Literature also makes up a unique reading styles because of the different literary terms and rhetorical devices that it possesses such as simile, metaphor, imagery and many more. ... Allusion is a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. ... Flashback is a device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction. ... Style is the manner of expression of a particular writer, produced by choice of words, grammatical structures, use of literary devices, and all the pos...

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Wespazjan Kochowski, the poet responsible for the Polish Baroque-style poem, A Curse on the Sons, of the Crown: Who Disrupt the Diets, expresses the negativity of Sarmatism with the literary devices of symbolism, metaphor, metonymy, imagery, personification, allusion, and simile. ... The first can be found in Line 1, when he asks a rhetorical question to the, "unheeding sons". ... The book of life is an allusion to Christianity, in which God is believed to have recorded the names of everyone destined for Heaven. ... In conclusion, the negative impact of Sarmatism can be expresse...

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His speech contains several rhetorical devices which indicate his contradiction and insincere tone to the audience. ... The speech also consists of an allusion to understate the importance of his personal life and his actions "This has gone on too much, cost too much and hurt too many innocent people" being the president of any country is as much his personal problem as well as the American citizen's problem. ...

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If one were to gaze upon the statue of "David" by Michelangelo (1475-1564), they would notice the high esteem in which the human body was portrayed. The sculpture almost appears to be a person itself, so real, proportionate, and beautiful that it is uncanny to fathom that it is an interpretation by ...

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