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Chantel Wares Mrs. Joyner English Honors 2 11 August 2015 “One Of These Days” and “It’s all Political” Throughout the short story, “One of These Days” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Aureilo worked as a dentist in his own office with no degree. He sat there working on false teeth and his son interrupted informing Aureilo that the mayor needs his tooth pulled now. The dentist did not want to pull the tooth, even if the mayor would have shot him, he did not want to do it. The dentist gave in and began

In the autobiography, biography, and memoir “A Work In Progress” by Connor Franta, the author allows his readers to understand his life, step by step, through writing his text from his point of view. By presenting his text from his point of view, it not only allows readers to understand his life, step by step, but also to feel what it was like for Connor as he prospered. For example, one crucial moment of Franta’s life began when he was only six years old, and he first began talking in front of a

Have you ever heard the word Juxtaposition? Sounds different doesn’t it. The meaning of it is crazy and makes a lot of sense. A juxtaposition is the comparison of one thing to another. For an example light to darkness. It is put in ways or forms that may or may not be noticeable or easy to find. Juxtapositions are used in many books and novels that are popular or well known. The play by William Shakespeare “Romeo and Juliet” uses the juxtaposition of light and darkness repetitively. One thing about

In the excerpt of the Prologue from The Death Cure, the author James Dashner uses language to create mood, tone, and theme through imagery and the vocabulary he chooses. A way James Dashner uses imagery is when he describes how Teresa is feeling while look at Thomas laying on the operating table. The omniscient narrator describes how Thomas looks, what he is wearing. With the words, “He lay on the operating table, his eyes closed, chest rising and falling with soft, even breaths. Already dressed

Atwood wrote Oryx and Crake in third person. With the story being written in third person, it allows the readers to know what all the characters are thinking and feeling. Even though the story is written in third person, the readers are only aware of Jimmy/Snowman’s thoughts and emotions. This point of view is helpful because most of the story is flashbacks. The book goes from Jimmy and the world before the plague broke out to Snowman where the world is destroyed. Language is an interesting part

Gary Soto’s Seventh Grade and Singer’s The Cat Who Thought are both written in third person. While they share this, both stories differ because the theme of Seventh Grade is to be yourself, while the theme of The Cat Who Thought is the inside matters, the outside does not. To start off, Seventh Grade and The Cat Who Thought are both written in third person. Seventh Grade is about a boy named Victor who tries to impress his crush, Teresa, by acting like someone he isn’t. This story is written in

Many authors encompass a character’s perspective to allow for a better understanding of the story's themes. By doing this, it is possible to analyze the text differently with each significant character rather than analyzing the text generically. This makes it more convenient to understand the story’s themes because the story provides numerous examples of how the themes uniquely apply to each character. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a perfect example of how this comes into play.

A sense of imagery is showcased to begin the paragraph by giving a description of “The Tower.” O’Connor says The Tower is made of Stucco and part wood. Stucco, being a plaster mixed with lime and sand, gives the reader an outlook that this probably looks like a building built in the early 1900’s. Now understanding what the building looks like O’Connor gets into who Red Sammy Butts is. Red Sammy Butts, is classified as a fat man who is in charge of The Tower. That description, “fat” immediately

2. List at least three examples of diction in the text that add to the overall tone. Explain how each word contributes to the emotional power of the piece, hospitality, the author uses this word to attempt to create a positive feeling in the story to show that they want hospitality inside the cyclopes home. Exquisite, the author uses this word to give a positive feeling in the story. . Savages, this word contributes to the emotional power of the piece, because it’s telling the reader what these

Literary devices are often used to develop a character in an author’s work. Joyce Carol Oates’s novel We Were the Mulvaneys is no different. Oates employs both diction and point of view as devices to effectively reveal the maturity of Judd Mulvaney. Diction is an employed literary device in the development of Judd Mulvaney as a mature character through the use of sophisticated word selection. Oates’s word usage changes the tone and emotions in the passage, and shows the maturity of Judd. The character