The American Revolution was successful due to many key elements and individual. ... In his speech, Henry was a variety of literary techniques to envoke his fellow Americans into the quest for liberty. ... These stylistic devises include allusion, simile, metaphor, and repetition. ... The final stylistic device that Henry uses is repetition. ... There were many key figures that helped the Patriots build momentum prior to the start of the American Revolutionary War, but Patrick Henry was one of the most influential. ...

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Bronte's theme of how a person can be manipulated into love and often times has to find her own integrity in the process, by using the literary elements such as plot and characterization. ... Bronte also uses the stylistic character element of speech to induce a thought that the words of some admirable people often influence others. ... "Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help.""... Yet character elements are not the only means of Bronte's way to display the theme. ... In Jane's case Rochester pinned out Jane's faults and he's doing his part t...

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Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and philosophical movement in Western civilization from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. ... Cropsey employs a variety of artistic techniques to create realistic and stylistic elements. ... The large cloud hovering over the valley helps to frame the entire scene by providing an upper bound to the sky. ... One of the most important elements of The Old Homestead, Wyoming Valley is its lighting and how it affects the other objects in the painting. ...

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That grandmother told him stories which inspired him with a sense of heroism and a desire to help others of his race. ... During his time in other countries he met a number of poets, historians, and others who helped shape his poetry, and even helped him get it published. ... The stanza ends with the literary equivalent of a Cubist subject. ... This stylistic choice is a large part of the message. ... These elements of his life that he describes in Not Without Laughter certainly seem to be reflected throughout his literary career. ...

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They constitute the best-known grouping within the richly diverse range of Icelandic Sagas (see the separate essay Icelandic Sagas in The Literary Encyclopedia). ... His mother invited him to stay there, though she said she could see that it would not help him much, since he was a wanted man throughout the land. ...

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While it is brutal reporting, there are some elements it shares with a war story marked by realism and the experiences and feelings of individuals overwhelmed by death and destruction. ... This work does illustrate characteristics of literary nonfiction. ... Although I don't blame them but it is a intense thing for a person to deal with when they can really do nothing for you knowing you will die while u beg for help. ...

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It came to the point where it was obvious that the man needed help. ... But it didn't last and we had to get help again. ... He needs help and is getting it. ... His drawings also were different in the way he approached them stylistically; some were very accurately drawn showing crisp edges, finished delicately. ... There was something else, a strong bond with the elements. ...

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As the above citation shows, the possibility of reading Hemingway′s short fiction as stories of initiation is supported in literary theory. ... In general, one can say that there is no single precise and universally applicable definition of stories of initiation in literary theory. ... In American literary theory the term first appears after World War II (Freese 94). As the term `initiation′ is borrowed from anthropology, many of the definitions of the literary equivalent are oriented on the original concept. ... There are, however, still some definitions which also find parts of...

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As Taylor explains; "Already a familiar figure in the cafe society of Paris, Marinetti had met and become friendly with a number of important literary and artistic figures... he had written his first play Le Roi Bombance in admiring imitation of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi"3. ... In both cases, Futurist and Anarchist art became symptomatic of the movements' wider desire for political and social liberation, as Varias puts it, "Paris' fin-de-siècle character was also evident in the struggle for stylistic freedom and aesthetic expression that its avant-garde poets, painters, and...

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It will be necessary to analyse the elements of the plot that we deem suitable and finally we will discuss the translators who were picked to take on this challenge. 2.2 The Origins of Asterix The origins of the Asterix series can be traced back to 1959, when the first issue of this bande dessinée appeared in the pages of a French magazine called "Pilote". ...

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After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... It is not the history or the actuality that attracts in Mistry's fiction, but the way he uses these elements. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India literally these days, he does persist in taking literary journeys. ...

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After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... It is not the history or the actuality that attracts in Mistry's fiction, but the way he uses these elements. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India literally these days, he does persist in taking literary journeys. ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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Although urbanisation had been a factor in society since the time of the renaissance, the Industrial revolution, and the associated growth of capitalism and industry in Victorian times saw a massive acceleration in change within both urban and rural communities. However, this change was not merely one of an exodus from the country into the city, or a marginalisation of rural affairs at the expense of rapidly developing urban communities. Although the period from the 1830's to the 1890s undoubtedly saw a great migration from the country to the city and a greater emphasis on the developmen...

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This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ... Eliot even furnished footnotes to help the reader with his The Waste Land. ...

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