Explore how your chosen short story uses the elements of narrative to [engage] you as the reader: Narrative elements are importantly employed and developed throughout a text to further engage and develop the ideas and issues behind a text to the reader. ... In order to do so, authors employ certain elements of narratives to further develop the reader's engagement and understanding of such a text. Through such techniques is the author able to engage the reader by drawing on the reader's context to further develop their conception of the issues and meanings presented in the text. ...

• Word Count: 631
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Miss Brill, a short story by Katherine Mansfield, the reader can identify Mansfield's view on Miss Brill through the literary techniques the author uses; narrative intrusion, subtlety, and limited omniscience. Narrative intrusion is the first technique used by Mansfield. ... Another literary technique Mansfield uses is limited omniscience. ... Mansfield, however, incorporates another view of Miss Brill using this technique. ... By using techniques such as narrative intrusion, limited omniscience and subtlety, Mansfield can manipulate her true attitude towards Miss Brill and make the ...

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Some criticisms of Citizen Kane include; its narrative structure is unduly complicated, its technique calls attention to itself and its intellectual content is superficial. ... While some people criticize this unusual structure as unduly complicated I think that the complexity of the narrative adds to the movie. ... Another Criticism of Citizen Kane is that the technique calls attention to itself. ...

• Word Count: 306
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay seeks to discover how Atkinson uses the past, footnotes, setting and her post modernist style as a technique in the treatment of time. The narrative is a common first person narrative, but at the same time, it is very unusual. ... This technique gives Ruby a more "knowing" voice that can see ahead of us but is still unable to share with us the withdrawn knowledge that she is trying to find out herself. ... Atkinson uses footnotes as another technique. ... In Behind the scenes at the museum, Atkinson is able to skilfully and originally bring her all her characters to life using...

• Word Count: 898
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

However, it does not, and it is probably due to the skills and techniques by which Lee used to tell her story. The narrative technique employed by Lee in this novel is the first person narrator stance with Jean Louise Finch's (the protagonist's) point of view. By definition, the first-person narrator technique refers to the method that is applied by having a major character relating his or her story. ... This is just one way of how the narrative techniques used by Lee raises the cognition level of her work. ... The structural unity provided by this narrative method has also kept...

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A 1st person narrative is no more, potentially, unreliable than any other kind of narrative technique (3rd person etc.). ... However, the first person narrative of "Enduring Love" cannot be stereotyped in this way. ... His narrative directly reflects that of scientists and the method in which they examine evidence. ... Joe introduces this overview of the buzzard suggesting that within his own narrative he is trying to be as unbiased as the buzzard would be, striving for the perfect narrative that sees and hears all. ... However, the first person narrative in "Enduring Love", though unreliabl...

• Word Count: 1247
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Employs a multiple narrator technique, it uses the varying voices and points of view of a number of characters to examine the life and character of Thomas Sutpen, a tragic figure who tries and fails to build a family dynasty in Yoknapatawpha County. ... The main story pieced together from the various narratives is interesting. ... The narrative structure throughout each chapter jumps back and forth between internal and external, back and forth between different characters' thoughts. Faulkner's use of narrative in Absalom, Absalom! ... is said to contain the most orig...

• Word Count: 498
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• Grade Level: High School

Good commentary must include: - Clear organization - Understanding of literary techniques - Alliteration - Metaphors - she is snow - Onomatopoeia - words that are spelt in a similar way to the sound - Allegory - narrative using symbols - Euphemism - cold slumber (death) - Similes - white as snow (figurative language as opposed to literal language) - Oxymoron - silent scream - Hyperbole - Visual imagery - Personification - the howling wind, dancing grass, smiling moon - Punctuation -Structure - paragraphs - Objectification - opposite of personification - standing like a statue ...

• Word Count: 757
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• Grade Level: High School

NARRATIVE STYLE AND STRUCTURE Told in retrospect, the novel is a first person narrative in chronological order of the events of the summer of 1922 with Gatsby's personal history revealed through various flashbacks spaced intermittently throughout the plot. ... Additionally, being selective with what was included in the plot by using the technique of delayed character revelation emphasises the theatrical quality of Gatsby's life and heightens his shroud of mystery. ... Additionally, juxtaposition is incorporated into the narrative style of the composer's language to manage th...

• Word Count: 756
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The effect of casualness is achieved mainly through the tone of the narrative: the use of the present tense in the opening lines, and short sentences like "No undergrowth". ... The cyclic pattern of the narrative gives a structural framework to the story in which very little actually happens. ... Even though "Drover's Wife- is set in one setting, Lawson uses techniques like anecdotes to capture audience's attentions. ... Henry Lawson uses many techniques in his short stories to captivate the reader's attention. ... In the short story, "Joe Wilson Courtship- by Henry Lawson, th...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Oates integrates plot devices from the opening scene using the technique, in medias res. ... The author even uses foreshadowing through Grace's thoughts of Harriet in this moment; She's mad, she's come to injure me (Oates 661) By connecting both the plot devices of exposition and suspense, Oates incorporates the flashback technique. ... Recalling her ex-roommates features, the prominent front teeth and blush of her skin (Oates 661) brings about the narrative device of exposition within the flashback. ... With this device, Oates is able to connect several of the Narrative t...

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Graham Greene, the author of the novel 'Brighton Rock' uses a variety of methods to create narrative interest in what can be described as 'bleak', 'depressing' or 'hopeless' material. Greene uses the idea of setting, characters, dialogue and language techniques such as juxtaposition, euphemism or contrast to create the narrative interest in the reader. ... The use of the setting allows to create narrative interest to present what might be considered to be bleak, depressing and hopeless. ... Greene uses the method juxtaposition between the characters ...

• Word Count: 1151
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate

There are important themes evident in the novel that are contributed with the help of the technique of narrative structure. In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... The circular narrative structure of Cloudstreet shows that novel begins at the present, moves onto the past and comes back to present. ...

• Word Count: 842
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

There are important themes evident in the novel that are contributed with the help of the technique of narrative structure. In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... The circular narrative structure of Cloudstreet shows that novel begins at the present, moves onto the past and comes back to present. ...

• Word Count: 842
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

There are important themes evident in the novel that are contributed with the help of the technique of narrative structure. In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... The circular narrative structure of Cloudstreet shows that novel begins at the present, moves onto the past and comes back to present. ...

• Word Count: 871
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Literary elements, which are literary devices and techniques used by the author to influence the structure, language, and narrative purpose of a selection, are used throughout the novel. ... While reading The Sun Also Rises, you will find out Hemingway used many techniques and different methods to influence the structure of his selection. ...

• Word Count: 659
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• Grade Level: High School

The conventions that are used, such as narrative conventions, characterisation and settings have been used in surprising ways by the author and the director. Both the film and novel employ techniques in an unusual way to engage the reader/viewer and portray the theme of redemption. ... Not only does Tsotsi neatly resolve its narrative with a redemptive conclusion that portrays a more hopeful humanity than would probably be the case in historical reality, it also adopts a genre that could become a vogue for representations of black South African experience, namely a black gangster genre....

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• Grade Level: High School

The narrative frame is no longer provided with "a god", which implies that is no longer governed by "the rule". ... He may inference that Douglas has altered the original manuscript "in old faded ink and in the most beautiful hand", or that the narrator in "the Prologue" is not telling the truth when explaining: "let me say here distinctly, to have done with it, that this narrative, from an exact transcript of my own made much later, is what I shall presently give". ... Then follow the technique of postponing and of ambiguity: "he had broken a thickness of ice, the formation of many a winter; ...

• Word Count: 2120
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Conflict Has Many Meanings Conflict has many meanings composers uses a variety of different techniques to represent different conflict in their texts, this is shown in the prose fiction "The catcher in the Rye" by J.D Salinger, the short story "Tri" by Frances Echin, the film "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" directed by Peter Jackson and the film, "Dead Poets Society" by Peter Weir. ... Salinger uses two important techniques to highlight the conflict in this film, one is the first person narrative form. ... Another technique Salinger uses is the reparative contrast betwe...

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The beginning of the short story, The Test, by Angelica Gibbs provokes the reader's attention through early descriptive lines like, "When they found the boulevard they found it crowded with cars headed for the beaches." (Pg 115) This enables the viewer to picture the scene of the beach and the crowd...

• Word Count: 1005
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• Grade Level: High School

He is careful not to create a mechanistic narrative, removing long discourse and making effective use of interrupting the plot with the use of asides. ... 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

He is careful not to create a mechanistic narrative, removing long discourse and making effective use of interrupting the plot with the use of asides. ... 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
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Analysis of Truman Capote and his Writing Style and Techniques Truman Capote's innovative and controversial techniques earned him celebrity status and fame as a professional author. ... The narrative deals with these concerns, and to that extent that is what the novel is about." ...

• Word Count: 2030
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School