https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt en-us 2018-03-08 16:57:29 UTC 2025-11-20 20:18:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239778964 The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
The theme in the story "The Painted Door" was loneliness, isolation and irony because Ann always felt as if her husband was not in her life and that she lived a lonely life with nothing to do.

]]> 2018-03-08 17:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239778964 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239782576 A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
Example from "The Happiness Machine"' 
"..whirring golden bees as big as teacups." (4)]]> 2018-03-08 17:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239782576 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239784353 Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
Example from "The Happiness Machine" 
"The wheels of his happiness machine spun whirling golden light spokes along the ceiling of his head." (2)

]]> 2018-03-08 17:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239784353 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239784471 The reason behind a character's specific action or behavior.
Example from "The Happiness Machine"
"But Leo Auffman was gone, pedaling off through the warm summer evening, his voice drifting back." (1) ]]> 2018-03-08 17:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239784471 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239784519 Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.
Example from "The Landlady"
"But my dear boy, he never left. He's still here. They're on the third floor, both of them together." (4)]]> 2018-03-08 17:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239784519 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239784791 Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
Example from "The Happiness Machine"
"A great cloud of smoke poured through the kitchen. ''Happiness!'' she wailed."' (3)]]> 2018-03-08 17:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/239784791 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539039 In literature, the word ‘setting’ is used to identify and establish the time, place and mood of the events of the story. It basically helps in establishing where and when and under what circumstances the story is taking place.
Example from "Happiness"
"And there, at the farthest edge of the horizon, Corsica disappeared into the night, sank back slowly into the sea, it's great shadow fading away..." (5)]]> 2018-03-15 18:24:58 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539039 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539110 The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
In "The Happiness Machine" Leo Auffman makes a machine that he thinks will bring his family happiness, but events such as his wife testing the happiness machine and it setting on fire, made him understand where his true happiness should be from (his family).  ]]> 2018-03-15 18:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539110 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539171 The perspective from which a story is told (can be in first person, second person and third person).
 The story "Never Stop On The Motorway"' is told from a third person view because the writer refers to the character by her name and by "she". ]]> 2018-03-15 18:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539171 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539268 An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Example from "The Happiness Machine"
"The children, who had been screaming horribly at each other, fell silent as if the red death had entered at the chiming of the clock."  (4)]]> 2018-03-15 18:25:24 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539268 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539356 Prevailing feeling that is created in the story. The atmosphere usually sets up the readers expectations about the ending or outcome of the plot. Atmosphere is usually created through the dialogue and the imagery.
Example from "Happiness"
"And he had been everything for her, everything one desires, everything one dreams of, everything one constantly waits for, everything one endlessly hopes." (4)]]> 2018-03-15 18:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539356 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539475 A term used to describe the fictional persons who carry out the action of a story. It also refers to the personality and moral attitudes of a fictional person. 
Example from "The Painted Door"
"He was a slow, unambitious man, content with his farm and cattle, naively proud of Ann" (2)]]> 2018-03-15 18:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539475 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539579 A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning.
Example from "Happiness" because the world 'love' filled a salon 
"..fluttering through it like a bird, hovering in it like a spirit." (1)]]> 2018-03-15 18:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539579 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539697 A device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
Example from "Happiness"
"And all of a sudden it came back to me. A long time ago, it had caused terrible scandal in noble Lorraine." (4)

]]> 2018-03-15 18:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539697 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539768 Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears at the ns about the coming events in a story.beginning of a story, or a chapter, and helps the reader develop expectations.
Example from "The Happiness Machine"
"Savor the very bacteria in their mouths that would someday stop them dead." (1)]]> 2018-03-15 18:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539768 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539818 The feeling of anxiety and uncertainty experienced by the reader about the outcome of events or the protagonist's destiny.
Example from "The Landlady"
"...he hadn't even have time to take his finger from the bell-button - the door swung open and a woman was standing there." (2)]]> 2018-03-15 18:26:27 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242539818 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242647948 The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Example from "The Happiness Machine"
"Silent now, too, head back, he listened to the elm leaves above, hissing in the wind." (2)]]> 2018-03-16 01:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242647948 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242647987 A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Example from "The Happiness Machine"
"Moving toward the porch, he could feel his wife's smile there in the dark." (2)]]> 2018-03-16 01:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242647987 080_sflamand https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242670166 The general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader.
Example from "Happiness"
"A feeling of anguish and fear seized me at the thought of those fifty years passed in this dark hole, so far from towns where people live." (3)]]> 2018-03-16 04:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/080_sflamand/kzad24tbrbtt/wish/242670166