The literary device, author’s voice, is the individual writing style of an author. It is a combination of diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text. There are many examples of how author’s voice affects the meaning of a text in the classic book, Night, a book about the life and thoughts of a young Jewish boy going through the Holocaust, as well as in “A Spring Morning”, a short story about the results of having a kid while Germany is in control of Poland. These examples include: when the author is foreshadowing, when the author is writing about someone is being told to obey, and when the author is writing about a loved one dying.
The first time I noticed how the author’s voice affected the meaning of the text is when an author uses foreshadowing. This occurs in chapter 1 of Night, “Well, there you are, you see! What did we tell you? You wouldn’t believe us. There they are your Germans! What do you think of them? Where is their famous cruelty”(Wiesel 7)? This is a great example of how the meaning of the text is affected by author’s voice. The author is using rhetorical questions, questions that are asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply. He also uses foreshadowing (to show or indicate beforehand) in order to help give us an idea of the meaning of the text. The meaning of the text in the quote is to show how the optimists of Sighet believed that the Germans were good and how they rubbed it in the face of the people that thought the Germans were bad and sinister. It is also to give us a hint at what the future holds. Another example of how author’s voice affects the meaning of a text while using foreshadowing is in the first paragraph of “A S...
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...g away. He walked over slowly, and those few steps seemed endless. He bent down, picked up the child, stroked the tangle of blonde hair” (Fink 61). The author made the text feel slow, causing the meaning of the text to hit us deeper and to openly show us how cruel and evil people can be. The reaction to the death is sadness, which is much different than the reaction Elie has to his father’s death, which is relieve.
The literary device, author’s voice, affects the meaning of a text in almost everything you read. This is especially true for the classic book Night as well as the short story “ A Spring Morning”. Some of the examples of when text is affected by the author’s voice include: when the author is foreshadowing, when the author is writing about someone is being told to obey what another person is saying, and when the author is writing about a loved one dying.
Many times, when an author writes a story, he will use different techniques to influence the way that the reader absorbs the work. Writers use both paratactic style and syntactic style. These two styles contrast each other greatly, but on the same term, they greatly compliment one another. In the book The Things They Carried, O'Brien uses both of these styles. In this essay, syntactic and paratactic style will be examined in the story "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong". Examples in the story will be examined and described according to the two styles of writing. The syntactic style will be focused on more intensely however, because of the way that it effects the sections of the story that will be discussed. It will also show that the historical context of the story effects the styles of writing.
decides to make it unique. In this part of the narrative, the author uses the literary element of
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...bers that he has a father and he forgot about him in the mob. “I knew he was running out of strength, close to death, and yet I had abandoned him” (p.106). Elie feels guilty for leaving his father when he needed Elie the most. After he wakes up he goes looking for his father. He feels as if he is responsible for taking care of his father. Elie replaces his faith with obligation to his father to help keep him going thought out the holocaust.
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The opinions of the narrator can be seen throughout the book. The readers saw a glimpse of the narrator’s opinions about the settings, situations and the characters. However, the narrator’s attitude throughout the book changes over time. In the beginning of the book, the readers got information about the narrator feeling guilt towards his writing career due to his Puritan ancestors. In the passage, the narrator has some judgmental attitude towards the Puritan community.
often do not reflect on is the sound of the prose. When reading this particular
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In his dramatic monologue, Robert Browning uses irony, diction, and imagery to achieve a haunting effect.
...erary devices; Contrastingly, the second point of view is to become sympathetic with the characters and indulge in the culture of the text, which is most effective when used on foreign or historical stories. In addition, the author stresses the importance of irony as it is a profound literary device that is hard to find for some and usually brings about divine truth, the theme. He then brings various elements of previous chapters to demonstrate ironic situations such as showing betrayal followed by dining together which he has shown.
In Modernist literature, much like painting, there is experimentation with form: narration style, tone, plot line. Instead of having Kurtz tell his story, or Marlow recite the tale of his journey, the actual narrator in the Heart of Darkness is an unknown passenger on the Nellie.