Notes on 5 Different Short Story

Notes on Short Story THE GIFT OF THE MAGI By O. Henry learn 26 September 2012 agnomen The Gift of the Magi Author William Sydney Porter also cognize as O. Henry Background of the O. Henry O. Henry was rude(a) on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Both his mother and stimulate died before O. Henry turned 20. As a teenager, he worked as a pharmacists assistant in his uncles pharmaceutics to help support his family. At age 19, he moved to Texas to conceive advantage of its warmth and dry climate. There he worked at a farm that belonged to a friend of his familys. Vocabulary * Instigates To cause by incitation Subsiding To sink to a low or lower train * Coax To attempt to influence by gentle persuasion * Faltered To undulate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc. * Ravages To work havoc upon * avowal A positive statement or declaration, often with pop reason or support * Tresses A plait or braid of fuzz * intent Having, expressive of, or characterized by i ntense feeling * Dandy A gentleman who is excessively concerned close to his clothes and appearance * trough A box or trough in a persistent or barn from which horses or cattle eat Setting Christmas Eve, tender York City Characters Delia Young * James Dillingham Young * Madame Sofronie literary Devices * Allusion The magi, as you know, were intoxicating menwonderfully wise menwho brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. * reiteration And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two * Polysyndeton a quantify by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the howevercher. * prosopopoeia The dull precious alloy seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent soul. * Repetition looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. * Simile about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. * illustration Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. * Situational Irony Della receives combs for her hair that is no longer there. * Synecdoche White fingers and nimble tore the string and authorship * Alliteration that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles. symbolization 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 grandeur of the gift they would receive from their spouse.The gifts showing the importance of giving everything of themselves. Theme * Love * Sacrifice * Wealth * Women and Feminity Point of consider Third Person THE NECKLACE BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT Date 10 October 2012 Title The Necklace Author Henri Rene Albert Guy De Maupassant Background of the Author Henri Rene Albert Guy De Maupassant was born on August 5th, 1850 and was declared deceased on July 6th, 1893. He was a cut writer known for his short stories, which painted the life of people in the 19th Century of France.He was prolific, published 300 short stories and 6 novels, except he died at a very young ag e callable to physical and mental illness. Vocabulary * Blundered A gross, or stupid computer error * Wit The keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections amid ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. * Antechambers A chamber or means that serves as a waiting room and entrance to a larger room or an apartment * Peopling Indefinitely or Collectively * Trifled An article or thing of very little value Setting Paris, 1880 Character * Mathilde Loisel * Monsieur Loisel Madame Fo resideier Literary Devices * Situational Irony * Authorial Intrusion * Anaphora * Alliteration Symbolism The Necklace The necklace, fine but worthless, represents the power of perception and the split 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 * Wealth * Women and Feminity * superciliousness * Suffering A Very Old h uman beings with Enormous travel 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 << integrity Hundred Years of Solitude >> and << Love in Time of epidemic cholera >> have drawn worldwide audiences. He won the Nobel Prize in 1982. After College, he became a journalist who introduced readers to magical realism. Vocabulary * daze Suspension or great diminution of sensibility as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc. Grandeur The whole step or state of being impressive * Dialect A miscellanea of language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and dictionary and by its use by a group of speakers who are nail down off from others geographically or socially. * Bailiff An officer, sim ilar to a sheriff or a sheriffs deputy, employed to execute writs and processes, make arrests, keep order in the court, etc. * Reverence A feeling or attitude of loggerheaded respect tinged with awe * Frivolous Characterize by lack of distressfulness or sense * Robust Strong and Healthy Impertinences Unmannerly encroachment or presumption Setting Characters * The Old Man * Pelayo * Elisenda * Father Gonzaga * The dwell Woman * The Spider Woman Literary Devices * Verbal Irony * synaesthesia * Magical Realism * Onomatopoeia * Allusion Symbolism * Wings Wings represent power, swiftness and limitless freedom in motion. Ironically, the wings of the angel in the falsehood convey only a sense of age and disease. When the village unsex examines the old man, he notices how naturally the wings fit in with the rest of his body.The ultimate effect is to suggest that the old man is both natural and supernatural at once. * The Spider Woman The spider woman represents the changefulness wi th which many self-interested people approach their own faith. Not surprisingly, the old mans reputation wanes when he proves capable of performing only nonaged consolation miracles. Themes * Family * Moral * Religion * Magical Realism The Pedestrian By enlighten 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 rejected being categorized as a sci-fi author, claiming that his work was based on the fantastical and unreal. His best known novel is Fahrenheit 451. He is also remembered for other of his popular kit and boodle including << The Martian Chronicles >> and << Something Wicked This Way Comes >>. He was declared deceased fair recently, June 5th, 2012 at the age of 91. Vocabulary * Seams The line formed by fasten together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like. * Intermittent Stopping or ceasing for a pr ison term * Wintry Of or characteristic of winter * Doot N/ASetting November, 2053 A. D. Characters * Leonard Mead Literary 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 lights in contrast to the dark city. It is a symbol of hope of vibrant life light is a oecumenical symbol of hope, but the car is swallowed up once more into the darkness, literally and figuratively. Themes * Technology * Society loses its humanity * Mankind cease to exist * intuition and Ultimate Destruction * Propaganda * Pessimistic