Literature & Composition IV

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Literary Terms

Define each term and find one or two examples from the stories.

Literary Terms: Miriam

•Characterization

•Imagery

•Setting

•Mood

Literary Terms: Zoo Island

•Figurative Language

•Metaphor

•Simile

•Theme

posted by Jeffrey at 3:29 PM

1 Comments:

  • you see for some reason I don't know I can't log on to hotmail, and it to me till now sunday night to figure this out. i can post my essay as a comment on your blog even if it takes alot of time and room i want u to remember this is the best i could come up with and at least i tried.

    Miriam appears one day but just who or what is she. It is in my belief that Miriam is a figment of Mrs. Millers imagination created purely out of loneliness. Miriam looks so different she couldn’t be a real child. She behaves like no child. Mrs. Miller leaves a lonely life and needs another person. Miriam has to be Mrs. Millers solution to her loneliness. Miriam looks like no child that could exist in reality. Her hair is an albino silver white. Her eyes are large and lack an childlike qualities. She also wears clothes that are totally out of season, white silk in February, defently not a wardrobe malfunction. No child could have that appearance.
    Miriam’s behavior isn’t normal in any regards. She is so incredibly selfish, noone could possibly be that self-centered. She refuses to reveal how she knows anything that she shouldn’t know. Her disappear-reappear act is completely impossible by any standard, especially in the end of the story when she does it with a doll and a heavy trunk that she can barley lift. Nothing Miriam does is anything a real child would do.
    Mrs. Miller lives a lonely life. Her husband died many years ago leaving her all alone for she has no children. She has no friends. She almost never leaves the house, which deprives her of any social interaction. She lives a said life isolated from humanity.
    Mrs. Miller has gotten so lonely that she created Miriam as another person to be with. Miriam’s otherworldly looks were created by Mrs. Miller’s imagination. Miriam in a fashion that would force Mrs. Miller to let Miriam into her life. Mrs. Miller lived in such away she needed to create Miriam in order to escape. Miriam came from Mrs Miller’s imagination out of a desire for companionship and Miriam did everything to fulfill that role.

    Love
    your friend
    Chuck B.

    P.S. sorry for not thinking of this sooner. and i'll probly email you a copy in study hall tomorrow 1st hr

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Sunday, October 02, 2005  

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