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    tragedy and personal conflicts. Within his pieces of literature he uses his creative writing style abilities by making readers feel emotional effects such as horror and sorrow. With all of his past conflicts‚ I believe it made him a lot better at connecting to readers in other ways certain authors couldn’t. Poe’s style is characterized by his use of sound imagery‚ irony‚ and repeated elements. In Poe’s style of writing he uses sound imagery to help make emotional effects. In “The Raven” Poe uses the

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    English 1302-319 Symbolisms in “The Chrysanthemums” John Steinbeck’s The Chrysanthemums is a story about a woman named Elisa Allen. She is a beautiful‚ smart‚ and strong woman who is unsatisfied with her present circumstances despite living a married life. The lack of intimacy and children in the marriage is the cause of frustration that she feels. Cultivating the chrysanthemums becomes an outlet for her frustration and disappointment. Steinbeck uses the chrysanthemums to symbolize Elisa’s femininity

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    to amaze me how I’ve changed within the course of this year. Especially when I consider my writing style and how that has changed. From high school to completing my first year of college‚ a lot has happened as far as my writing style goes and those changes will help me to be a more professional writer in the future. My writing style in high school was formal and followed a strict template for writing research papers and all other written assignments. Many of my teachers then left no wiggle room

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    Curley’s wife is the only woman from the novel of mice and men written by John Steinbeck. She is the wife of the boss’s son Curley. She has no friends besides Curley as the live on a ranch with all of the workers who are all men. She tries to speak to men throughout the novel but none of them want anything to do with her. She is lonely and bored because of this. She is a very pretty and young woman‚ when she is first mentioned in the novel when talking to George and Lennie in the bunk house ‘she

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    Hemingway vs. Faulkner Throughout time‚ individual authors have crafted varying writing styles that portray the authors themselves and helps the reader to better understand the tone of the piece. During the early twentieth century‚ the upcoming of a new America created many talented writers that varied drastically in style.  An author may choose to write in a realistic manor‚ such as Ernest Hemingway or William Faulkner.  From the post Civil War era in which Faulkner was accustomed‚ to the early

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    Bryttany Tidwell 11th Advanced English C. Ellison 01 December 2015 Hemingway’s Simple Writing Styles in The Old Man and the Sea and A Farwell to Arms For several years multiple readers have tackled the bigger meaning of Ernest Hemingway in the novels The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway’s style of writing has been elaborated on multiple times by multiple people. A closer look into The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms reveal how Hemingway uses simple English and gives

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    Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style The short story writer which I have chosen to research is Edgar Allen Poe. After reading one of his works in class‚ I realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics have different views on Poe ’s writing style‚ I think that Harold Bloom summed it up best when he said‚ "Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives. " ( 7) For me‚ this is done

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    Throughout her multitude of works‚ author Flannery O’Connor employs the primary use a descriptive style of writing‚ with her works illustrating religion. Religion makes an appearance throughout her works‚ but for all the wrong reasons. Without context‚ religion is often seen as a positive‚ but under the hands of O’Connor‚ religion is depicted as being manipulated and used for crime. This can be visualized within her three works‚ “A Good Man is Hard to Find‚” “The Life You Save May Be Your Own‚” and

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    Kino‚ the main character in the novel "The Pearl" is an example of a common man faced with the daily concerns and dangers of living in poverty. From the start to the end of the novel Kino develops drastically. At the beginning of the novel he is shown to be a kind and loyal husband but as the story continues he becomes an ’animal‚’ a man whom is driven by greed and willing do anything for money. When the story begins‚ Kino is a man perfectly content with his situation despite the lack of material

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    GCSE English – Writing to Describe Every year‚ the descriptive writing task in Section B of Paper 1 is where students lose the most marks in their English exam. It is therefore a good idea to practice descriptive writing so that this does not happen to you. Furthermore‚ quality descriptive writing can be used as coursework. You are therefore improving your coursework folder at the same time as you are learning how to impress the examiner. Below is a selection of descriptive writing tasks from past

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