19. Caricature (夸张讽刺) The use of exaggeration or distortion to make a figure appear comic or ridiculous. 夸张讽刺:为了使文中的人物显得可笑而使用的夸张或扭曲人物形象的手法。 20. Characterization (人物刻画) The means by which a writer reveals the personality of a character. 人物刻画:作者...
She is the center of this poem, but we never learn much about her except that she was young, the narrator's wife, and her name was Annabel Lee. In a way, the sound of her name becomes her, and takes her place. It's a poem about a girl, but also about the memory of her. ...
3). For example, the Carver story was centered around the discovery of the body of a young woman and the narrator’s suspicion that her husband, who found the body on a camping trip, may have committed murder. Participants in the Intact condition from the Carver dataset were more likely ...
When you are writing in First Person POV, the voice of the narrator can drop in a bit of humor when describing a setting or another character. The master of colorful description was, of course, Raymond Chandler, through the voice of his detective, Philip Marlowe: It must have been Friday ...
10,11. In contrast, aesthetic responses to the writing or narrating itself are based on meta-features such as the style and place of a literary tradition, the narrative and figurative devices used, and the plot construction10,12. While not everybody can write literature, most people have ...
If that were the opening line of a short story or novel, I would continue reading. Two words,run away, hit hard in this context, feel a little surprising as an opener. The protagonist is the narrator andis speaking directly to us, which is a bold choice. Right away, you hope you ar...
The personal narratives told by a North Carolina woman contribute to our understanding of both the relationship of personal narratives to the overall speech economy of an area and gender‐specific narrative technique. Reported speech provides the means for this narrator to bring local speech practices...
Can Emily overcome resistance and her personal obstacles to halt the attacks? Praise for RIVER OF LIES: “[River of Lies has] everything that I love in a police procedural in spades: a smart and intuitive lead detective, an equally intuitive partner, and a high-stakes, ripped-from-the-...
(1766) . The vicar’s ethical dilemma is related to his lack of experience , and it is rooted in his inability to assert his authority effectively as pater familias. Once the narrator reveals the idiosyncratic Mr. Burchell...
Narratives help nursing researchers understand patients, nurse–patient relationships or other nursing issues such as personal identity, life-course development and the cultural and historical worlds of the narrators. Narratives also help to illuminate the intricacy of specific phenomena and the paradigms ...