Sentences with phrase «dramatic devices employed»

A detailed 19 slide PowerPoint lesson on dramatic devices employed by J.B. Priestley within «An Inspector Calls.

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Nonetheless it is remarkable to find these ancient authors employing all the modern devices of the literary craftsman, surprise and suspense, rapidity and delay, humor and solemnity, vividness, realism, untempered callousness, dramatic shift of scene — all permeated with their feeling for what is intrinsically interesting, what makes a good story.

For instance, Self Born, 1949, while taking full advantage of the «drip, blob, and spatter» method used by Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell, among others, went one dramatic step further by employing these devices not against the kind of flat, implied space that existed in Pollock's and Motherwell's canvases but within the infinite, clearly defined atmospheric space also found in the works of such Surrealists as Dali and Tanguy.

The first major survey of the artist's work in Australia, Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future builds on this interest in collective history and dramatic reconstruction, employing the device of a playback system to convulsively shuttle and scroll through moments of memory and cultural amnesia.