- Motif - an idea or a theme that recurs throughout a play, story or poem - Setting - Paradox - idea that cannot be understood but has a deeper meaning alienation Ability to explain author's use of techniques to affect reader. ... /plot (entire story/text)/theme (main ideas)/tone/ mood/feeling/atmosphere)/structure (punctuation/ etc.)... - Use the technic of P.Q.E: P: Point to be proven Q: A quote which ties back to the point to be proven (Paraphrasing is allowed but not encouraged) E: Explain the quote and point to be proven...

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The protagonist of the play (The African American woman), goes on to say, "My lover told me: Shush, we have too many stories to carry on our backs like houses, we have struggled too long to let the monsters steal our sleep, sleep, go to sleep". This quote is saying that, their ancestors have struggled and suffered too long, to let people like the 'KKK', come and instill fear in their minds, but it is time to overcome the fear, and not allow the KKK to scare them. ... The last part of the quote foreshadows this poor woman's fate at the end of all the drama, she says &q...

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Other than the formatting of the poems, the given stories are different. ... Lord Alfred varies from Keats in that he tells of a story in which he comes across a new land with his crew that seems to be ever so wonderful. ... Take for instance this quote, "A land of streams! ... The two authors use different lengths to tell their stories, one short and sweet but gives a lot of meaning within a few short lines of a stanza and the other is long, drawn out and takes you to where he wants you to be, in his home. ... It seems as though one can get emotionally attached to the story given to him ...

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"When glided in Prophyria; straight/ She shut the cold out and the storm/ And kneeled and make the cheerless grate/ Blaze up, and all the cottage warm;/ Which done, she rose, and from her from/ Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl/ And laid her soiled gloves by, united/ Her hat and let the damp hair fall/ And, last, she sat down by my side" This quote describes so much. ... The last line of this quote expresses how the man feels inferior to the woman's belongings. ... It is a very descriptive story that slowly helps the reader understand the mental and emotional status of the speaker....

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Diction PEEL A Fabulous quote by Barbara Kingsolver, in "High Tide in Tucson" referring to how art is forgotten around the world, while centuries into the past art was the way of communication and living. ... This controversy brings argumentative responses, depending on the way the reader feels while reading this quote. ... Tone PEEL During the passage, the author plays with different tones to create various feelings the two characters are going through in the story. ... During the first stanza the author uses a wide range of imagery, focusing attention to each and every one of th...

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A ballad is a song that tells a story. ... "Oh yeah life goes on, Long after the thrill of living is gone- This quote comes from Jack wanting something from Diane, but Diane is giving life lessons. ... I like the fact that this song tells a story with an irregular rhyme scheme. Most modern songs today tell stories insides its rhyme scheme. This song was different in its scheme and told more of a story. ...

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(Quoted by John Malcolm Brinnin, Dylan Thomas in America). ... This was a collection of new poems and short stories along with The World I Breathe, a collection of poems and stories taken mainly from earlier volumes (The Craft and Art of Dylan Thomas, William T. ... Probably due to the outbreak of war, even the autobiographical stories published in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940) eventually a very popular work, failed to bring him much immediate income (British Writers, Ian Scott-Kilvert). ...

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To turn, what would have been, autobiographies into myth his "stories" (including Richard Cory) take place in a fictitious town called Tillbury. ... The above quote shows that the last line of the poem ends with a period, which isn't a necessity when writing poetry. ... By the end of the poem though, as the story unfolds and it is said that Richard Cory has committed suicide, the descriptive words are no longer so gentle. ... Edwin Arlington Robinson took what could have been a complex story if told by a novelist, and summed it up into sixteen lines. ... A poem, which starts out so swee...

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Fulfilling your needs and desires in Nikki Giovanni's "Master Charge Blues- In Nikki Giovanni's poem "Master Charge Blues- we are told a story of how a woman misses her mate and uses her master charge to escape the feeling of loneliness. ... After reading this poem and the quote listed above, I feel as though this poem was very meaningful to the writer. ...

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He is worn out from picking all the apples, and feels he could sleep for an entire winter, as you can see in the quote; "And I keep hearing from the cellar bin The rumbling sound Of load on load of apples coming in. ... Death is symbolic of death, and the man in the story does not know if the death will be renewed in the spring, or if everything will stay dead in the snow forever. ...

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"The Kraken" is a poem that tells the story of a mythical monster that has been slumbering at the bottom of the sea for thousands of years only to be disturbed by the end of the world causing the monster to rise to the modern world. ... This quote also makes the reader understand how long the Kraken has been there because the word is old English. ... The "Jabberwocky" is structured differently because it has seven stanzas: each stanza continues on the story, linking to each other every time. ...

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Robert Frost was considered the "most popular modern American poet of the twentieth century" (Literature Online 1). His use of natural images and traditional poetic technique give him a fashion that is desirable to the fictitious ears. Throughout his literary career, Frost had been both celeb...

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People might think that this poem is a story of a dancer from Harlem. ... An example of this is in the quote "I knew her self was not in that strange place," implying that he knows she can make something better of her life. By the speaker's reaction to the dancers few actions, I think that there is a larger story behind the breif scenario presented in the poem. ...

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"Poetry gave me a rebirth at age twenty-nine" (American Literature 3591), Anne quoted many times during her career. ... Through out her career, Anne wrote not only poetry but also short stories and books for children as well. ...

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The native group's lessons show native folklore, myths, and stories of the "supernatural" reveal important truths. ... This quote shows that he believes in the value that says, cultures that are closer to nature, or "less civilized" are better off spiritually. ...

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Myth plays an extremely essential role in modern literature. It is used by poets, novelists and playwrights in varying degrees to indirectly draw attention to given situations in their societies, criticize and seek correcting them so as to improve their communities' conditions of life. Sometimes, it...

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He wrote unoriginal poems and stories for popular magazines and made political speeches, for which Tammany Hall democrats rewarded him with the editorship of various short-lived newspapers. ... The New York Times Book Review gave this quote "new poem after new poem makes clear how deeply each Frost poem bears on all Frost poems, and how surely all are a constant symbol of his life's commitment to making metaphors that clarify the dark paradoxes they contain. Probably the most famous quote was given by President Kennedy "his death impoverishes us all; but he has bequeathed his nation a b...

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This comedic turn shows the difference between the noble, allegorical characters in the story (Alcyone, Juno, Seys) and the realistic, human characters of the poet's world. ... The story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible would have been known to most people through stories, but the reference to Macrobius's Latin commentary on the earlier Latin writer Cicero's  Dream of Scipio  was erudite. ... The proem sets the stage for the main story of this poem, the narrator's dream. ... The windows of the chamber in which he lies are stained glass, and they depict the story of the Tro...

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Predominant was the free use of indirect speech, the use of comparison, overwhelming use of personification, irony, metaphor, hyperbole, symbolism, discontinuous narrative, and psychoanalysis etc. and allusion to myths and stories from another time was also popular. ... " is quoted because Prufrock is uncertain if he should do it or not. ...

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Certainly one of the most unique poets to write life's story through his own view of the world and with the ambition to do it was Walter Whitman. ... Whitman immediately seized on this, placing quotes of the praise on the binding of his second edition and also including the entire letter in the back of the book, as well as his own response. ...

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The quote itself actually is a good example of how Keats brings about a cold feel to the poem at this point, which is ironic as we associate cold temperatures with loss. ... Nature and man's representations in each of the poems are all quite different, but all have a part in the basic story of this on-going interaction between man and nature. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", being the earliest of the three poems, has the "knight-at-arms", a chivalrous character, and the "full beautiful faery's child", a fantasy character, as nature and man's representations, as the whole poem has...

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