The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, Coral Island by R.M. ... Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and the feature film Cast Away directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. ... Firstly the use of characters and symbolism in Lord of the Flies, secondly camera work and dialogue in Cast Away, and finally plot and first-person narration in Treasure Island. ... The second, and equally important, technique used by Golding is that of symbolism. ... There are countless examples of symbolism throughout the story and the meanings of each dep...

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Whereas readers know how Ginny is feeling they can only assume what the other characters are thinking from technical devices used by the author such as symbolism, imagery and implied meanings (connotations). ... Symbolism, as a literary technique is also used in creating meaning in the short story. ... This symbolism is quite similar to the underlying message conveyed in the story told by Mrs Aldonza to the girls at the birthday party. ... "In that shining white islands of white streets and white houses, the churches were filled with golden treasures..."....

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• Grade Level: High School

The determination and slave labour which the Warden enforces, in her eagerness to find the treasure', typifies greed and it's consumption of her character. ... The reader is also persuaded to believe in fate, believing that if Stanley had not been hit' by the trainers he would never have met Zero nor have found his great- great grandfather's treasure. ... For example, there are many literary devices used in Holes' such as, irony, symbolism, humour, euphemisms, metaphors, and the use of mystery and the techniques used to convey warnings or clues to the reader. ...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The determination and slave labour which the Warden enforces, in her eagerness to find the treasure', typifies greed and it's consumption of her character. ... The reader is also persuaded to believe in fate, believing that if Stanley had not been hit' by the trainers he would never have met Zero nor have found his great- great grandfather's treasure. ... For example, there are many literary devices used in Holes' such as, irony, symbolism, humour, euphemisms, metaphors, and the use of mystery and the techniques used to convey warnings or clues to the reader. ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The epic begins in Troy (in Asia Minor, across the Aegean Sea from modern-day Greece) and its shores in the Aegean Sea to the island of the Lotus-eaters; Polyphemus, a Cyclops; to the island of King Aeolus, God of the Wind; island of the beautiful sorceress, Circe; to the island of Persephone- Erebus- an earthly doorway to the underworld; to the island of the Sun; the place of the nymph Calypso; and the Kingdom of the Phaeacians. ... When Odysseus saw a flock in that island, he decided to search the island for supplies. ... Later, Odysseus stopped over an island to get some water. ... As they ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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