This can be seen by the complicated diction throughout the story as if looking back upon an old memory. ... In "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place- the narrator uses common diction to relay the events of the story and express the characters feelings of isolation and social setting preferences. ... The use of the narrators and all of their associated diction, literary devices and descriptions lead to an understanding of how these two short stories could have become so famous. ...

• Word Count: 515
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The Test by Angelica Gibbs has used such elements of narrative such as setting, characterisation and diction to both emphasis and develop the dominant issues raised within this short story. ... The diction used in this text plays a significant role to the emphasis of the central issue and setting of this text. ...

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

The diction employed suggests that the author is projecting a different concern through the melancholic voice of his character, that the public life of England and the modern world mirrors the isolation of the Wilcox's 'outer life'. ... Here we see a direct acceptance from Margaret that the world needs its Wilcox's; through her diction Henry becomes part of England's history. ... The image is striking; within the diction we see that England is attributed a female persona, and therefore we can determine that the nation is fertile, and ready to give birth to new possibil...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Using the innocent narrative voice that interchanges between the perspectives of nine-year old Claudia and her adult-self, the motif of the doll and connotative diction, Morrison emphasizes the emotional scars rejection young girls felt as a result of society's establishment of beauty. ...

• Word Count: 655
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. However, these protagonists are perceived very differently as a result of the different narrative pe...

• Word Count: 2039
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate