... to give emphasis to detail and the main points in the story. Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea uses literary devices to make it a marvelous read and an outstanding piece of literature. Symbols are an extremely significant literary device used through out this novel. Symbols are anything that suggests an idea or quality. In The Old Man and the Sea ... catches his giant fish, giving a lasting impression of endurance. The metaphors in this novel help to connect ideas and give more meaning to the details. Imagery is an equally important literary device that is used in the nov...

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... a short holiday in San Sebastian, Spain. Then he goes to Madrid to help the woman to whom he has had a long attachment. The literary element of setting, which is the effects of the time and place that can be connected to allusions and characterization in a novel, was presented very ... home. It was the same scene which many expatriate writers and artists experienced before the next war dispersed them. Ernest Hemingway strongly presented the literary element of theme in The Sun Also Rises. Theme can be the meaning, moral message, or illustration portrayed by the author. The major ... re...

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... focus on the definition of stories of initiation and the appliance of these criteria on Hemingway′s short fiction, other aspects of interpretation (e.g. the often mentioned autobiographical content or stylistic devices which are characteristic for Hemingway′s iceberg-principle) have to be neglected. They should, however, be kept in mind as they are important constituents of Hemingway′s work. ... by other characteristics to define stories of initiation which will be discussed in the following chapters. There are, however, still some definitions which also find parts of rituality in...

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... the older waiters negative outlook and lamentation about his age, wishing he was as young as the other waiter. Hemingway's use of tone in the dialogue provides us with subtle literary devices to distinguish between the characters. Despite its subtlety, this approach does provide us with ample information regarding each of the two waiters. Hemingway was able to present us with the ... ...

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... a family on their summer holiday and eventually on their separate paths in life. It includes amazing uses of rhetorical devices and is a complex study of family dynamics, yet it has no message of a rebellious or adverse nature. Similarly, Ernest Hemingway wrote countless literary classics. In his book A Farewell To Arms, Hemmingway explores an incredible war-torn love story between a solider and a nurse ... ...

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... of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Ernest Hemingway had a different style of writing than the other authors in his time. "The Sun Also Rises is the book that established Hemingway as a literary force and it introduced the world to the Lost Generation" (Wilson 5). The Lost Generation is referred to as the disillusioned that fought in the war. "Two of the novel's main ... of grain and tress along the banks of the Ebro River."" Also on each side of the station where each hill is, there is a train track. These objects are symbolic devices prepare the reader in realizing that the characters a...

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