Today's average reader does not usually stop to ponder the gender of an author and what impact a male or female hand may have on a body of literature. However, if analyzed closely, any given text may expose a distinct structural element associated with the author's gender. ... Though the tendency to employ a rambling poetic composition could be used to characterize the structure of a woman's writing, the results convey purpose and deliver an authentic thought process for the characters in their stories. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Grade Level: all Subject Area: Language_Arts Essential Skills and Strategies: Writing: Essential Learning # 1: student writes clearly and effectively 1.1 develop concept and design 1.2 use style appropriate to audience and purpose 1.3 apply writing conventions 2.2 writes for different purpose 2.3 writes in a variety of forms 3.1 prewite 3.2 draft 3.5 publish Materials: Computer with internet access Computer with word processing program Paper and writing implement Dictionary and or Thesaurus Web sites used with the lesson: 1. ... An "about the author" section in the back will also be a par...

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Both authors use literary devices such as alliteration and imagery. ... Brown chose not to use personification in his writing, it would have given the reader a sense that the land was alive or had some joy left to it. ... Brown also uses alliteration in his writing; "Arapahos roamed restlessly,"(Brown68) and "that summer it seemed"(Brown68). ... Momaday are using the same literary devices the purposes are still to tell the reader about their land, whether it is ugly or beautiful. ... Throughout the essays they use a great deal of literary devices to prove their purposes through. ...

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The author wants those who read Death, be not proud to question Death and how people look at it. ... The author hopes that readers will see how insignificant Death is compared to the big picture of what life offers. ... Writing it in this form successfully gets Donne's point across despite the difficulty in writing such a challenging poem. ... The way the author describes Death, makes it seem like it's not a big deal and to not let its negative connotation outweigh the positive. ... While they are both extremely well written and poetic sonnets that give off a strong purpose about...

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However, in the last two lines of the poem, which are indented for the purpose of standing out, recognizing the change in attitude, and showing the point of the poem, the speaker proclaims that his love is as said in lines 13 and 14 of "Sonnet 130" -as rare/As any she belied with false compare". ... As said in line 13 of "Sonnet 57" So true a fool is love that in your will", shows that the author knows that he is loves fool. ... In conclusion, many people my age do not recognize or appreciate Shakespeare because of the style of writing or the prolonged stories. ... He may use different stylin...

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These observations of Shakespeare's also put to shame the over the top ramblings of other authors odes of love to their women, the hidden meaning (purpose?) ... Shakespeare's usage of figures of speech and detailed storytelling to put across the themes of his writing was one of the things that set him apart from his contemporaries. ...

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They may serve a purpose as in teaching a lesson, describing a mood, sharing an emotion, or conveying an idea that the author wishes. Many authors have written poems stating their own definitions of poetry to expand on that of the dictionary. ... Hughes was writing in the first half of the twentieth century. ... The title of Hansberry's play comes from Hughes's poem which had a double purpose. ... One way that authors exhibit this is through the use of imagery. ...

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When reading "The Harlem Dancer", the reader really has to analyze the poem in order to understand what the author is talking about. ... The writing goes on to talk metaphorically about the dancer and how unhappy she was with her position. ... Another example of how words can portray a message is how the author describes the characters. ... The purpose of McKay's poem was to allow his readers to understand the struggles of all African Americans so that Americans could try to change their ways of treating them. ... McKay uses the English sonnet way of writing for his rhyme sche...

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When reading "The Harlem Dancer", the reader really has to analyze the poem in order to understand what the author is talking about. ... The writing goes on to talk metaphorically about the dancer and how unhappy she was with her position. ... Another example of how words can portray a message is how the author describes the characters. ... The purpose of McKay's poem was to allow his readers to understand the struggles of all African Americans so that Americans could try to change their ways of treating them. ... McKay uses the English sonnet way of writing for his rhyme sche...

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Eliot's Rhapsody on a Windy Night This poem seemed to have no purpose but to tell a story at first, but after rereading it, I found many interesting things that point to something bigger, however, I am not sure what. ... The author then speaks of the child's eyes and the things he has seen in the street. He just leads one thing into another, as if writing everything that occurs in his mind when he sees something. ...

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The author is indicating that a child is like a snowdrop because a child is pure, like the color white, and can replenish it's mind by itself. The author is hoping that their child will not have the disability in which they can not reset their mind because of a mental condition. ... The author uses a nostalgic tone in the first few stanzas, but as the poem progresses, her mood switches to one of sadness and despondence. ... The author reinforces this idea through the use of implied metaphors, stanza and sentence structure, and symbols. ... The author's purpose of writing this poem, ...

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The purpose of her poems are to record her thoughts and feelings that she has experienced throughout her life that was devoted to relfection and pure creativity. ... Morrisons writing technique is very different from other novelists. ... Both authors' works are thought provoking and are not what you see in other writers' works. Both Morrison and Dickinson have a unique writing style. ... After Dickinson was advised by Higginson not to publish her works, she kept on writing and creating new works without trying to change her writing style. ...

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According to Isabella Sobejano, author of "Author, Poet, Thinker, Chilean Politician and Diplomat," she stated that on her visit to one of three homes Neruda had, the majority of his time was writing and living in Isla Negra (meaning Black Island). ... My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose. ... Neruda describes "loving what he does not have" as in not having his love with him and is tired of living with "no purpose". ... He is hungry and tired because his life has no purpose. ...

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Owen wanted the reader to take out of the poem the feelings he had placed in it writing. ... The reader's emotional and physical reaction towards this poem will support how effective the author's use of imagery is in this poem. ... His purpose to unleash the sarcastic significance of "Dulce Et Decorum Est," was successfully scripted through his poetic technique, language, imagery and similes. ...

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The words authors choose are arranged to express the feelings of the characters in a way so that we can relate. ... By writing about the death of someone she never knew, Thaxter proves a husband's love for his wife and she does this through death. ... This is like saying that the purpose women have had and what they have done so far no longer matters. ... They were accused of being overly sentimental and being obsessed with death, but they were writing about an important movement. Women were writing about changes in their role as wives, lovers, child rearers, and members of society. ...

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This piece of writing contains two very powerful lines at the beginning and end of the poem: "The child's wisdom is in saying, they say what they see when they see it." ... Life often ends as the poem does, in a gray boring blend; the purpose of this poem is to advise people to take advantage of their early years so they will have something to remember in those last years of life. ... The mood in this poem seems very melancholy since every time a positive aspect is mentioned the author adds a negative one to die the mood back down. ...

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As she matured, this "fondness- grew, she eventually became an English professor and famed poet that greatly influenced writing in the U.S. ... So by helping introduce people to poetry and widening the audience for poetry, I do think my term has served a more serious purpose."" ... The never ending wave of recognition has kept her writing in the spotlight. ... In her eyes she is trying "to combine historical occurrences with the epiphanal quality of the lyric poem- (Contemporary Authors). ... The other theme represented by Dove's writing is the theme of women's rights. ...

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Throughout our history, America has generated many great authors. These authors write works of literature that educate us, entertain us, and empower us. Two great authors that America has generated are Walt Whitman and Robert Frost. In researching these two authors, a question arose. ... After several years spent at various jobs, including building houses, he began writing a new kind of poetry and thereafter neglected business. ...

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Although it is defined a poetry of fragments, there is throughout the poem a theme linearity, due to the cycle technique used by Tennyson in order to illustrate certain fundamental laws behind human time and natural time, nevertheless it is a non-linearity structure that prevails in the poem, reflecting the author's concept of non-linearity time. ... Anyway, in section 22 it is described a sort of experience of the author and Hallam that consists in a fall out of natural or seasonal time, they coexist with the natural passing of the seasons and at the end this cyclical time changes int...

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• Grade Level: High School