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    Narrative and expository are writing styles used to present ideas to a reader. Narrative uses story elements while expository focuses on central ideas and supporting details. The Dark Game by Paul Janeczko and The Code Book by Simon Singh both explore aspects of espionage and the importance of code, but their organization, tone, and style are quite different. In The Dark Game, Janeczko presents factual information in a story like way that is entertaining to the reader. The text is written in a narrative

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    Narrative Style in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness The Heart of Darkness employs, broadly, a three framed narrative style. Conrad, the author, places an unnamed narrator aboard the Nellie with Marlow, who is the third narrator/frame. The unnamed narrator functions as both a teller of Marlow’s tale to us and a listener to Marlow. The significance of these frames can be analysed by looking at three effects which this arrangement produces. The usage of Marlow as narrator instead of Conrad himself became

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    Narrative intelligent leaders are significant to organizations, as they lead by storytelling, they are simultaneously influencing others through trust and communication. The purpose of this communication analysis is to highlight and describe how the narrative leader style of Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, ultimately inspires her followers. First, it will provide insight by outlining her narrative approach based on her speeches, presentations, and podcasts in addition to, the literature available

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    Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, is a revolutionary romantic novel that, through a unique narrative style and craft, broke off from the Realism of societal writing, bringing a sense of novelty to the novel. This essay will discuss and describe the particular narrative style that Brontë uses, with a focus on how this style separated Brontë from other authors of her time period. Additionally, through the analysis of Jane Eyre’s; plot, characterization, and literary historical context, this essay will

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    In Cold Blood - Narrative Style Capote's structure in In Cold Blood is a subject that deserves discussion. The book is told from two alternating perspectives, that of the Clutter family who are the victims, and that of the two murderers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. The different perspectives allow the reader to relive both sides of the story; Capote presents them without bias. Capote masterfully utilizes the third person omniscient point of view to express the two perspectives. The non-chronological

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    She depends upon the formal storytelling as a narrative strategy in The Hundred Secret Senses. Tan tries to interrelate the past and present through the lives of the step sister’s Olivia and Kwan. In this novel, Tan brings out the reality, dream and ghost story narration through the characters of Olivia

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    in Europe for half a century. This article will analyze The Grand Budapest Hotel from two aspects: artistic style and film theme. I. Artistic style The Grand Budapest Hotel is the work of American director Wes Anderson. His works have a strong personal style: bright colour, the full symmetry of the composition, a straight frame, a deliberately orderly stance, unique visual style and narrative mode. In his film, a sense of humour is often through "Deadpan” expression: actors often deadpan and no body

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    Narrative Style and Structure of James and the Giant Peach       The books that Roald Dahl has written have very interesting narrative styles. In the story James and the Giant Peach, Dahl uses vivid imagination. He uses many imaginary situations but yet at the same time encompasses enough realistic situations that the reader can still relate to it. In James and the Giant Peach, it starts out introducing a boy named James Henry Trotter who lives with his loving mother and father. The narrator

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    narrative styles in Melville’s Bartleby, Poe’s Arthur Gordon Pym, and Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables. How all three authors utilize a “conversational” tone for the function of their work.      In works by three of the most classically American authors of the nineteenth century, Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne, a trait that can be considered common to all three authors is pronounced clearly as a means to their narration. This trait is that of deploying a narrative laden

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    Kazuo Ishiguro’s discursive narrative style serves to construct a subtle connection between Ishiguro himself and his protagonist, Stevens. An incisive analysis of The Remains said by, Critic Meghan Marie Hammond, which pertinently suggests that the novel in its intricacy has an elusive form. However, it should be noted that beneath this seemingly ambiguous form, there is a precision and an underlying order, to Ishiguro’s use of narrative style in The Remains. In this world of the novel, there is

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