English resumo

Things to analyse in short Stories

does he utilize imagery

Evoking …

The author stresses the …

The … signifies the …

He depicts the …, suggesting his apparent disapproval on

Vivid description

This helps to emphasize the…

Here he continues to question the validity of…

He employs irony to illustrate the…

Purposefully highlighting the… restating his criticism towards it.

Through the use of …. Orwell emphasizes …., ultimately showing his denunciation towards the issue

The authors perspective is supported by the overall tone and mood he sets for the short story

He likened the … to the…

… shed some insight into

It was tugging at the readers heartstrings and emotions

On the cusp of existence

They are both inherently human

Being desensitized

How is the atmosphere portrayed? Atmosphere perceived by the narrator

This is because a relief for escaping the terrible scene of execution was bigger than a
despair of a person’s death.

The gloomy atmosphere tells us that the narrator, who is just a bystander of a hanging,
also senses gloominess around the jail yard.
Literary devices:

- Allusion
- Foreshadowing
- Irony
- Symbolism

Point of view:

Remember that the point of view and the narrator are tools created and used by the author in order
to tell a story in a certain way.

- Reliable or unreliable narrator

Imagery:

he mental pictures created by the author's words. Writers use concrete images to go beyond
physical description in order to express feelings and states of mind. Most images are created
through words that appeal to the reader's five senses.

Symbolism:

It is an image of an event or a physical object (a thing, person, or place) that is used to represent
something non- physical such as an idea, a value, or an emotion.

- Metaphor
- Simile
- Hyperbole
- Personification
- Onomatopoeia