Reader Response is a literary criticism technique that helps the reader better understand the text and the world around them. Reader Response critics can sum up their analysis by answering this question: What is the reading process, and what happens during it (Bressler, Literary Criticism An Introduction To theory and Practice, page 62)? ... David Bleich, founder of "subjective criticism (Bressler, Literary Criticism An Introduction To Theory and Practice, page 68), explains that a reader's personal response to the text is not the same as an interpretation. ... The Reader Response lit...

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Techniques This poem is full of the many literary techniques available. ... Another literary technique is an allusion to classical mythology, when it refers to the nine muses' which are the daughters of Zeus. ... The 3rd technique would be personification, where the bee and flower and other things are given the human-like attribute of matrimony, to aid us in letting us see how in the natural world there are things that were created and made for each other like humans and their companions. The last technique is the rhyming structure, which helps us by making it more rhythmic and easy ...

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The idea of Emily's work has baffled and intrigued literary researchers for years. ... Literary researchers say that it's hard to "confirm or deny the nature of her relations ships with them- (Poetry 3). ... Literary researchers say that Emily had her own unique form of writing. ... Emily also has a different approach to poetic technique and expression. ...

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"Rappaccini's Daughter" Out of the window of a gloomy chamber of an old edifice was a beautiful garden. The overflowing garden was filled with many beautiful poisonous flowers. However, no one new of what was to come of this garden and all the poisons in it. Imagery and irony are shown throughou...

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Apart from this, it is apparent that Hornby has developed a complex character through integrating gender stereotypes into one realistic personality, a technique also seen in his other novels. ... In light of this, this critique shall use the Feminist Literary Theory. ... The critique hopes to be faithful to the principle of Feminist Literary Criticism in that it will be "an academic approach to the study of literature which applies feminist thought to the analysis of literary texts and the contexts of their production and reception" (Goodman xi). ... This is very characteristic o...

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When I see the book, at first I always think of the words which Joe says: "If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked." 3.Dicken left us lots of literary works. ... Technique of writing: He has the gift of imaginative insight, a playwright's ear for dialogue and, above all, an ability to sum up scene or a character in a wholly original but startlingly exact image. ...

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Wilde uses many literary devices to create comedy in this play one of the most promentent of these devices is the unexpected and backward logic frequently used by the characters. ... And different techniques are used to create it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School