Ellie McNair English 9-3 Honors 9-28-15 Tone and Mood in Short Stories Many literary terms are used when describing short stories, including tone and mood. Tone is the author’s attitude toward what he is writing about, which is determined based on the word choice and how the author says things in the story. Mood is the emotion that the text creates in the readers. In The Lady, or the Tiger? the author does a better job of communicating tone, as where in The Necklace, mood is shown more clearly.
The Door Which Held the Tiger In Frank R Stockton’s exciting short story “The Lady or the Tiger”, the barbaric princess chose the tiger. As the story progresses, the author states, “This semi- barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies, and with a soul fervent and imperious as his own.” When the author describes the princess as “semi- barbaric” he is saying the princess is a savage, cruel person that is also spoiled and greedy. The princess would mislead the young man in
In Frank Stockton’s short story, “The Lady or the Tiger?”, the princess chooses the tiger because of her semi-barbaric personality and her loathing of the lady. The narrator describes the princess as having a “moiety of barbarism in her nature” (271) and her father is also described as “semi-barbaric” (267). The world “barbaric” suggests that a person is extremely cruel and brutal, which leads the reader to infer that the princess has experienced much blood and gore in her life watching fights in
the short story of Little Red Riding Hood. To summarize it for those of you that have not herd it, it is a story about a little girl that is sent by her mother to bring some goods to her grandma. On the way to her grandma’s house she is met by a wolf that tricks her. The wolf goes to the grandma’s home and eats her and then waits around for little Red to come. He dresses up like the grandma and when little red comes he ends up eating her too. However, my purpose is not to just retell the story, I
poetic prose, with a prologue and an epilogue, dealing with the incestuous love of Yami for her brother. G. V. Desani’s Hali (1950), an entirely different kind of play, received high praise for its originality, symbolism and rich imagery. Lakhan Deb’s Tiger Claw (1967) is a historical play in three acts on the controversial murder of Afzal Khan by Shivaji. His other two plays are Vivekanand (1972) and Murder at the Prayer Meeting (1976). The use of blank verse is flawless and the last play compels us
Lyrical Voice By: Lakella L. Taylor And Frankie Fipps Joy in the Midst of my Pain By: Lakella L. Taylor God give me the strength I need to go on My heart is wailing, sorrowful My soul lies driven in by the tide of despair. Lord lift up my heart; lift up my soul, save me From my affliction and pain. For great is my love for thee. For thy art my joy in the midst of my pain.