An example would be a baby that shakes a rattle after seeing that it can make sounds with movement. ... Nelson emphasizes this concept through her developmental data analysis as she has children demonstrate a clear example of autobiographical memory. ... Nelson suggests for caregivers that wish to encourage this form of thinking that when their toddler recalls their day to encourage them to take an elaborative approach rather than a pragmatic approach thus allowing the child to develop narrative story telling recollection increasing likeliness to achieve autobiographical memory (Katherine, 199...

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Smith doesn't set out to portray Orwell as unreliable but instead infers that autobiographical works are not completely precise. The quote from the question continues, "Cultural tropes and metaphors which structure autobiographical narrative are themselves fictive; and narrative is drawn by its own fictive conventions" (Smith 1990: 145). ... Another example can be seen through the character Bozo, who remains upbeat despite difficult circumstances. ... Smith continues, "Cultural tropes and metaphors which structure autobiographical narrative are themselves fictive; and narrative is drawn b...

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One of Murdoch's most celebrated novels, The Sea, The Sea, provides a fitting example of the nature of the blinding fantasy through which a person creates a Self. ... Narrative Psychologist Jerome Bruner is an influential writer on the topic of Self. ... He also speaks about the culture of story telling, where as soon as one begins to learn to speak, becomes familiar with how to use narrative in order to recount and bring to together the contradictory experiences of one's life. ... Further, autobiography is generally used to create a particular type of identity, which is generally...

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Our concerned for today is a production that is universally regarded as the finest example of a slave narrative tradition and Douglass' most accomplished work, that is to say the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself. ... In fact, there were other slave narratives in his time, some told by former slaves to white writers, and Douglass wanted to distinguish his work from other such narratives. ... Like many slave narratives, Douglass' Narrative was prefaced with endorsements by white abolitionists. ... In fact, we can say that Douglass'...

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The examples given are private office practice, portable practice, practice in a large company, retirement home, day care center, or school. ... Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. ... One of the best known fugitive slave narratives of the civil war period, this gives an autobiographical account of Douglass' life as a plantation slave in rural Maryland, his later life as a skilled ship's caulker in a seaport, and his attempts to flee to the north and leave slavery. The brief narrative is nonetheless detailed and selects incidents that give a taste of th...

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Narrative peculiarities in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway- This essay (that I would rather consider as an analysis) will deal with the narration, narrator and narrative techniques of V. ... (If we already might go into detailed examples, one such but not the only is Mrs Dalloway's relationship with Sally. ... Definition of Narrator; multiplicity of narrative voices. ... Some narratives will employ several different narrators ( - " - ), others only one. Narrators can be described with adjectives: they may seem to be objective, involved, omniscient, limited, autobiographical, unreliab...

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This narrative is far different than the autobiographical narratives written by former prisoners. ... It was up to the parents to lead by example, only asking or suggesting a child perform a task, never demanding obedience. ... For example, Europeans considered native men lazy and irresponsible because they allowed women to do all the farming and harvesting, a traditionally male role in European society. ... Such self-aggrandizement filled Williams" narrative in cases of arguing with the Jesuits. He gains a great celebrity among New Englanders after the publishing of his narrative and cann...

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The play Mingus Remixed takes the stance of an autobiographical narrative told by Charles Mingus himself and presents its plot through an inner dialogue between him and his acquaintances; and, although it strives for historical realism this work is still fiction derived from Barry Shabaka Henley's imagination. ... In example after performing in Burd's tour he ends up not getting paid, and also he is removed from Duke Ellington's orchestra almost immediately after joining it because of an altercation with another band member. ... Shabaka utilizes the "essential narrative&quo...

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One theory could be that of an educational goal over a narrative one. ... For example, the beginning of chapter 2 includes the statement, "[the black man] is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the view-point of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the view-point of a coloured man... Again, the reader finds yet another disruption of the narrative due to the author's intent to enlighten. ... His description of "the Club" extends beyond autobiographical account to express the physical, mental, and emotional forces present in the establishment. ... Here, not...

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One possible reason why Christian morality, and religious repression is a key theme is both novels, is that both are autobiographical to a certain extent. ... To the question whether the novel is autobiographical, Winterson answered equivocally "No not at all and yes of course-. ... Hardy's victimised chief character is female also, therefore it could not be autobiographical in its strictest definition. ... The complexity of Winterson's novel comes with its fragmented narrative. ... These sections are imbedded amongst the chronological narrative. ...

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Some of her works such as poems are even considered to be autobiographical kind of poems. ... Wolfe is among the most celebrated authors of the early 20th century, and is credited for paving the way for autobiographical fiction genre, thus there is no doubt that Angelou's respect and knowledge of the author's work assisted in strengthening her autobiographical works. ... An example of a simile in the poem include the part where describes where a woman is called an old lady and chided at for moving and talking like winter's molasses (Braxton 38). ... Angelou relied on black liter...

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For instance, In Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, author Alison Bechdel shows some youth experiences like her faltering relationship with her father, the breakdown of her parents' marriage, and her own explorations of sexuality with one of the most intelligent and insightful autobiographical comics. ... Bechdel by drawing separate scenes from her infancy, puberty, and young maturity finds patterns that some readers can reconstruct by moving around the narrative in a flexible, non-linear manner. For example, use of scene-to-scene panel can be represented when Alison accidentally cut her fing...

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In Bennett's: A Cream Cracker under the Settee, the monologist has chosen to incorporate a rich and diverse continuum of emotions to enhance the narrative. ... Facial expressions and vocal tones are just two examples of variables that can be altered according to the nature of the speech, be it an angry demand, ("Hey! ... To conclude these analyses the main difference between Loops of Peaches, and the Talking Heads monologues is that mine is more of a video diary type genre whereas the Talking Heads monologues are far more like an impromptu autobiographical speech. ...

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They can be comprised of only one narrative or a collection of short individual stories. ... Examples of these are Marvel and DC, with superheroes Batman or Spiderman. ... A third type is the personal narrative. These are sometimes referred to as perzines, and are autobiographical stories (What is a Graphic Novel, getgraphic.org). ...

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She is widely acclaimed for her autobiographical essays about her struggles with disabilities. ... Mairs explains this through the use of anecdote, division into parts, analogy, reasoning, narrative, and example. ... Another example of her appeal to reason is her attempt to explain how people look at her. ... She gives an example of a specific experience when she went with her husband to a large resort to see the Dalai Lama. ... Other examples of the emotional appeal she provides is the list of "dead" metaphors. ...

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For example, a participant who knows that his or her cousin was closely involved in their upbringing is likely to guess that he or she was present at an important event without any actual memory of the fact. ... For example, my earliest memory is from when I was about four years old and my grandmother gave me a piece of amethyst in a wooden quart basket similar to one you buy berries in. ... For example, a question asked what the baby was doing when you first saw him or her and most people know that newborns spend most of their time sleeping, eating or crying. ...

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For example, a participant who knows that his or her cousin was closely involved in their upbringing is likely to guess that he or she was present at an important event without any actual memory of the fact. ... For example, my earliest memory is from when I was about four years old and my grandmother gave me a piece of amethyst in a wooden quart basket similar to one you buy berries in. ... For example, a question asked what the baby was doing when you first saw him or her and most people know that newborns spend most of their time sleeping, eating or crying. ...

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For example, when searching on google.com, and typing in the keywords, "postmodern fiction- and "Ondaatje- approximately 900 links appear. ... In The English Patient, Ondaatje uses a multi-narrated effect, which creates "fragmented forms, discontinuous narratives, and random-seeming collages of different materials- (Klages). ... An example of Hana and Kip's relationship is when Hana says: "how long did you hold me?... Through the point of view in the novel, the reader is able to learn parts of history in regards to these characters, and although the characters are fictional, the reader...

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Wordsworth's The Prelude is an autobiographical introduction to The Recluse it is Wordsworth's theodicy. ... On this second narrative level he tells the story of the soul's direct commitment with nature: Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Foster"d alike by beauty and by fear. ... In Wordsworth's The Prelude line 271-3 gives an example of personification. ... The word "murmuring" is a word associated with human sounds, another example of the writer personifying the river. Also in Wordsworth's The Prelude, lines 497-501 gives an example of a paradox. ...

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A direct example of this is when James' refers one of Emily Dickinson's poems in her diary, while explaining how she had been asked by her doctor if she'd ever been written for the press like her famous brothers: How dreary to be somebody How public like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog. ... Knowing her familial background and the ideas of each gender's responsibilities that she was surrounded by, James' diary is then a fascinating example of the trials of creating something consistent, the self-projection and self-censoring, the obligatio...

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In his poem Acquainted with the Night v/s written in 1928, we see a prime example of Frost's ability to create a feeling of unease in the reader which leads to a need to understand what is happening and why. From the start Frost challenges the reader by his use of the terza rima stanza style, he combines this with an iambic pentameter meter and then goes on to couple this to such a personal and bleak narrative written in simple language. ... I say this person, because at no time are we given information that tells us the sex of the narrative persona. We assume the narrator is male be...

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Schon's works for the past two decades are good example. ... One gains a flavor of their approach from the opening sentence "Teachers Professional Knowledge Landscapes" (1995): "We want to ask the question of how the embodied, narrative, relational knowledge teachers carry autobiographically and by virtue of their formal education shapes, and is shaped by, their professional knowledge context" (pp. 3). They identify the embodied, narrative, relational knowledge to which they refer as "personal practical knowledge." ...

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Tennyson was a narrative poet, and a dramatic poet. ... "A Sprit Hunts the Years Last Hours" is a example of the way Tennyson designs long stanzas. ... "Locksley Hall" was a autobiographical narrative that was dealing with the lives of marriages and that was one of his most popular poems during his life time. ...

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Societal Rehabilitation Fyodor Dostoyevsky's work in Crime and Punishment can be cited as largely autobiographical. ... Raskolnikov's justification of his crime is the principal example of his radicalism. ... This might constitute the theme of a new narrative "our present narrative is, however, at an end (Dostoyevsky 630). ...

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