Literary Terms Figures of speech are words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else. They always involve some sort of imaginative comparison between seemingly unlike things. Not meant to be taken literally, figurative language is used to produce images in a reader’s mind and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways. The most common examples of figurative language, or figures of speech, used in both prose and poetry, are simile, metaphor, and personification. Flashback is a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event.
Although numerous themes and specific techniques are used to do so, context and medium have a crucial role to play. By definition, context is the circumstances in which a text is created or set and medium is the method used to present the text. To begin with, we must look at the context of each text and examine its intricate values. The two texts have very different contexts. But what is more significant is the effect that context has.
The first essay written by Jaschik meets the criteria for literary nonfiction because it discusses the huge controversy of plagiarism and how it affects literature today. Mr. Murray explains how we need to be critical readers. Ondaatje's essay is creative and uses figurative language to give us a "sense of place" and a "sense of
Multicultural Literature Analysis Multicultural Literature Analysis Literature in itself is a widely diverse art form. While not physical, or truly visual in form of art, literature is art as an expression of oneself and a visual, by means of imagination, way into another life, time, person, etc. Multicultural literature expands the boundaries of diversity. Multicultural literature allows people from all cultures to get a glimpse into the lives, customs, thoughts and feelings of those from a culture potentially unknown to them. Reading multicultural literature is not merely for pleasure, it is also for knowledge and understanding.
Recognize the elements of appropriate literary genres. Focus a topic and formulate a critical/analytical thesis, focus, main point, or claim appropriate for an academic audience that analyzes literature – nonfiction and/or fiction. Use a variety of organizational strategies within a single paper to support a thesis, focus, main point, or claim. Interpret texts in a variety of cultural and historical contexts. Demonstrate an ability to use effective research techniques to find appropriate oral and/or written media such as books, articles, interviews, visuals, and government documents.
Imagery in Fiction Writing Authors often use imagery as a powerful tool for describing and delivering their main point in fiction writing. Imagery can hint at an underlying meaning, let the reader know character traits, describe the setting, and has a host of other uses. As such it is one of the most important literary devices. Two excellent examples of how to use imagery properly are Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”. In both of these stories the authors use imagery to help drive home their main points, although in a somewhat different manner.
An Analysis of Nonfiction English 125 An Analysis of Nonfiction Literature is defined as nonfiction when the story is based on factual information. Although the piece of literature is true to the author, there are many literary concepts that are used to paint a clear and concise picture for the reader. The author as well as the reader must use their imagination to get the most out of the literature that they read. In Salvation by Langston Hughes and Who Will Light Incense When Mother’s Gone by Andrew Lam, irony, and imagery are used vividly to express their thoughts and relay a message to the reader about what has happened to them in their childhood. Both of these pieces of literature speak to the essence of growing up and not understanding
In the attempt to capture truth in writing, writers and readers alike are cognisant of the artifice that occurs in the process of writing. This oxymoron; that truth and authenticity can result from artifice is the basis of the conflict that occurs between concepts of reality, truth and literary realism. The nature of fiction itself presents tension between truth and artifice: writers abide by the facets of literary realism, which has a “fidelity to the truth” (M.H. Abrams), and must create artifices to deliver meaning and create truth, utilising techniques of fiction such as metaphor, figures, imagery and dialogue which aren’t necessarily true. In order to create a sense of authenticity, Nam Le abides by verisimilitude in his short stories “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” and “Tehran Calling” in his collection The Boat.
Each author’s method in integrating the oral history may be different and, to some degree, inadequate, but the presence of oral accounts in their essays give voice to different perspectives of that time. It is evident, then, that altogether the oral history in each essay holds value and plays a significant role in the integrity of each argument. We must be careful, however, to fully accept the perspectives and arguments the author presents to us as definitively as any individual identity in any historical account, including the author, has the power to misinterpret and miscommunicate historical accounts accidently or
In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, irony is a vital literary component. He used the techniques of satire, irony, metaphor, and personification to skillfully make points in his writing as well as put his points across to the reader. He tends to describe his characters with these literal denotations in hopes that his readers will find deeper significance in them. He creatively uses these elements to broaden the reader’s point of view of the characters. The Canterbury Tales incorporate a range of attitudes towards life and literature, and are by turns satirical, elevated, pious, and comical.