In the “All My Life” description by John Freyer, he used a combination of both objective and subjective description. Freyer chose an out of the box writing style using minimal objective details and subjective details to create short stories for his listings. Freyer lists simple facts about the items for example the Sugar Hill Gang album, “Chic's Good Times was on still on the Charts in 1979”. The simple fact describes how popular the album had been even after its creation. On the other hand, his subjective material creates a vivid picture for buyers to relate to.…
Could you imagine reading about the taste of cheddar and sour cream ruffles for three full pages? Or discovering how a man legally exploits patients on their death beds for money? Authors Alex Halberstadt and Matt Levine are both capable of delivering amazing stories despite having vast differences in their writing styles. Alex Halberstadt reaches his audience through his description and comparison and contrast rhetorical modes. While Matt Levine shines when using cause and effect.…
Mark Twain’s “Two Views of the Mississippi” shows his perspective of the beauty of the Mississippi River and how his view changes over time. Twain narrates that he is a riverboat pilot and he informs the reader of the beauty that he encounters on the river. He explains in a exceedingly descriptive and poignant manner. He slowly switches around and indicates that his view of the river has altered the more time he spent on the river. The beauty that he sees diminishes and all he can do is lambaste the river.…
Foundation Before Density In Scott McCloud’s graphic essay, “Show & Tell”, McCloud uses an appreciable combination of words and images interchangeably to convey clear and comprehensible thoughts, He establishes better, more understood, literature by depicting images directly alongside pieces of text. Evidently, pictures are an associative mechanism that enables newcomer and experienced readers to make visual connections to text they normally would not conclude to by only analyzing and interpreting words (McCloud). Moreover, aside from images allowing readers to make connections, illustrations are particularly crucial components in literary works because they can convey coherent messages all on their own. In all, visual depictions in literature…
When she sees the moths in the bathroom, the author writes, “…a dorsal curve of thorax and abdomen, and a smooth pair of cerci by which I knew his name” (4). By showing her knowledge in the earwig’ anatomy, Dillard enforces her credibility for when she describes the burning of the moth later on. The fact that the author also mentions that she teaches a writing class also makes the reader believe she is a credible source and knows what she is talking about from experience. Secondly, Dillard uses logos by discussing topic that logically make sense. By continually mentions that she is alone and using the example of Rimbaud, the reader can logically see that being a writing get in the way of other aspect of a person’s life, by giving two real-life examples of its impact.…
Analysis Essay Can you imagine living in a time when you were judged and treated differently due to your skin color? In If Beale Street Could Talk,the author, James Baldwin, addresses this issue. The book is a mixture of a love story and the issue of racism , injustice, and prejudices. The book takes place in New York, from the viewpoint of a young black women, Tish, who is deeply in love with a young artists, Fonny, who has been arrested for a crime he has not committed. When it is discovered that Tish is pregnant, the families are supportive of the couple along with the drive to get Fonny out of jail.…
An edge was hidden in the voice, like a piece of metal slowly marking glass.” In this example, the author is using descriptions to help the reader understand the voice of the specials and how that could have affected Tally’s outlook. These examples show that the overall style of the author makes it so that the reader can share these experiences with Tally. The author makes this possible by using a very descriptive style as shown in this chapter. The authors descriptive style sets a mood or tone throughout the book because he has a certain style that includes the readers in the journey.…
In the narrative Mile Pequeno wrote he includes many strategies. One being specifying on a scene, including descriptive words to keep the setting clear and giving the reader a visual picture. An example of this being, “Dad kept the set next to the TV stand and, most nights, we’d take it down from the entertainment center and put it on the coffee table in front of the sofa, where we sat side by side and played chess while halfway paying attention to the television.” Classification brings all the characteristics together to describe someone or something. The author uses specific detail such as, “round belly, round face, and big brown eyes.…
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a short story by Flannery O’Connor that keeps you on your feet as you continue reading but leaves in shock as you close the story. O’Connor was born in 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. She then proceeded life through both high school and college where she obtained her Master of Fine Arts Degree at the University of Iowa in 1947 (362). “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a page turner yet a mind boggling short story. It leaves you asking all of these questions as to why some of the events even took place.…
His well-defined descriptions direct the reader into…
Layers of Fiction Symbolism is represented by levels of pragmatic and figurative meaning. As an example, in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman incorporates the very wallpaper to represent this idea. The wallpaper displays more than just symbolism; it also shows the time period and theme of the story. These elements of fiction are also supported by the first person narration in helping the reader understand and analyze the text. This combination helps to show the relationships of the protagonist, overall setting, and theme of the story.…
Many authors use description in their stories to create an affect on the reader such as Alice walker in “The Flowers” and Liam O'Flaherty in “The Sniper” but Gary Paulsen's story, “The Dogs Could Teach me”, demonstrated description the finest. Gary Paulsen's use of description in his story “The Dogs Could Teach Me”, had a huge impact on the reader in detail, compared to Alice Walker’s story. In his short story it states, “The trail crossed the stream directly at the top of a small frozen waterfall with about a twenty foot drop. Later, I saw the beauty of it, the falling lobes of blue ice that had grown as the water froze and re-froze, layering on itself,” which gives an excellent detailed description of what his view is in the story. His detailed…
For scenario 1 I was debating whether the paragraph was a description or an explanation. I knew right away that it was not an argument because it was not trying to prove anything. The first sentence says “there are many similarities between police and correctional staff in the use-of-force abuses, the code silence, and feeling or isolation”. If this paragraph was an explanation then the rest of the paragraph would go on and state-specific definitions and explanation, explaining how and why there are similarities between police and correctional staff.…
For example, when David Foster Wallace talks about the checkout line, we can visualize it in some aspects, but words can only do so much. “This is Water” portrays all the different kind of…
An additional example would be the sexual culture of this time period and region. Unlike Twain, who used racial titles to describe different areas and the culture of that region’s inhabitants. Harte, not to say was more qualified, due to the fact that he lived in this region his entire life, he could describe the sexual culture that was occurring during this time. Harte displayed this more risky culture throughout his book, Miggles (Reidhead, 352).The author of Norton Anthology American Literature book described this as a challenge of it time, for American sexual and gender behaviors (Reidhead, 352). During this time, California was growing in industry and its towns were flourishing in popular culture.…