Notes on 5 Different Short Story

Notes on Short recital THE GIFT OF THE MAGI By O. heat content find 26 phratry 2012 prenomen The ease up of the Magi actor William Sydney Porter also cognize as O. Henry primer of the O. Henry O. Henry was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Both his arrive and father died before O. Henry cancelled 20. As a teenager, he worked as a pharmacists avail in his uncles drugstore to protagonist support his family. At age 19, he moved to Texas to take advantage of its rage and dry climate. There he worked at a farm that belonged to a mavin of his familys. diction * Instigates To cause by incitement Subsiding To sink to a moo or lower level * palaver To attempt to influence by conciliate persuasion * Faltered To hesitate or swerve in action, purpose, intent, etc. * Ravages To work mayhem upon * Assertion A positive logical argument or declaration, often without reason or support * Tresses A plait or braid of hair * Ardent Having, communicatory of, or characterized by intense nip * Dandy A small-arm who is besides concerned near his clothes and carriage * whileger A box or trough in a lasting or barn from which horses or oxen eat cathode-ray oscilloscope Christmas Eve, New York metropolis temperaments Delia Young * James Dillingham Young * Madame Sofronie literary Devices * Allusion The magi, as you know, were wise men marvelously wise menwho brought gifts to the Babe in the macrocosmger. * Anadiplosis And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies salve one and two * Polysyndeton a term by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the muchovercher. * prosopopoeia The dull precious metal seemed to shoot with a reflection of her bright and longing soul. * Repetition looked out dully at a gray cat travel a gray fence in a gray backyard. * Simile about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. * Metaphor Oh, and the contiguous two hours tripped by on blushful travel. * Situational ridicule Della get holds combs for her hair that is no long-life there. * Synecdoche White fingers and nimble tore the draw and paper * Alliteration that life is do up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles. tokenization The symbolism in The Gift of the Magi is based upon the gifts given by Jim and Della. Both Jim and Della gave up a possession the forfeited the importance of the gift they would receive from their spouse.The gifts showing the importance of giving e genuinelything of themselves. stand * Love * Sacrifice * Wealth * Women and Feminity berth of View Third Person THE NECKLACE BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT get wind 10 October 2012 Title The Necklace causality Henri Rene Albert Guy De Maupassant Background of the Author Henri Rene Albert Guy De Maupassant was born on fearful 5th, 1850 and was declared decedent on July 6th, 1893. He was a French writer know for his short stories, which painted the life of spate in the 19th Century of France.He was prolific, create 300 shor t stories and 6 novels, still he died at a very young age collectible to physiological and mental illness. Vocabulary * Blundered A gross, or stupid mistake * Wit The crafty perception and cleverly apt mental synthesis of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. * Antechambers A chamber or room that serves as a waiting room and doorway to a larger room or an apartment * Peopling Indefinitely or jointly * Trifled An article or thing of very little value Setting Paris, 1880 Character * Mathilde Loisel * Monsieur Loisel Madame Forestier literary Devices * Situational Irony * Authorial incursion * Anaphora * Alliteration Symbolism The Necklace The necklace, bonny but worthless, represents the power of perception and the tell apart between appearances and reality. Mathilde wants to borrow the necklace from Madame Forestier, but she did not tell Mathilde that it was a fake. Mathilde never underestimated Madame Forestier due to her wealth. Themes * Wea lth * Women and Feminity * Pride * Suffering A Very Old Man with commodious locomote By Gabriel Garcia Marquez Date 31 October 2012Title A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez Background of the Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on march 6th, 1928. He was a writer who grew up listening to family tales. His novels and have drawn general audiences. He won the Nobel Prize in 1982. After College, he became a journalist who introduced readers to magical realism. Vocabulary * Stupor hiatus or great diminution of sensitiveness as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc. aristocracy The quality or state of be impressive * Dialect A regeneration of language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same(p) language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary and by its use by a classify of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially. * Bailiff An officer, similar to a sheriff or a sheriffs deputy, emp loyed to effect writs and processes, make arrests, keep order in the court, etc. * Reverence A mental picture or attitude of deep take note tinged with awe * Frivolous Characterize by lack of seriousness or instinct * Robust Strong and Healthy Impertinences primitive intrusion or presumption Setting Characters * The Old Man * Pelayo * Elisenda * Father Gonzaga * The populate Woman * The Spider Woman Literary Devices * Verbal Irony * Synesthesia * supernatural naturalism * Onomatopoeia * Allusion Symbolism * Wings Wings represent power, speed and limitless license in motion. Ironically, the wings of the angel in the story convey only a sense of age and disease. When the village have-to doe with examines the old man, he notices how naturally the wings fit in with the rest of his body.The final effect is to suggest that the old man is both natural and supernatural at once. * The Spider Woman The spider womanhood represents the fickleness with which many self-interested peop le draw near their own faith. Not surprisingly, the old mans reputation wanes when he proves suitable of performing only minor ease miracles. Themes * Family * Moral * Religion * Magical Realism The Pedestrian By irradiate Bradbury Date 7 November 2012 Title The Pedestrian Author Ray Bradbury Background of the Author Ray Bradbury was born on August 22nd, 1920, Waukegan, Illinois.He was an American fantasy and horror author who jilted being categorized as a sci-fi author, claiming that his work was based on the wondrous and unreal. His best known novel is Fahrenheit(postnominal) 451. He is also remembered for other of his usual works including and . He was declared deceased just recently, June 5th, 2012 at the age of 91. Vocabulary * Seams The line formed by sew together together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like. * Intermittent fish fillet or ceasing for a time * nipping Of or characteristic of winter * Doot N/ASetting November, 2053 A. D. Characters * Leonard Mead Lit erary Devices * Personification * Imagery * Symbolism * Simile * Metaphor * Alliteration * Irony Symbolism On their way to the psychiatric Center for Research on regressive Tendencies, they pass Meads house. It is ablaze with well-defineds in contrast to the dark city. It is a symbol of hope of vibrant life light is a universal symbol of hope, but the car is swallowed up once more into the darkness, literally and figuratively. Themes * Technology * Society loses its public * Mankind cease to exist * scruple and Ultimate Destruction * Propaganda * Pessimistic