In the novel, The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway the literary elements of plot, setting, and theme are strongly presented. ... Theme is the meaning, moral message, or didactic purpose portrayed by the author. While writing The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway focused on many different literary elements, but Hemingway mainly focused on the literary elements of plot, setting, and theme. ... Ernest Hemingway strongly presented the literary element of theme in The Sun Also Rises. ... Ernest Hemingway strongly presented the literary elements of plot, setting, and theme in The Sun Also Ri...

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• Grade Level: High School

The various literary elements each contribute considerably to work's overall effect as wished to be presented by the author. ... The circumstances of the life of the narrator also present several themes, thus making this element Salinger's literary focus. ... These meanings are clearly themes. Theme is used most effectively by J.D. ... Although these aspects of the composition may lend themselves to other literary elements, they primarily play a vital role in depicting the book's various themes. ...

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Compare and Contrast The authors of Certain Night and In a Grove articulate the theme and effect in the story by the use of literary devices, such as characterization, setting/atmosphere, and point of view. Even though Ting Ling and Ryunosuke Akutagawa use the same literary devices, the outcome of the effect on the story is not quite the same while the theme is the same. ... The characterizations used by both authors create a theme, the humans pride, which joins the two stories together. ... Characterization allows the character in the story to have a personality and in this case both stories...

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Isolation or loneliness is one of the main themes in the story. ... The narrator highlights this theme using imagery in describing nature. ... The second important theme is Sylvia's need for freedom. The heron symbolises this theme as it is a bird, which can fly. ... The author has successfully employed these literary techniques of concrete imagery and symbolism to enrich the plot and our understanding of the central characters. ...

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Both novels shared two similar themes: the pursuit of happiness and self-actualization. These themes had to be dealt with tenderly in an intolerant, white-culture society. ... By using these two themes, both Hurston and Ellison took a dramatic leap of faith. These themes add the uniqueness and non-conformism of the stories themselves. ... By using characterization, theme, diction and other literary devices, Ellison and Hurston created two enduring novels about life's struggles and rewards that will be read for many centuries to come....

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• Grade Level: High School

The appropriate approach used for this graduating paper is the objective approach as presented by Abrams in his book A Glossary of Literary Terms, as quoted in the following: Objective criticism approaches the work as something which stands free from the poet, audience, and environing world. It describes literary products as a self-sufficient objevt, to be judged and analyzed by "intrinsic" criteria such as complexity, coherence, equilibrium, integrity, and the interrelation component elements (1971:37). ... It means that it covers the intrinsic elements of the work such as characte...

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Setting: Another Country takes place in Harlem, France, Greenwich Village and other locales throughout numerous incidents in this literary work. ... Literary Style: According to Langston Hughes, "Baldwin uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing....The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought." ... Theme: The theme Another Country conveys is lucid: People must witness the world with incontestable viewpoints. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Forster later became a member of the Bloomsbury Group that discussed literary and artistic issues. ... His use of characters and their development and his story lines all seem to be the same and have the same theme. ... The use of the same character traits is most likely part of the fact that all of Forster's themes seem to remain constant. "Forster's three major themes are: salvation through love, deficiency of traditional Christianity, and repressiveness of English culture." ... This overuse of these themes is the major criticism of Forster. ...

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I have used the vocabulary of literary analysis such as: Direct and indirect characterization, setting, plot, theme and conflict. ... I have use some of the vocabulary of literary analysis but not enough to be specific. ... I have not used the vocabulary of literary analysis. ...

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In the play "Macbeth," one of Shakespeare's greatest literary works, similar themes are woven throughout the plot of each character's storyline. Macduff and Macbeth are no exception. Even though Macbeth and Macduff share many of the same qualities - bravery, hunger for power, etc. - their distinct d...

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This literary genius authored numerous plays and sonnets, captivating his diverse audiences with both comedy and tragedy, although the latter category has been identified as his point of particular strength. ... These main themes were outlined by a man named Aristotle, author of the book Poetics. ...

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Literary Analysis Discuss the theme of madness in the play. What does it mean to "go mad" and who fits that defenition? Madness plays a large role throughout this thorough play from Shakespeare, from small notions that anger one another to killing each other, all associated to a sole anger li...

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The literary elements of plot development, characterisation, setting and themes, combined with the characteristics of the text, allow the novel to conform to and challenge the classical approach of detective fiction while exploring interesting ideas about power, corruption and life's facades. ... Another example of Day's use of the setting to get across key themes gives an insight into the criminal underbelly which will feature heavily in the story, while also describing the scene. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bryony Tallis is the younger sister whose literary skills are often belittled by her older sister Celia. ... The usual themes of truth and honor are touched upon in this novel, but each new theme ushers in personal growth of the characters, especially Briony. Some of the themes include imagination and of the effects that time has on an event. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Death, taking the role of the antagonist as a supernatural force of natural, is usually portrayed as a negative theme or character because the embers of our being rests within his hand but, as the story states early on, he is the most just. ...

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Her drive for success sparked a new literary classic, as well as a successful movie, produced just four years after the release of her book. ... Throughout the novel, Judith Guest illustrates several different themes. ... Another theme in the novel is atonement. ...

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As in any great literary work, both accounts engage the mind in such a way as to find a suitable explanation for their behaviors and their feelings. ... The theme of both stories is obviously the concept of one seeing and coming into contact with their own personage. ...

• Word Count: 1660
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate