Well, so you don't feel lost after reading this activity you may first read the story "Death by Scrabble", by Charlie Fish on the Internet http://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/scrabble.html
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I find Charlie Fish' s writing style is similar to mine, though he usually uses really simple sentences like:
I find Charlie Fish' s writing style is similar to mine, though he usually uses really simple sentences like:
"I play, appropiately, BEGIN. With the N on the little pink star. Twenty-two points"
or
"She tells me she has lousy letters. For some reason, I hate her more"
But I believe he only uses this simple sentences to make the reader feel some sort of monotony, the one the character has in his life, the lack of exciting things in his every-day life and the rigid, boring routine he has to bear while living with his hated wife.
The whole story makes me admire the writer's creativity. He uses a game that many people find lousy and boring like Scrabble as the center of the story, and makes a bad-turned marriage's life spin around it while he decorates it with annoying flies, hot ewather and even an earthquake.
In this amazingly-built story we can find certain literary devices. The most used device is the image. We can find many examples of this literary device in "Death by Scrabble". A few of them would be:
"It's a blistering hot Sunday afternoon and all I can think of to do with my life is to play Scrabble"
This expresses clearly how hot was the weather in the story.
"The rage gets to my fingertips and passes. My heart is beating. I'm sweating. I think my face actually twitches. Then I sigh deeply, and sit back into my chair"
Here we get the feeling of how mad the character is at his wife.
In the story we can find the presence of few Onomatopeia. An example of it would be:
"An insect, buzzing around above the Scrabble board, surfing the thermals from the tepid cup of tea."
In the story we could say the narrator acts as the protagonist, while his wife is his antagonist character. There are also a couple metaphores, like:
"The heat of the sun is pushing at me through the window"
The writer gives the story a really denotated tone. Through the constant sentences in the story, where the narrator expresses his hate for his wife, we can get a sort of a tense feeling, the feeling that the marriage doesn't work anymore but for some unknown reason they are still together. There are also some sentences and adjectives that gives us the feeling their life is monotonous: uninterrupted sound like the whistle of the kettle, the buzzing of flies or the sound of Scrabble and letters being rearrenged, or the horrible heat that seems to push the main character through the window
