* Last week we reflected on our writing‚ and this week we deal with some things related to the reading we will do in this class. The two primary components of this class are reading literature and then writing about literature‚ and knowing some of the literary devices and features will help you with both reading and writing about literature. * Before I provide my examples‚ I want to explain that literary devices (I call them conventions sometimes too) are like strategies. That is‚ authors of
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o The interplay between ages in Clay is similar to that in The Sisters because of the mentor/mentee type relationship between the older and younger generations. In The Sisters‚ the narrator is a young boy who frequently visited Father Flynn (a priest) to hang out until Father Flynn passed away. Father Flynn and the narrator spent a lot of time together‚ so much time that the narrator’s family members began to suspect ill behavior on part of Father Flynn because they felt the relationship between
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Karen Alkalay-Gut‚ in "Jury of Her Peers: The Importance of Trifles‚" also finds the gulf between male and female perceptions of judgment to be central to the play. Alkalay-Gut believes that the unfolding evidence not only unites the women‚ but highlights the division between "woman’s concept of justice‚" which entails "social" and "individual influences‚ together with the details that shaped the specific act‚" and "[t]he prevailing law [which] is general‚ and therefore . . . inapplicable to the
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Mercedes Villegas Eng.101.105 Everyone has friends‚ and usually they are people from all walks of life. Sometimes these friends are so alike that they seem to walk alike‚ talk alike‚ and have similar personalities. But others are so very different that it is an absolute wonder that they can even stand each other‚ let alone be friends. My two best friends are Raeann and Mike. They share some similar traits such as compassion‚ loyalty‚ and a great sense of humor. I love them for their similarities
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The short pieces Monday and Tuesday by Virginia Woolf and A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway are both proper examples of Modernist writing. Generally‚ the two stories contain very ambiguous‚ or seemingly non-existent‚ themes‚ which complement their pieces. The authors both achieve this by not really having an obvious protagonist‚ having this character be without motive or a subjective opinion of their situation‚ and finishing the piece with unresolved ending and meaning. Virginia Woolf’s
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The essay‚ "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts by Bruce Catton‚ compares two hugely diverse American Generals‚ who both shared one unwavering trait. The first of the men‚ Robert E. Lee‚ was an aristocrat stuck in the notions of the noble wealthy‚ who had no wish for change. He presumed that there should be an imbalance within America’s social anatomy. The other General‚ Ulysses S. Grant‚ had desires for America that were the complete opposite of Lee’s. Grant was a man who developed the harsh way
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play “Trifles‚” by Susan Glaspell‚ the story takes place at the home of Mr. Wright a man who was murdered. Two man accompanied by two women visit the murder scene. Both genders are able to see the murder scene in different aspects. The women are able to notice things in the house that the men are not. This causes the men to not really see what happened to the murder victim. The main theme on “Trifles” is how different women and men can be. During the play it shows how both genders can be in the
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The play Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell is a murder mystery. Critic "Gary A. Richardson says that in Trifles‚ Glaspell developed a new structure for her action." (Kirszner and Mandell 1121) Richardson claims that "Trifles is carefully crafted to match Glaspell’s subject matter- the action meanders‚ without a clearly delineated beginning‚ middle‚ or end.." (qtd. in Kirszner and Mandell 1121) Upon closer inspect we can clearly see that Glaspell does indeed have a beginning‚ middle and end‚ and the action
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Heather Brown Professor Evermind English 1302 2 March 2012 The Irony in Trifles The play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell is set in the nineteenth century. A trifle is a thing of little value or importance‚ so in the play Trifles the irony of the story is quite humorous. In this time period women were not treated as equals‚ men believed women did not have as much intellect as themselves‚ and treated them accordingly. With this in mind the irony of the play revolves around how much better
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501 - Compare and Contrast the Mega Tools Total Quality Management (TQM)- “Any quality management system that addresses all areas of an organization‚ emphasizes customer satisfaction‚ and uses continuous improvement methods and tools.” TQM is largely focused on customer satisfaction throughout the entire process‚ therefore organization. TQM and QFD are quite similar with the strong customer focus. TQM and benchmarking share the most contrast as benchmarking focuses on improving quality by taking
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