Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea uses literary devices to make it a marvelous read and an outstanding piece of literature. Symbols are an extremely significant literary device used through out this novel. ... Another example of a metaphor shown in the novel is the old man's sail. ... Imagery is an equally important literary device that is used in the novel. ... To sum up in Ernst Hemingway novel The Old Man and the Sea he uses literary devices to make the book a marvelous read and an outstanding piece of fiction literature. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Comparison of The Famous Although every author has his own style there can be some similarities between stories using literary devices. ... The location of this story played a big role, which makes it an important literary device. In "The Guest" the location of the schoolhouse was an important literary device. ... The setting of the story, its surroundings, and weather sets the tone to the story which makes it an important literary device. 3 In "A Rose for Emily" also used the literary device of symbolism. ... These are some examples of symbolism found in Faulkner's short story. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Salinger is able to create such as diverse and complex character through the use of several literary devices. These literary devices portray the personality and the complexity of Holden's character to the reader. ... This is an example of hyperbole, and helps the reader gain an understanding into Holden's personality and characteristics. ... " The use of hyperbole in this phrase, is an example of how Holden feels towards teenage problems. ... Salinger's novel, which is achieved through the use of various literary devices....

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She reveals the same virtue of using letters as a dramatic device in her famous novel Pride and Prejudice. ... The great novelist has used the letters as a dramatic device to enhance the storyline, to give support to the revelation process of the characters, as well as to introduce the basic theme of the novel to the readers. ... Thus, she uses the device of letters as something which contributes significantly in the development of the plot. ... For example, the very first letter of Mr. ... Collins, towards the end of the story, strikes as the masterpiece of literary device. ...

• Word Count: 817
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• Grade Level: High School

Meaning is gained from a literary text at both a literal and also a symbolic level. Literary devices are the most direct way in which an author reinforces the themes of a novel. ... In the novel, one of the most significant literary devices used by Winton is symbolism, which plays upon the aesthetic sensibilities harbored by the text's audience and provides insight and deeper understanding to the themes of the novel. ... This lady, filled with "missionary purpose that came upon her like the flu" took in young Aboriginal girls and "aimed to make ladies of them so they could set an example...

• Word Count: 1957
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Many critics have observed that in Orlando Woolf absorbs cinematic devices, adapting zooms, change-in-focus, close-ups, flashbacks, dissolves and tracking shots. ... Completing the narrative framing device, the voiceover asserts, "But she is changed. ... As with any literary adaptation, Potter's adaptation of Orlando has been met with much criticism. ... The image of the bumboat woman is there, and the meeting between Orlando and Shelmerdine on the moors is fairly close to the literary version. ... This is one example of effective casting. ...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first literary device, which constitutes the development of this major theme in the book The Catcher in the rye, is characterization. ... For example, there is a boy named Stradlater. ... This theme of innocence is also related to another literary element, symbolism. ... A few examples of these symbols are the catcher in the rye, the ducks in the Central Park lagoon, Holden's red hunting cap, and the carrousel's gold ring. ... These literary techniques allow Salinger to reveal the significance of a common theme. ...

• Word Count: 1143
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• Grade Level: High School

An excellent example of this writing style is found on pg. 87 when Janie says "Ah'm gone tuh de house. ... 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

In this book I think two of the biggest literary devices are simply metaphors and similies. ... I did not know some of the things happened that did, for example when Kemmerich dies they just gave his boots away and left him. ...

• Word Count: 699
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• Grade Level: High School

During the time that Frankenstein was written (1818), Romanticism was the dominant literary period, and much of the Romantic philosophy can be seen in Mary Shelley's novel. ... Another example of this theme is the fact that while Frankenstein is experimenting, he somewhat rejects his father (a person of power) by ostracizing himself from his father. ... Thérese Raquin (1868) was written by Émile Zola during the Naturalist literary period. ... The main point of writing a novel by using a frame device is in order to see the differences among the characters and to see the d...

• Word Count: 1913
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• Grade Level: High School

Maybe the first and the most important example of women role in the 1800s in the novel is Otama. ... The second example of how the author let the reader know the role of women throughout the novel is Otsune. ... The last example of the role of women in that time is an example of symbolism. ... He does this example of symbolism in an effective way through the use of narration. ... The context is strongly connected with the novel because reading the novel the reader can get to understand with the use of literary devices such as symbolism the main purpose of this essay. ...

• Word Count: 955
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• Grade Level: High School

" Rejecting these concepts was among many of the cultural forces that drove literary modernism. ... Modernism, as a literary style is built upon the ideas and concepts found in both literary naturalism and realism; All together the beliefs in these theories reject the basis and ideals of romanticism. ... For example, many of the characters in modern literature will face personal challenges in varying from the question of mental well being, the misery in relationships, and the concept of constant pressure to uphold any particular demographical position in society. ... Stephen Crane ...

• Word Count: 3767
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, in the novel, he says, "It was dark when I awoke, I felt cold and half frightened as it was instinctively, finding myself so desolated, feeling pain invade me, I sat down and wept" (Shelley, p.35). ... Examples of the involvements would be separation, affection and happiness. ... This basically negotiates Shelley's idea, by altering it to a device for performing so that she can make money for her work. ... For example, this is portrayed in the two movies: Frankenweenie, and Alvin and the Chipmunks especially when they meet Frankenstein. ... For example, in one division it s...

• Word Count: 1540
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. ... La Senora's occupations swing from massage therapist to the attempt of mass production of "bizarre devices- like "never- fail breast with candy nipple- and the like (123-124). ... It is hard to admit, but the way she handles her womanhood as a highest gift is an example to me. ...

• Word Count: 2213
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate