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Aware Of The Fact End Of The Story
2,152 words... part, uses an allegory as the literary theme in The Masque of the Red Death. I do not see the story as one intended to scare or keep the reader in suspense, however, more to leave the reader with a message concerning death, and trying to prevent the inevitable. Very little description is used throughout the story, excluding the description the most important roles in the story; the seven rooms, and the Red Death. I believe this is written the way it is in order to keep the reader focused on ...
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Point Of View Tale Heart
1,265 wordsHorror and suspense-filled movies, books, and stories are Americas favorite form of entertainment. One of the most famous American writers is Edgar Allen Poe who wrote the two famous stories The Tell- Tale Heart and The Black Cat. In the The Tell- Tale Heart and The Black Cat narrative and imagery is used to express the main characters eerie sense of evil. Both stories lack moral sentiment yet describe conscience. They also make one tremble with fear and think with suspense. The Tell- Tale Heart...
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E E Cummings Dream Vision
1,570 wordsUpon looking at e. e. cummings poem, in Just-, perhaps, two features immediately become apparent: the use of white space between some words and lines, and the multiple use of a single word supporting an entire line. To a lesser degree, the poems visual also features the boys and girls names joined together as though they were each one, and the capitalization of the m in balloon Man towards the poems end. All these features contribute to how the poem will be read, and when the poem is read, the s...
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How Plot Setting And Characters Influence Readers Response
894 wordsThe writer of a fiction text uses plot, setting and characters to create imagery and influence the reader's response to how the author wishes the reader to perceive a situation. This can be done through many methods, which include detailed descriptions of any settings, detail of weather, characters stereotypical of society and colour association. In the novel "Lord of the Flies" careful attention is payed to the way the in depth descriptions of the island was used to create imagery and persuade ...
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Played An Important Role Wrote This Book
1,400 words... ood at writing that she just does it so naturally and wonderfully that it doesnt seemed forced or unnatural. These to plots are so interesting; I wish she had gone into more detail with each one! To Kill a Mockingbird Test Question 5 When you write a book, you should try to use a variety of literary techniques to make your book or story interesting. Harper Lee used almost every single one when she wrote, To Kill a Mockingbird. She used humor, suspense, foreshadowing, dialect, flashback and i...
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Songs Of Innocence Style Of Writing
1,553 wordsAs a child Blake had no formal schooling. He was apprenticed at the age of fourteen by engraver James Basic. In 1779 he began studies at The Royal Academy of Arts, but it was as a journeyman engraver that he was to make his living. When Blake was engraving his own designs, the general public envied him because they were not as creative as he was. Most of Blakes support came from a small group of artists and friends. Throughout his life booksellers employed Blake to engrave illustrations for a wi...
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Act 3 Scene 2 Scene 2 Line
892 wordsPersuasion The evil that men do lives after them, / the good is oft interred with their bones (Act 3, Scene 2, Line 76). Simply put, after a mans death, only the evil that he did is remembered; the good is often forgotten. However, Antony's persuasive speech at Caesars funeral is one to be remembered. After Brutus oration, the plebeians thought Caesar was a tyrant and that Brutus did right to kill him. Antony convinces the plebeians that Caesars death was unmerited, and that the conspirators sho...
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Past Present And Future Point Of View
1,456 wordsShirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery", ironically gives the lottery a bad meaning. The lottery in this story is used for a public stoning, contrary to the first thing that comes to a reader's mind when they think of winning the lottery; a big sum of money. The reader sees both literal and metaphorical meaning of this story because for one it shows for face value what the entire story is about, and hidden behind it is the notion of the scapegoat being picked like a lottery number. The sett...
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Bram Stoker Gothic Horror
988 wordsIn 1897, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was published in Great Britain. It was one of many Gothic horror novels of the day and, although popular, wasn't considered to be meaningful or timeless in any way. Yet, over a century later, the book has never gone out of print. Its title character, Count Dracula, is the quintessential vampire of Western literature and has inspired more movies than any novel. "Dracula" is sufficiently multi-faceted that writers and directors of film have been able to adapt it fo...
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Reader Get Inside Letting A Reader Get Inside Wells
1,019 wordsFirstly, dramatic tension is a literary device designed to provoke fear, suspense or excitement in a reader. Both Bradbury and Wells use it in their respective texts however they do not use it in identical ways. Many similarities can be drawn between the texts but there are crucial differences in the use of this device that are not so evident. Characterisation is used by Bradbury to bring many different profiles to the reader we have the emotional bordering on hysterical Francine, Helen who appe...
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Unanswered Questions Red Room
1,027 words... y mysterious. He sustains this feeling throughout the story through the use of many literary devices such as again the use of unanswered or unanswerable questions that in this context we get the feeling that the story itself is an unanswerable question or a mystery with no end which gives suspense in a reader as this is magnified by more specific devices, such as Bradbury's final cliff-hanger, Behind her in the living room, someone cleared his throat. The device is yet another unanswered que...
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Makes The Story Mallard
335 wordsThe use of irony makes stories enjoyable to read. Stories with irony keeps readers interested and in suspense. The use of irony Kate Chopin uses in the short story? The Story of an Hour? keeps readers attached to the story and lets readers understand Mrs. Mallard? s true feelings about her husband. The way Mrs. Mallard expresses her emotions towards her husband makes the story likable. Her character traits and the way Chopin puts the ironic twist into the story keeps you interested. What I liked...
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First Person Narrative Hardy
2,912 wordsTess of the d? Urbervilles Oral: Structure, point of view and narrative techniques in Tess of the d? Urbervilles. Ok well this isn? t really an essay as such it? s a an oral that I had to give on Tess, but still it took ages and I guess I could be kind of helpful. -veronica Narrative techniques Chance and coincidence, symbolizes the forces working against Tess. Coincidence as a means to an end Irony- social laws brought into account with the natural law. Ironies are also paralleled by separate i...
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Good And Evil Bram Stoker
1,410 wordsWhere Dracula Stoker v. s Coppola Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Imagination is the force that keeps human desires alive. It is a state that allows someone to give up repression and indulge into temptation. Where the conscious mind is a state of composed and rational behaviour, imagination becomes the unconscious setting into a world of countless fantasies where one does not need to worry about the consequences. However, civilization is built on the fact...
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Edgar Allan Poe C S Lewis
2,428 wordsEdgar Allan Poe Many authors have made great contributions to the world of literature. One of these is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as the father of the American short story, as well as the father of the detective story. But who was Edgar Allan Poe? What was the man himself actually like? These questions may be answered in part, but the whole truth of Edgar Allan Poe s life can never be known for sure, and maybe this is exactly how he wanted it. The brilliance of his work, however is indisputab...
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Falls In Love English Patient
2,153 wordsThe English Patient, directed by Anthony Minghella, is a romantic, melodramatic film which defines the art of cinematography. The internal and external rhythms, lighting, camera angles, lenses, music, dialogue, and editing are displayed in a way which conveys the meanings and themes to the viewer in such a clear and efficient manner. Due to this fine exhibition, it is of the belief that film schools should use this piece of artwork as a guide to students who wish to learn what cinematography act...
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Mission Impossible Ii Modern Spy Film Hunt
995 wordsMission Impossible II: The Modern Spy Film In a film genre filled with heavily accented hero s, fancy cars, beautiful women, and plot distracting action scene s, Mission Impossible II breaks away to stand out as a modern reincarnation of the past spy / action films. Tom Cruise returns to play Ethan Hunt, who is a mercenary working for an underground international agency. He has been assigned to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose, played by Douglas Scott, from destroying the world. Along with Cruis...
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H G Wells War Of The Worlds
2,115 wordsIn History, many writers have tried to touch on stories of science fiction, but were not too successful. One man though, by the name of Herbert George Wells has been considered by some to be the father of modern science fiction. (GeoCities. com) H. G. Wells as some may call him, have had various books, and stories that has made him very famous in the great book world around the nation, as far as modern science fiction goes. Wells best know books include, " The Time Machine" , " Th...
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Georg And Ulrich Men
361 wordsRobert Than 10 / 3 / 96 English Mod 3 The Interlopers plot analysis. Sakis novella, The Interlopers, explores the intricacies of friendship and rivalry. The story takes place in a European forest one night during the winter. The setting of the story is analogous to the plot; the trees have to bind together for warmth to brave the fierce winter, the same way Ulrich and George have to work together to survive. The exposition does a wonderful job of building suspense by telling of the feud between ...
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Characters Of The Play Iv Ii
593 wordsIt has been said that Iago, despite his scheming behavior and complete manipulation of others, is seen by the audience as the most interesting and vibrant character in Othello. One reason for this is because the audience is never quite sure what to expect next. Because Iago is a great manipulator, he successfully keeps the audience in suspense. He is also very deceiving and cannot be trusted, unbeknownst to the other characters of the play. One manner in which Iago keeps the audience in suspense...
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