Authors often use narrative techniques to place the reader in the story’s world. Because it helps readers visualize the worlds in which they are reading, it is also an important part of literary works. Joan Didion’s nonfiction book “After Life,” …
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Superhuman powers and capes are the hallmark of heroes. Some single dads carry a small bag of legal papers. While heroes are able to save their citizens from evil villains, what if it was you and the people around? Atticus …
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Staples uses structure as a cause and effect
Staples’s Choice of Words: Diction
Imagery: Staples uses Vision
Irony: Staples uses Sarcasm
Brent Staples, an African American man was born in 1951. He received his first Bachelor’s Degree …
Humans are a species that has mastered exaggerating survival instincts and incorporating them into daily life. Humans have been continuously improving their timeline by implementing new ideas, from calculus and gravitational time.
Despite these drastic lifestyle changes, there is one …
The opening line of Alfred Tennyson’s novel “The Lotos-Eaters”, Odysseus gives the call to courage to his men. As they continue on their path towards their destination, Odysseus explains that it is another unavoidable detour rather than their final destination. …
In Americo Paredes’s novel “George Washington Gomez,” the main character George Washington “Gualinto” Gomez is a young Mexican-American man, growing up in Jonesville-on-the-Grande, Texas. Gualinto experiences many hardships and triumphs as he grows up in Texas’ early 1900’s. Gualinto is …
Aravind Adiga in The White Tiger is the protagonist. Although he confesses to horrendous crimes, he is still engaging. His language and thoughts as well as his deeds reflect his original good nature. Balram falls prey to corruption and immorality …
WillaCather has created an artistic ending to A Lost Lady that Marian Forrester is a survivor. Irony is a powerful tool because it allows readers to question the origin of the novel’s title. This leads to the revelation that Marian …
Celie instantly falls in love with Shug as soon as she meets her. She even labels her mother “She’s more beautiful than my mama”. It is clear that Shug is very important to Celie, and she often compares her with …
Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” describes the horrors experienced during World War I through soldiers’ eyes. Owen uses brutal imagery to show how soldiers came to be unaware of the horrors. This was done in protest at England’s …