the bottom of the

Thurber creates suspense for the reader as Mr. Martin is portrayed as unusual for buying a pack of cigarettes in the most crowded place. The story’s suspense is displayed as when “… [he] was generally known that [he] did not smoke...”(Thurber 1). By letting the reader in on this anomaly allows the reader to experience suspense and the reader is already thinking this all has to be part of Martin’s meticulous plan to kill Barrows. In this short story, the reader is introduced with

help the readers to relate to the characters in stories. For instance, Sandra Cisneros in her short story “Eleven” and O. Henry in his short story “The Skylight Room” effectively utilize more than one point of view in their stories to connect the readers with the characters. In “Eleven” Rachel, a young girl, describes how her teacher forced her to wear somebody else’s sweater on her birthday. Through the application of first and second person point of view, Cisneros creates in the readers a feeling

aspects of temptation through the use of powerful diction and emotion in the carefully structured form of her poem. The title of this poem, “Siren Song”, is significant to the poem as it provides the reader its speaker. The title introduces the speaker being a siren, in the process, warning the reader about deceit in the poem. She continues by addressing that the song as one that “everyone would like to

strategies are like while being used and what the reader may ask, or get out of, a certain excerpt. Even though Haas and Flower do not mention George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, or even metaphors, in their article, I will be using metaphors to get a better understanding of what these reading strategies are like. Lakoff and Johnson’s analytical tools and ideas about metaphors (, seen in Metaphors We Live By, help me, and others,

people want to be like them? What are celebrities actually like? Facing these tough questions, Ty Burr in his essay “The Faces in the Mirror” forces readers to question their own answers. By explaining the history of celebrities and the worship of them, he gives readers a wealth of knowledge. Wisely, Burr immediately establishes his credibility so that readers know they can trust his educated point of view. His essay is full of strong logic. However, it lacks a substantial amount of hardcore facts. Furthermore

successful reader, a child must be able to decode the individual words on the page and must be able to comprehend the text” (McNamara, 2007). To read effectively pick a subject that will be interesting, try to figure out

different, the question is how. Most of the times authors have a reason to convey such messages, and how the messages are delivered is up to the author as well. The author uses the form, it’s aesthetics to send the readers an image; what kind of literature it is. The authors also send the readers a blatant message, the message is sent through the text of the literature. Through the text on the literature the author portrays purpose, and with the form of the

be a writer.” Speaking about books, he contradicts that statement by later saying, “I can’t say that reading it made me want to be a writer”. It is evident that Salter is rather building up his stance towards the reader by using personal examples as a means to try and persuade the reader. He mentions his positive experience with reading books and despite sixty years passing by, can still recall lines from that book. The author also speaks on an emotional topic such as death to put into perspective