Example:In Kurt Vonnegut’sSlaughterhouse-Five,the protagonist emerges from his shelter to find total destruction, and makes the hyperbolic statement that: ‘Dresden was like the moon now, nothing but minerals.’ Imagery This is visual symbolism, figurative, descriptive language that appeals to the ...
The poem is located on the site of a former fish and horse market and a slaughterhouse, and the speaker seems expectant of the current situation of the place because according to her, “that’s all” she “expected.” As the poem progresses, the speaker meets someone who “rarely spoke”...
too. Additionally, some examples of lit fic involve scenarios that would never happen in real life. For example, time travel and visions of the future occur in Kurt Vonnegut’sSlaughterhouse-Five, but the novel is distinctly literary in its focus on war. ...
Authors commonly reference the literary works that came before them (known as intertextuality) and engage with elements of metafiction in which the characters, author, or narrator acknowledge that they’re parts of fiction. Examples of Postmodernist Literature Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Vonn...
“O’Leary and his metaphysical snake slither across a hallucinogenic Alice In Wonderland / Yellow Submarine / Slaughterhouse Five narrative that is even weirder than the reality that is America.” Mario Acevedo, author of the Felix Gomez series “O’Leary’s 51 is literary fiction on LSD,...
O’Brien creates what feels like, partially, a memoir. But, on the other hand, readers have to figure out what’s real and what’s illusion or fiction. He also speaks about war in a very self-aware way, something that’s also found inSlaughterhouse-Fiveand Joseph Heller’sCatch-22. ...
They support you in finding specific text elementsand by doing so, they help to accelerate“forms of non-contiguous reading”(Muel-ler 2014: § 9). Even the difficulties that arise from using these tools seem similarto those the monks experienced nearly 800 years ago. Algorithms can identify ...
Kurt Vonnegut,Slaughterhouse-Five; cover design by Paul Bacon, 1969 Another Paul Bacon classic for a book that has beenrecovered countless times—this one has been mostly replaced in schools with the Dell paperback edition from the 90s, but it holds its own in the t-shirt market. Did you ...
I have seen a janitor’s wife come out of her cellar and douse the sullied pavement with a bucket of water, and I am still unable to understand what part these humble slaughterhouse accidents play in warfare. A moral role? But a bombardment turns against the bombarder! *** Caught in ...
Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut’sSlaughterhouse Five, is set loose in time, and visits scenes from earlier and later in his life. As the excerpt above shows, Billy doesn’t have any control which part of his life he will live next. This is an interesting example of flash...