Along with the literary techniques utilized by Hopkins, she also sparks intrigue through her unique placement of words on the page. ... Through her many literary techniques, Ellen Hopkins has created a new genre of writing. ...
This literary text servers primarily to entertain, but as with all texts, also tries to give insight into the discourses present. ... Through an analysis of three texts of differing genre, it has been shown that an author of a text will often try to manipulate a reader by stressing some aspects or suppressing others. ...
Critical Analysis: The Things They Carried is a representation of damage and trauma soldiers experienced both as boys before the war, and veterans after. ... In his literary work, O"Brien is not afraid to portray soldiers in a less-than-magnificent light; in fact he humanizes their actions and allows the reader to identify with them. ...
Many authors are unable to charm their audience with a mesmerizing story. Most of the time this incompetence stems from the same mistake; the authors are unable to passably use a stylistic device to entice their readers. [In Boy's Life, Robert McCammon beautifully conveys not one, but three superb stylistic devices that immediately captivate his audience.] When reading Boy's Life, one of the most eye-catching elements is the setting. In general the setting is used to create a mental picture for the reader. ...
When somebody tells us an interesting story we usually like to talk about it. Some of us let our imagination create our own special details to make the story a little more catchy, others may have heard the story several times by different people and consequently combine the two or three different versions to make the story more accurate while others just say the story the way they heard it. In Gary Gildner's short story "Sleepy Time Gal" the narrator had heard the story from his mother and his father so he combines the two perspectives to make his story more complete and interesting by a...
