- Motif - an idea or a theme that recurs throughout a play, story or poem - Setting - Paradox - idea that cannot be understood but has a deeper meaning alienation Ability to explain author's use of techniques to affect reader. ... - Why was this passage chosen? ... - Word Choice: Chosen for sound/syntax: sentences complete? ... Symbols: structural/incidental/literal/figurative, concrete/abstract Commentary Organization - Introductory paragraph - Identify type of prose and author's intent - Identify voice and tone of persona (if relevant) - Focus on central idea...

• Word Count: 757
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The author James Joyce has written Eveline as a third-person narration. ... So, the author has chosen to tell about the hardness of Eveline's life quite frankly. ... To make Eveline's struggle even harder the author describes the alternative to go with Frank positively. ... The author seems to suggest that the similar faith of becoming forgotten might await Eveline as well. ... As the author has written it, Eveline is like a helpless animal and has to yield to the life in Dublin. ...

• Word Count: 852
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The author James Joyce has written Eveline as a third-person narration. ... So, the author has chosen to tell about the hardness of Eveline's life quite frankly. ... To make Eveline's struggle even harder the author describes the alternative to go with Frank positively. ... The author seems to suggest that the similar faith of becoming forgotten might await Eveline as well. ... As the author has written it, Eveline is like a helpless animal and has to yield to the life in Dublin....

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The author James Joyce has written Eveline as a third-person narration. ... So, the author has chosen to tell about the hardness of Eveline's life quite frankly. ... To make Eveline's struggle even harder the author describes the alternative to go with Frank positively. ... As the story goes on, the author subtly brings out a possible threat that Eveline will face if she leaves home. ... The author seems to suggest that the similar faith of becoming forgotten might await Eveline as well. ...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

That Was Then, This Is Now was chosen as a notable book by the American Library Association. The Outsiders was chosen by the New York Herald Tribune as one of the best teen-age books for 1967, and received the Media & Methods Maxi Award in 1975. ... To remedy this oversight, the young author began to write about teens in a setting she felt would be familiar to her contemporaries. ... In this book by a now Seventeen-year-old author, it almost does the trick. ... I got the feeling that it was a very personal novel for Hinton and at the end of the book it was almost like I had gotten to know the ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The author's purpose of entertaining readers is reached through the use of literary techniques. ... The diction that Kate Chopin uses throughout this passage and the whole book was chosen very carefully. The diction was chosen to make readers feel a certain way by the specific words she uses. ...

• Word Count: 790
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Characterization There are 8 methods through which most authors characterize the people in a novel. ... This report will include quotations from the novel as well as your personal observations about the character you have chosen to study using a third person point of view. ... Introduction/ Paragraph 1: name the character your have chosen book title and author's full name Briefly state your feelings about the kind of individual your character is-what do you think are three OUTSTANDING characteristics of this individual? ...

• Word Count: 1061
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

One message the author may be conveying to the reader is that blindly following traditions could be fatal. Throughout the story the author uses irony to shock the reader at the tale's conclusion. ... By the the end of the story readers then figure out why the the kids were gathering small rocks, as the author states, "The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready" (Jackson 6). ... The author could have chosen any other name, but she decided on "Graves". ...

• Word Count: 1411
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To define and make a short story successful out of the many that are written, the author often builds a single focus around which the whole short story is concentrated. ... The author, O'Flaherty, describes each motion and nuance of the sniper, his looks, emotions, and thoughts. ... Both short stories use their chosen single focus and maintain that focus through the whole story. Both stories have their own single primary focus and each author uses its own focus to its fullest extent, concentrating and even building their stories around this one centre. ...

• Word Count: 1361
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The way the author divided the novel up into monthly installments makes you think of hour long series events that come on television. ... In "Like water for chocolate", the author Laura Esquivel extends the cultural themes of magic realism to the domestic world or a female responsibility dominated household. ... This theme of emotions being translated through food was purposely chosen to show how women are seen as care givers or nurturers despite stress being placed on them by the very people they provide sustenance for. The author does not present the existence of a utopian togetherness of wo...

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

The character I have chosen to discuss is Richard 'Dick' Thornhill, the 2nd son of William and Sal Thornhill. ... Through the novel, the author explains what defines each character. ... The author designed Richard to be one of the few people to be sympathetic towards them especially in the eyes of his father. ... Whether this lets the audience to accept the aboriginal's liking/traditions, but for Richard and other characters (Thomas Blackwater and Mrs Herring) the author expresses the idea of sympathy and acceptance. ...

• Word Count: 1151
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the ' 20s and ' 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politic...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

This is the point that the author, Shirley Jackson, is trying to make in her short story "The Lottery". ... After his mother had been chosen, "The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles" (278). ...

• Word Count: 1086
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"THE LADY OR THE TIGER" Introduction: The short story "The Lady, or The Tiger" is written by, "Frank R. Stockton". This story was one of the most well liked stories of its time. It was one of the biggest selling stories in 1895, which made him voted as the fifth best living American writer of th...

• Word Count: 1579
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As the inspirational author Rick Warren states, we should all desire to live "A Purpose Driven Life.... After the purpose is located in this character, it is followed by the perseverance that will be necessary to pioneer the path this traveler has chosen. ...

• Word Count: 2554
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Yellow Wallpaper The short story, Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is written in first person and it is from our nameless character's writings that we are introduced to her world and her life. It is through this that we see our main characters transition into a world that only s...

• Word Count: 2055
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Author Biography Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, on May 25, 1938, to laborer Clevie Raymond Carver and homemaker Ella Beatrice Carver. ... was chosen for The Best American Short Stories, 1967. ...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School