Alexander uses various aspects of the language to represent herself‚ "a woman cracked by multiple migrations." The diction‚ imagery‚ and figurative terms that Alexander utilizes create a clear picture for the reader of a woman who is questioning her life and what might have been. There is an extended metaphor that runs throughout the piece that compares Alexander to something fragile and cracked. Words like "splintered"‚ "shards" and "fractured" imply glass and all of its frailty. She
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Free Read #4 Cassandra Clare analyzes the style of literature throughout her book‚ City of Bones‚ using several techniques to convey the meaning of the story. Imagery‚ diction‚ syntax‚ attitude‚ literary elements‚ and organization are all included to explain the textual details. By using these literary techniques‚ the author allows readers to become more interested in the book; allowing the book to come to life. The New York Times Bestseller‚ City of Bones‚ has a fast-moving pace keeping the readers
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Literary Terms (General) —AP I. Literary Types—names for the various types of literary expression: 1. Allegory: a tale in which characters‚ actions‚ or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. Allegorical stories can also be viewed as extended or continued metaphors. 2. Allusion: a casual or brief reference to a person‚ place‚ event‚ or literary work that a writer expects the reader to recognize but doesn’t fully develop. The writer hopes to clarify or enhance the subject that
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the AP Stylebook‚ which word correctly completes the sentence? The company lost ____ assets. A) Its B) It’s Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 Correct Answer(s): A 2. Which is correct‚ according to AP Style? A) The dealership sold over 75 vehicles during the clearance sale. B) The dealership sold more than 75 vehicles during the clearance sale. C) Either is correct. Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 Correct Answer(s): B 3. Which of the following is correct‚ according to the AP Stylebook
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The Lens of Style and Personality About 200 people hike the Appalachian Trail every year; blind men‚ old men‚ fat men‚ young men‚ American men‚ foreign men‚ and women. However‚ each experience brings a new flavor‚ not because the hikers had different experiences‚ but because each tells the experience through a different lens: the lens of style and personality. In his hilarious book‚ A Walk In the Woods‚ Bill Bryson narrates his adventures as he challenged himself to hike the Appalachian Trail with
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or tone that he or she wishes to convey is in fact conveyed to the reader. Harper Lee obviously realizes this‚ for in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ [New York: Warner‚ 1982] 278) she wisely selects a distinctive style to relate the moving story of a young child discovering harsh truths regarding human nature <br> <br>The predominant stylistic element Miss Lee uses is her diction and choice of sentence length. At the beginning of the selection‚ the sentences are
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different styles of narrators in Novel. According to him‚ they vary from the first-person report-narrator to the multiple letter writers of epistolary novels‚ to outside-observer narrators of reflexive novels like Don Quixote and Tom Jones‚ to the once intimate and impersonal narrator of Madame Bovary‚ to the “stream-of-consciousness” narrators‚ on to the intensely objective/subjective obsessional narrators of Robbe-Grillet. What interests Stam is the fact that these different styles of narration
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The Great Style of Gatsby Chapter 7 "Her voice is full of money‚" he said suddenly. (pg. 127) Nick constantly observed Daisy’s character --which was clearly a challenge-- since he could never put her into words. Once Gatsby described her as full of money‚ this statement agreed with the previous claims made by Nick. She was youthful‚ rich in nature‚ and loved by all for her bright personality. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses slight apostrophe and hyperbole to describe her voice being full of money‚ when
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Grammar as Rhetoric and Style The Appositive An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that tells the reader something about a nearby noun or pronoun. In each sentence below‚ the appositive is underlined. The italics shows the noun or pronoun that the appositive details. It turned out that one of the top students‚ Denny Davies‚ had learned of this rule. Kennedy‚ a wiry fifty-nine-year-old who has a stern buzz cut‚ was in 1997 the principal of Sarasota High School. In 1981‚ two professors
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poetry style analyses Have you ever wondered how singers make their songs or how the songwriters write the songs? Well I have and I’m going to tell you the literary devices that the singer Wale uses that all other poets singers and songwriters use. Wale uses metaphor‚ imagery‚ and rhyme in his songs to almost make them come alive in your mind. The first literary device that i will be going over is Metaphor ( a metaphor is someone say one is something that they are not) Wale uses metaphor in Lotus
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