PART 1... I wasn’t always like this. Well‚ I mean…I WAS‚ I guess. Maybe my eyes were closed. Maybe my eyes were just...lying. But the FEELING was always there‚ constantly bubbling in the dent of my chest. I always felt that my insides were too big for my skin. Like any minute my skin would start to separate and let out my organs and my bones‚ which were dying to escape. I was a water balloon‚ on the brink of exploding‚ saturating the hands of whoever was dumb enough to keep filling me‚ testing
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The story of an hour What is important about the title? The title is important as it emphasizes the fact that she lives her whole life in the space of this one hour. What are the conflicts in "The Story of an Hour"? What types of conflict (physical‚ moral‚ intellectual‚ or emotional) do you see in this story? The conflicts in The story of an Hour are mainly emotional‚ as you see her having an emotional battle with herself within the story‚ as the power of the emotions overwhelmed her and
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Literary Elements in The Story of an Hour In Kate Chopin’s short story‚ “The Story of an Hour” she uses different kinds of literary elements to clearly define her story and to show all of the meanings behind what happens in the story. There are many different kinds of literary elements used in this short story but I believe the most important one is irony. Irony is what she used the most throughout the story all the way into the conclusion which was by the far what gave the story a tragic and ironic
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War Stories Throughout the years‚ people share stories about war. Whether its in the news‚ or by word of mouth‚ or in a history class‚ people are able to get a feel of what war is said to be like. Many people will never experience war‚ therefore‚ they get to "experience" war through stories. But are all war stories true? Are they believable? In O’brien’s The Things They Carried and the movie documentary Restrepo‚ both tell stories of war‚ but both have a different way of doing so. The
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A short story is a brief work of literature‚ usually written in narrative prose.[1] Emerging from earlier oral storytelling traditions in the 17th century‚ the short story has grown to encompass a body of work so diverse as to defy easy characterization. At its most prototypical the short story features a small cast of named characters‚ and focuses on a self-contained incident with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.[2] In so doing‚ short stories make use of plot‚ resonance‚ and other
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Katherine Mansfield Project "The Canary" by Katherine Mansfield (1888 to 1923-New Zealand) is the last story that Mansfield completed. After first being published in 1922 it was included by her husband John Middleton Murry in a collection of her work he published shortly after her death in 1923‚ The Dove’s Nest and other Stories. It is very tempting to read an especial import into this story given that Mansfield knew her death was probably close at hand. It is has been said that the English
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Cinderella is a folktale that has become a story that many people can relate to‚ whether they know it or not. The story has so many different variants‚ which is why it has spread across the world and become so popular. It’s popularity is with people of all ages‚ since the story is relatable to anything that is going on. Cinderella is a story of a young girl‚ who is treated as a servant‚ that has the desire to attend the ball. Her stepmother and stepsisters try to keep her as far away from that
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Vacation to remember On a beautiful day in July‚ the sun shone brightly above the ocean where a sail boat leisurely floated. A pirate‚ named Nabarun who is the captain of his own boat‚ along with his friend Paandu were sailing on the coast of Vancouver. Nabarun and Paandu had come from India and had been best friends for 10 years; they had big dreams of travelling the world together because Nabarun was a pirate and owned his own sail boat which made it easier for them to travel and see family
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A short story concentrates on creating a single dynamic effect and is limited in character and situation. It is a language of maximum yet economical effect. Every word must do a job‚ sometimes several jobs. Short stories are filled with numerous language and sound devices. These language and sound devices create a stronger image of the scenario or the characters within the text‚ which contribute to the overall pre-designed effect.As it is shown in the metaphor ’lipstick bleeding gently’ in Cinnamon
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