In Thaler’s vignettes, she uses many of the same stylistic choices that Cisneros also uses including: not using quotation marks, similes, metaphors, italics, having a unique name for each vignette, personification, and also rhymes. In Thalers vignettes, one of the stylistic choices that she portrays is her use of unique titles. Each vignette has a new story and the titles are very interesting, making you want to read more.
In the vignettes, Thaler uses unique titles as a prominent stylistic choice. Thaler uses these particular titles to draw the reader in and make them want to indulge in reading more. One appealing example of how Thaler used this stylistic choice is when she explains “Our New Beginning,” as the title of her 3rd vignette. In this Vignette, Thaler states as her opening sentence, “It feels like everything happend just yesterday.” By just hearing the title, anyone can have a whole different perspective of what the vignette would be about. The title has to be exciting so that the reader will want to find the true meaning of the vignette deeping in the text.
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In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster states that there’s “... a certain set of patterns, codes, and rules that we can learn to use when we’re reading a piece of writing” (Foster 3). These patterns can be used to identify the true meaning of literature in a variety of ways. In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” several ideas can be represented with Foster’s claims. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” connections can be made to Foster’s second chapter, “Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion,” and his eighteenth chapter, “Is he Serious? And Other Ironies.”
An authors style defines itself as the way in which the author expresses themselves throughout the piece of literature. They express themselves through their word choice, word order, rhythm, imagery, sentence structure, figurative language, and literary devices. Sandra Cisneros’, “The House on Mango Street”, is a short story encompassing the events and thoughts of an un-named child narrator as they describe their family’s living arrangement. Sandra uses a distinct type of style throughout her writing which fits the short story well. On the other hand, William Carlos Williams’, “The Use of Force”, is a short story about a doctor’s visit to an unusual patients home. The stories have their own distinctive style which is unique to each but, there
Marks, Lester Jay. Thematic Design in the Novels of John Steinbeck. The Hague: Mouton, 1969.
The author uses short, simple sentences that manage to say a lot in a few words. The author also uses imagery. He also puts in his book references to historical events. These references increase the understanding and appreciation of Billy's story by suggesting historical and literary parallels to the personal events in his life. The novel does not have smooth transitions from one event to the next.
For example, when esperanza wants to describe what it’s like having to tote around her annoying sister, she sums up her loneliness by saying "Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor". By using such fluid and poetic writing, Sandra gives us a great mental image of how Esperanza is feeling. This helps us understand Esperanza more as a character and it once again sums up Esperanza’s feelings of loneliness. Sandra Cisneros writes in a very short and choppy way that makes reading her book very easy but still contains the same power in her sentences. For example, “There was a family. All were little. Their arms were little, and their hands were little, and their height was not tall, and their feet very small.” This quote is short and choppy, but still gets the point across. It helps us to understand what this family looks like and makes the sentences easy to read and understand. Also, Sandra’s writing style as in writing vignettes makes the book more powerful. The reader only knows certain points throughout the character life, and mostly those that change the character or effect them in some way. This makes it easier to see how the character changes throughout the book and which things affect the character the most. Esperanza's mom tells her to not "lay her [her neck] on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain" of marriage. This is a sample of a vignette and poses as a good example of a powerful sentence the author uses to give you a good mental
Author’s style is defined as the distinct literary manner that makes his or her expression of content unique from other authors; Katherine Anne Porter and Emily Dickinson have different styles that contribute to a better understanding of the themes of their work. In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” Porter uses the strea...
Another way the author develops his consistent style is in the way he describes certain images. For example, there are a few different occasions where his way of describing what he sees around him are similar to eachother in a way that they all make reference to the fact that the day is going by and it will soon reach dusk. Like when he said 'the soft dew of morning which had glistened and twinkled on the blades of grass which grew in clumps by the side of road quietly disappeared.'; This indicates that the day is going on. At another point in the story the author makes reference to the shadows saying that they have grown longer, which would indicate the sun was setting. Also, the author never exactly comes right out and says the obvious. He uses his descriptive ways to give you an idea of what is going on or happening. For example, he never exactly says that the man he encounters on the road is an old man. He just gives certain physical characteristics that would associate with an old man. I feel his reasoning for this was to also indicate that this man was not just old but a man of wisdom, which very often is associated with old age.
Style is a literary technique that authors use to reveal information about various aspects of the narrative. Style can be utilized as a way for the audience to read between the lines and unveil key information. Pejorative language expresses criticism and bad opinions. Flannery O'Connor's pejorative style is exhibited in many of her short stories. From the dialogue of a convict in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” to the thoughts of not so wise Hulga in “Good Country People” her pejorative style unveils the perceptions of characters.
In “The Garden of Forking Paths,” Borges utilizes a rather labyrinthine style of writing. The story itself takes many forking paths, similar to those one would encounter in a labyrinth, splitting off into various digressions. These digressions eventually are resolved and loose ends are neatly tied up. For example, amid pondering various outcomes and motives combined with seemingly random interjections, Yu Tsun suddenly contemplates how to escape Madden once and for all (Borges 121-122). Eventually the reader discovers that his wandering thoughts are far more central to the story than first expected. Besides weighted words, Borges references various texts throughout his stories, both real and imaginary. He occasionally employs multiple narrators, seen in cited texts or footnotes. Borges makes these fictitious works more realistic by alternating how they are employed. He sometimes references the same work in multiple footnotes or short stories, or in case of “The Garden of Forking Paths,” he intertwines a legitimate work, History of the First World War by Liddell Hart, with a fictional statement given by Yu Tsun, with the first two pages conveniently missing (Borges 119). These invented works combined with a multitude of other allusions throughout the story lead readers down different paths of a textual labyrinth. These labyrinthine writing styles that Borges created as well as his
Every writer has a style of writing that is unique to them. This literary element, style is the author’s personal way of describing, events, object and ideas. An author’s style is also comprised of his or her word choice (diction), sentence structure (syntax), sentence arrangement (organization) and figurative language (imagery). All those thing come together to create mood, image and meaning throughout the text. Similarities and differences in style can be established in the writings of nineteenth century British writer, Charles Dickens, and his French comrade, Guy de Maupassant. Both author’s diction is unbelievably comparable, but their imagery is far from being related. One of the many things Dickens is famous for is his extensive and detailed imagery, which can be seen in his classic short story “A Christmas Carol”. Maupassant’s imagery is in fact very concise and nonspecific, which can be seen in his short story “The Necklace. Both stories “A Christmas Carol” and “The Necklace” show various similarities and differences. But in the aspect of style, diction, both authors use formal and sophisticated word choice.
21. Names of long works—such as novels, a series (like the Peanuts, which I used in the sample LA), or movies—need to be in italics. Names of short works—such as short stories, articles, poems, or sitcoms—need to be in quotation marks. All of the works in this class are short works except for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Trifles, and Maus, so for the most part you will be using quotation marks.
Casey Weston’s vignette describes symptoms such as anxiety, fear, social isolation, heavy feelings of loneliness, extreme restlessness/irritability, feelings of overwhelming dread, and perceptions of low self-worth and bouts of crying. He also experienced somatic symptoms such as muscle tension, heart palpations, trembling/shaking, chest pain, increased heart rate, and difficulty breathing.
Edgar Allan Poe has a unique writing style that uses several different elements of literary structure. He uses intrigue vocabulary, repetition, and imagery to better capture the reader’s attention and place them in the story. Edgar Allan Poe’s style is dark, and his is mysterious style of writing appeals to emotion and drama. What might be Poe’s greatest fictitious stories are gothic tend to have the same recurring theme of either death, lost love, or both. His choice of word draws the reader in to engage them to understand the author’s message more clearly. Authors who have a vague short lexicon tend to not engage the reader as much.
2. I think the variety of Richard Ledeter’s illustrations, help show the reader that using short words in many different styles of writing can work successfully. When examining how famous writers like Shakespeare used small words and became
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.