Ambrose Bierce uses a particular piece of writing skills in his story. He goes out of order to show his main point in the story. By using flashbacks and by having his dreams going on throughout the story help us comprehend more clearly. How does the story truly go, what came first? How did Ambrose Bierce set up the short story?
Famous literary critic and author Rebecca West encompassed this mentality as she said, “I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.” Simply put to write is to know, therefore writing is a form of expression used to manifest our thoughts on to paper. According to ideas of Socrates, if knowledge and wisdom are possessed by the individual, he in continuing knows himself. A good writer can be differentiated from others, based upon his willingness to go against what is expected and push the envelope. The only way to obtain this confidence in life and in one’s writing is to develop this way of thinking, believing that the majority is wrong, and resisting “common nonsense.” The best writing comes from a piece of work that makes one think, that makes one question his own knowledge. Socrates conceived the notion that everyone has the ability to reflect upon their own life and see their world through only their
Dale Disney Professor Pucciarelli English Composition: Section 64 21 September 2011 FICTION OR DESCRIPTION There are various techniques to write and share stories. Which technique is best to use seems to be subjective. In both Joan Didion’s essay “On Keeping a Notebook” and Patricia Hampl’s essay “The Dark Art of Description” illustrates this fact clearly. While Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions, personal anecdotes, and imaginary facts to record her life experiences, Patricia Hampl uses imagery and vignettes in her writings, but based on the fact that Patricia Hampl uses less falsehoods in her stories, her style of writing is more appealing to the reader. Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions in her notebook to engage readers into the story of her notebook writings.
2) Analyze the author’s writing style and manner in which a writer chooses among different strategies to address an issue and an audience. How does the style reveal the writer’s personality or voice, and where does it also show how she or he sees the audience of the writing? The writing style should reveal the choices the writer makes in syntactical structures, diction, tone, mood, vocabulary, and figures of thought. The general writing style of the book is a story narrated by a bystander (Death), who’s only involved a couple of times, not even realizing the connection in one instance (p 317, when he comes for Max Vandenburg, but Max fights him off) until later. It’s not narrated in an objective, deadpan sense, but it’s not quite totally casual either – a sort of warm seriousness, like giving an account of something to an interested audience, or writing a memoir.
Analyzing the writer’s tone includes: - The use of irony - The use of humor - The vocabulary used+ word classes -> help us to establish the style/the level of the family - Stylistic analyze -> formality - The use of direct speech - The use of similes and metaphors - The use of hyperbole=exaggerate Quotations: Statement/point/main point To be able to analyze the writers tone, and the tone in the text “Me talk pretty one day” I would have to take look at the above-mentioned characteristic of how to analyze the tone. Is the writer using humor, or irony? Is the writer using a formal language, or is he more informal and how is his vocabulary. Furthermore the tone depends on how the writer is using similes and metaphors. In the text “Me talk pretty one day” the tone is informal.
Consider the suggestions below. * the value of truth/ truth and perspective * human needs and relationships * the need for control/ stability * the nature of difference * communication * acceptance Activity Aim: * To develop your understanding of the key ideas/ issues in the novel * To make connections between the key ideas and the techniques and events used to shape your understanding of these ideas The themes below are just a few of many possible suggestions. You might choose to phrase the wording of the theme differently, or to add your own. Theme | Events/ content from the text that develop this theme | Relevant quote | Techniques used to shape/ develop meaning | Conclusions you can draw/ your response to the representation of this theme | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Setting Aim: •To understand how different settings are represented in the novel •To appreciate the distinctive characteristics of setting in the novel The novel is set in two, very different locations.
Characterize attitude using solid tone vocabulary. Look for Speaker's attitude toward self, other characters, and the subject, Attitudes of characters other than the speaker; Poet's attitude toward speaker, other characters, subject, and finally toward the reader. V. SHIFTS Note shifts in speaker, attitudes Look for: Occasion of poem (time and place) Key words (yet, but) Punctuation (dashes, periods, colon, etc.) Stanza divisions Changes in line and/or stanza length Irony (sometimes irony hides shifts) Effect of structure on meaning VI. TITLE Examine the title again, this time on an interpretive level.
Literary Analysis: Using Elements of Literature Students are asked to write literary analysis essays because this type of assignment encourages you to think about how and why a poem, short story, novel, or play was written. To successfully analyze literature, you’ll need to remember that authors make specific choices for particular reasons. Your essay should point out the author’s choices and attempt to explain their significance. Another way to look at a literary analysis is to consider a piece of literature from your own perspective. Rather than thinking about the author’s intentions, you can develop an argument based on any single term (or combination of terms) listed below.
It is an argument and the job of the writer is to persuade the reader to share the same point of view. This writing starts with a strong position on a topic. Evidence should be used and reasons should be given for the position. Another important thing to address in the writing is opposing views. Illustration An illustration is a writing pattern which uses examples to show, explain, or prove a point.
The in-class presentation of Balzac’s Pere Goriot emphasized the importance of “intertextuality” to this novel. Balzac’s work has been compared to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Milton’s Paradise Lost as well as Goetha’s Faust. How does Balzac stage the struggle between good and evil in the conflict between Eugene de Rastignac and Vautrin? Your essay should demonstrate that you have some familiarity with the plot of the novel through Pere Goriot, Part Three, and should briefly discuss at least one canonical work to which Balzac’s novel has been compared. Balzac’s novel shares a lot of characteristics with Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.