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    Name : Huriyatul Fikri Subject : Introduction of Literary Study NPM : 2009.111.008 Story of an Hour Style Diction (choice of words) • The words mostly polysyllabic • The words use formal(literary) • The words has connotative meaning e.g. in paragraph 8. • The words are abstract e.g. in paragraph 1 • The words are pleasant sounding Sentences Structure • Sentence length is medium‚ mostly more than 5 words‚ the sentence length is very effective it is appropriate with

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    and how to save it. In the Energy Story‚ the author talks about how we use energy and how many things require energy and use a lot of it.They also talk about where it was first discovered‚ where it comes from‚ and how it works. The next story Short Circuit tells us how to do an experiment and explains what causes it and what is happening. The final story Conducting Solutions talks to us about ions and and how some elements do not contain any ions. If an element does not have any ions they do not

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    can have a devastating effect on families and people. The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty tells the story of a sniper‚ who is unnamed‚ kills others and fights for his life during a war in Ireland. The story clearly shows how destructive a war can be to a human being as well as a country. It also uses narrative structure to highlight the theme. The narrative structure used in the story is like any other narrative structure. Its conflict is the unnamed sniper surviving to not get killed. When he lit a cigarette

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    The Story of an Hour vs. the Yellow Wallpaper "The Yellow Wallpaper‚" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ and "The Story of an Hour‚" by Kate Chopin‚ are stories written in the late 1800’s. Women in these days were repressed and did not have the freedom to go and do as they pleased. Both stories were also written from a feminist point of view. The women in these stories are similar as well as different in several ways. Kate Chopin ’s "The Story of an Hour" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s "The Yellow

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    In Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour‚” there’s tons of different ironic pieces and symbols throughout the excerpt. These symbols have a deeper meaning to the story than what meets the eye. Some of these symbols are the mentioning of Mrs. Mallard’s troubled heart. Her troubled heart plays a major role as the story take place. Mrs. Mallard staring out of the window where a sense of renewal revealing her knew found independent and freedom. Lastly the events in the story were leading her to find her own

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    “A Wagner Matinee” and “The Story of an Hour” On the surface‚ “A Wagner Matinee” and “The Story of an Hour” seem like completely different stories‚ with a dissimilar plot and unlike settings. “A Wagner Matinee” is a story about the effects and hardships of living on the Great Plains‚ and the sustaining power of music on the human spirit‚ while “The Story of an Hour” expresses the constraints of marriage in the 19th century. However‚ after thoroughly reading both stories‚ one can observe several similarities

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    Chopin has expressed feminine freedom in two of her short stories: "The Storm" and "Story of an Hour". She was the breakthrough author for female independence and human sexuality. Through these two short stories‚ Chopin describes the lives of two women who discover their freedom in times where society does not accept women as equal to men. "The Storm" relates love and marriage as a prevention for free full blown passion. "Story of an Hour" relates love and marriage to unhappiness and repression.

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    Today i will be writing a compare and contrast paper on two short stories‚ “Story of an hour” and “The interlopers”. The first paragraph will be on the story and the characters. The second paragraph will be about some similarities in the two. The third will be some differences in the two. I hope you can grab something from this. Let’s get started. So the first story is my least favorite story. The story is about this old lady where she discovers that her husband died. She goes to her room‚ could

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    In this essay‚ I will compare character development‚ and contrast the plots in “The Story of an Hour” and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. I will examine the similarities of the protagonists on their pursuit to physical and emotional freedom‚ and the setting of which each story takes place. For example‚ Mrs. Mallard feels restrained in her marriage‚ but senses freedom in her brief becoming of a widow‚ and the narrator in the yellow wallpaper feels trapped in a mansion where she is forced to recover‚ but feels

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    has a literary style that is dependent on techniques such as Irony‚ Juxtaposition‚ and Symbolism to bring this short story to life and leave an impact on the reader. Through these literary devices Kate Chopin is able to add emphasis on her on beliefs and attitudes that alter the perception on female roles in the text and at the time this short story was composed. The Story of an Hour is engulfed in one giant juxtaposition after the other. “There were patches of blue sky…above the other in the west

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