Language and Tone Analysis Essay
Analyze specific language elements in a selected story. You can choose any of the following stories.
Keep in mind that you will be required to identify a specific amount of allusions, so that should be the basis for selecting a story. You do not want to select one that does not include the amount of requested allusions.
Focus Description: You will identify the following specific language techniques:
1. Symbols (at least 10-15 different symbols). If you list 2 or 3 phrases, objects, words, etc. and indicate that they represent the same idea, then, technically, the 3 objects count as ONE symbol. All symbols should have different interpretations.
2. Allusions (at least 5 different allusions). Please review the lecture notes and videos about allusions. If you are unsure if you are identifying allusions correctly, you can send me an email with the list of five, and I will verify if they are allusions.
3. Ironies (at least 2 different ironies). Please review the lecture notes and videos about the different types of ironies.
4. Simile/Metaphor (at least 2 similes OR two metaphors OR one of each). Again, the lecture notes offer clarification for a simile and metaphor.
5. Your choice (at least 2 examples for your choice of language technique). Keep in mind that language elements also include imagery, foreshadowing, diction, syntax, personification, hyperbole, repetition, dialogue, etc. You can select one of these and offer two examples for it, OR you can select two of the additional elements and include one example for each.
6. Tone shifts—identify the overall tone for the story. Then offer indication of when tones shift. Clearly identify how the tone shifts.
List of Stories to choose from:
Conrad Aiken-Silent Snow, Secret Snow**
Dorothy Allison
Jason, Who Will Be Famous**
Sherwood Anderson
I Want to Know Why
Margaret Atwood
Death By Landscape
James Baldwin
Sonny’s Blues
Toni Cade Bambara
Gorilla, My Love
Richard Bausch
Letter to the Lady of the House
Ann Beattie
Snow
Ambrose Bierce
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Jorge Luis Borges
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Truman Capote
Miriam
Raymond Carver
Cathedral
Willa Cather
Paul’s Case
John Cheever
The Enormous Radio
Anton Chekhov
Gusev
Kate Chopin
Story of an Hour
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Stephen Crane
The Open Boat
Ralph Ellison
King of the Bingo Game
Louise Erdrich
Machimanito
William Faulkner
Barn Burning
A Rose for Emily
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Babylon Revisited
Richard Ford
Communist**
Mavis Gallant**
Ice Wagon Coming Down the Street**
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
Nathanial Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown
Ernest Hemingway
Hills Like White Elephants
Zora Neale Hurston
The Conscience of the Court
James Joyce
Araby
The Dead
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
Yasunari Kawabata
The White Horse
Jamaica Kincaid
Girl
Jhumpa Lahiri**
Hell-Heaven
D.H. Lawrence
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
Ursula K. LeGuin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Party**
Bobbie Ann Mason
Shiloh
Guy de Maupassant
An Adventure in Paris
James Alan McPherson
Why I Like Country Music
Herman Melville
Bartleby, The Scrivner
Bharati Mukherjee
The Management of Grief
Alice Munro
Royal Beatings
Miles City, Montana**
Vladimir Nabokov
Signs and Symbols
Joyce Carol Oates
How I Contemplated the World…
Tim O’Brien
The Things They Carried
Flannery O’Connor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Good Country People
Frank O’Connor
Guests of the Nation
Tillie Olson
O Yes
Grace Paley**
The Used-Boy Raisers**
Jayne Anne Phillips**
El Paso**
Katherine Anne Porter
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Annie Proulx**
What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Buy?**
George Saunders**
Victory Lap**
Danzy Senna
Admission
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gimpel the Fool
John Steinbeck
The Chyrsanthemums
Amy Tan
Rules of the Game
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Illych
John Updike
A&P
Helena Maria Viramontes
The Moths
Alice Walker
Everyday Use
Robert Penn Warren
Blackberry Winter
Eudora Welty
A Worn Path
William Carlos Williams
The Use of Force
Tobias Wolff
Bullet in the Brain**
Virginia Wolf
Kew Gardens
Richard Wright
The Man Who Was Almost a Man

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