Both authors use the six characteristics wisely and their details help the reader identify with what is happening in the story and to realize that both authors are Transcendentalists. Amazingly enough the two authors depicted above are known as the two best Transcendentalists in our history. They use all six of the characteristics with expertise and great skill, their awesomeskills paint a vivid picture for the reader of their stories. ... Thus, Emerson and Thoreau are the tw...

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Henry is a well known author of numerous short stories. ... In the story "The Gift of the Magi" the very first line displays some of the power that money had in this authors story. ... Henry combines many of these to make some great stories. ...

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One editor says, "This atmospheric horror story is a great example of how an author such as Poe gets straight to the point. " Unlike "The Fall of the House of Usher " "The Black Cat " is written from the perspective of the narrator. ...

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The irony in the short story The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe, is evident in the three following ways: why the author used it, how the author used it, and examples of irony from the story. ... Edgar Allan Poe writes stories in which there is always a chilling feeling and irony is the perfect literary device to use in this instance because it goes in great coordination with foreshadowing. Just because irony goes well with foreshadowing, it still needs a skill of a good author to make it work well and sound good. ... With such subtleness the author can tell a rather shockin...

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The one author that this reader leans to is Lillian Ross" Picture. ... Both authors take an inside look at the subject and give it their all. ... She does a great job at short stories with her attention to remaining focused on the subject. Lillian Ross" Picture is a great view into the world of movie making. ... Didion and Ross both have a great outlook on the subjects they are writing about. ...

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The author has great credibility and experience in her field and can easily back up her statements. ... The author uses great paragraph structure within her work to show a progression from one subject to the next in each section. ... The author's credibility is determined in a few ways throughout this text. ... This powerful statement had a great emotional affect. ... Another error would be that the author seems to change her stance in the last paragraph. ...

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While considered among the best American authors today, F. ... (SC.EDU) Inheriting his name from another famous American, a distant cousin who authored the Star Spangled Banner, F. ... While in Paris Fitzgerald wrote and published The Great Gatsby, his most recognized and regarded work. In Paris Fitzgerald began work on a book of American authors in Paris. ... The Great Gatsby was not a sensational seller, even though it received critical acclaim. ...

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The great Gatsby Vs. ... He grew up in a household where money was not something that was of great abundance. ... One of his most famous novels was The Great Gatsby. ... Much like the other authors of his time, all of Fitzgerald's works had a similar theme while still each maintaining its own uniqueness. ... At the end of The Great Gatsby an unsuspected killer kills Gatsby. ...

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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a short story in which it could see reflected the influence of the author's life. ... Although the story is fictional, the setting, the characters and the context which are developed are a portrayal of the time and place in which the author grew up. ... Since there is a connection between "A Rose for Emily" story and the Author, the author's biography is going to be briefly reviewed in this work. ... Teresa Towner in her book "The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner" states that Faulkner's great grandfather, cal...

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Both authors of "A Christmas Memory" and "Pancakes" utilize similar literary techniques, but the authors convey different themes by doing so. ... Both authors use the element of mood effectively, but they utilize it convey different types of the element into their story. ... Another element that both authors utilize is imagery. ... A great black stove is its main feature; but there is also a big round table and a fireplace with two rocking chairs placed in front of it. ... By using imagery in the story, both authors are able to utilize the same element of imagery to develop...

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The main characters in both the stories show great dignity and hope for a better future. ... The Characters are however different in profession, for Nathaniel finds it profitable to be a beggar, which shows his lack of commitment, whilst Brille shows great pride and effort for he is a politician. Both of the authors show a clear, but different, point of view in both of the stories. ... In the second story Bessie tries to show a great sense of pride and confidence among the black community, even though they were treated so harshly. ... The authors do also show some different feelings of opi...

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Even though you may believe that lotteries are for winning great prizes the author gives subtle hints that the black lottery box represents evil. The author immediately starts out by making the box sound old and creepy. ... In the next line the author explain how bad of condition the box is in. ...

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The short story "Open Boat" is a great example of an autobiographical fiction. An autobiographical fiction is when an author writes about a true occurrence that happened to him or her but puts a bit of fictional twist on it. ... Autobiographical fiction is a great way for an author to tell a story about human life, which is usually a mediocre event or one that might be common and turn it into a fascinating or thought provoking tale. Additionally, the author can express his or her own feelings and relay a message through this style of writing. ... This sentence was a great foreshadowing lin...

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When reading Lahiri's stories you cannot help but imagine the author herself living through the events on the pages. ... But the similarities between the life of author and story do not stop there. ... "A Temporary Matter" is truly a reflection of the author's life onto the page. ... Das and the author. ... The fact that Jhumpa Lahiri's life is so closely associated with the text add to great detail to which the stories possess and create a world for the reader that is vivid that you can imagine being there yourself, and such detail can only be achieved if the author was there ...

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There are two authors with two short stories that show excellent examples of irony. Saki, the author of, "The Interlopers", is very constructive with irony. ... What great irony! ... Richard Connell is also a great writer, when it comes to irony. ... Saki and Connell are just a few of the worlds short story authors, read others and look for irony in their writings too. ...

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A novel, story, drama, or poem is the expression of an author's imagination. ... The sentiment may be real, but the characters and incidents are the fruits of the author's imagination. And author and directors "as in the movies referred to above "often use "dramatic license" to distort history for dramatic effect. ... The Antagonist must have great power or status. Only by competing for the same goal, whether it is for the love of a man/woman or power, in the story do the Protagonist and Antagonist drive each other to great heights. ...

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It has been my observation, through years of avid reading, that a book or story written by one author can be very well done by itself; however, should the like author attempt to bring back characters from an old work into a new, the well-known characters of old become flat and lacking individuality. In addition, I have found that simply changing the point of view, from which a story is told, can ruin a work for an author. These aforementioned points have been great fears in my mind when it comes to my writing. ... The development is particularly effective in "Spotted Horses" because there a...

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Eudora Welty, the author of "A Worn Path", used most of her symbolism when hinting that it was Christmas time and using phrases that compare her long and grueling journey to life itself. ... The author makes it obvious that Phoenix is old. ... A candy cane is brought to mind when the author describes the thin cane Phoenix uses made from an umbrella. ... It shows how Christmas is a great time foe giving when the lady with the gifts ties Phoenix's shoe and the attendant in the hospital gives her a nickel. ...

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The author keeps the reader informed of the changes affecting the characters throughout the narrative through style. ... "The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion for all kinds of labor." " Rip would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound." ... Characterization occurs when the author draws an overall picture of the characters. ... The author uses the words a story to describe a character or imply the appearance of the characters through the text of the story. ... In "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving, the author excellently expressed the central idea of ...

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One of the first of these quotations comes when the author is describing Jelka, Jim Moore's wife. The author describes her as "a Jugo-Slav girl" ( ) and later states that "Jim was not proud of her foreign family, of her many brothers and sisters and cousins, but was delighted in her beauty" ( ). ... This quotation is later followed by another anti-feminist statement, which comes when the author is describing Jelka's lifestyle. ... By saying this the author is degrading all women by comparing them to animals as apposed to equals. ... The police did not even investigate to insure J...

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He was an author of supernatural stories, which were seen in both weird tradition and in American letters at large. ... Over time Bierce became so respected and feared as a critic, that he could "make or break" an aspiring author. ... Chambers, Lord Dunsany, and Lovecraft; and the influence that swept through these authors was in time felt by such modern writers of the weird as Carl Jacobi, Charles Beaumont, Rod Serling, among many others. His total influence can hardly be computed, for he wrote in that era when the horror tale was undergoing great development in the hands of a dozen well-kn...

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Stephen Crane is an author who has published this type of literature. Comparison and contrast of literary devices is used to show how ironic tone, graphic imagery, and heroism can create great compositions such as "War is Kind" and "A Mystery of Heroism". ... The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the Battle-God, great, and his Kingdom-A field where a thousand corpses lie." ... I"m sure that this man's actions could have been heroic before his death, but the author does not divulge that information. ...

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He goes on to name various authors and a fact that distinguish them from the rest. ... He states, "I consider this mutability of language a wise precaution of Providence for the benefit of the world at large, and of authors in particular" (133) to share his opinion about a certain topic with his audience. Throughout the sketch, Irving makes a point in writing about his beliefs towards literature and authors. ... This story, especially, has great imagery to make the reader feel the intensity of the scenes. ...

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Therefore her words and actions have a great meaning to him. ... Thus, through Mangan's sister we can see how the author develops the boy as a naive and immature character. ... In short, through the minor characters the author conveys a stronger image of the main character. ...

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The writer who summed up an era Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. He grew up with an alcoholic father and an adoring, intensely ambitious mother. Dissipate all Francis would grow up to be the writer who would sum up the Jazz Era with n...

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