The most prominent example that demonstrates God's omnipotence is that his ability to create. ... Aside from the contents, I was impressed with the level of literary complexity of the Qur'an. The messages from the text are conveyed with various literary structures and devices. ... Brown summarizes that the seeming disorganization of Quranic literary expression is in fact a literary device capable of delivering profound effects as if the intensity of the prophetic message were shattering the vehicle of human language in which it was being communicated. ... The literary styles of repet...

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The Final Fantasy series by Square Enix is a clear example of the use of literary devices within a videogame. Square Enix has always used the device of interactive storytelling to set their game interface aside from others. ... Final Fantasy XIII is a clear example of the literary value which a game can have, in addition to its video game exclusive components (such as gameplay and graphics).  ... For example, in chapter 4: Separate Paths, the 6 main characters split apart into 3 teams of 2. ... The many literary devices which Final Fantasy XIII employs work seamlessly into the player's e...

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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. ... Hiss," for example, when spoken is intended to resemble the sound of steam or of a snake. ... Style is the manner of expression of a particular writer, produced by choice of words, grammatical structures, use of literary devices, and all the possible parts of language use. ... The literary terms and rhetorical...

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Bowen uses many different ways of showing the decline within her novel, for example she uses metaphors and imagery. ... This will be further supported by a review of linguistic markers and other literary devices used by the author to emphases the decline. ... Just to be is so intransitive, so lonely " (Bowen, E 1998 p98) It is not just the big house that shows signs of decline for example the mill which once might have been busy and a source of income , now shows a sign of the times. ... Elizabeth Bowen uses linguistic markers and literary devices to reinforce her message that the big house ...

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To Place the book in the context of literary tradition, it would be first useful to define what is meant by literary tradition. ... An example of the issues included in the book are bullying, love, careers advice, racial discrimination and other moral issues. ... The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... For example, there are many literary devices used in Holes' such as, irony, symbolism, humour, euphemisms, metaphors, and the use of mystery and the techniques u...

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To Place the book in the context of literary tradition, it would be first useful to define what is meant by literary tradition. ... An example of the issues included in the book are bullying, love, careers advice, racial discrimination and other moral issues. ... The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... For example, there are many literary devices used in Holes' such as, irony, symbolism, humour, euphemisms, metaphors, and the use of mystery and the techniques u...

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Many critics have observed that in Orlando Woolf absorbs cinematic devices, adapting zooms, change-in-focus, close-ups, flashbacks, dissolves and tracking shots. ... Completing the narrative framing device, the voiceover asserts, "But she is changed. ... As with any literary adaptation, Potter's adaptation of Orlando has been met with much criticism. ... The image of the bumboat woman is there, and the meeting between Orlando and Shelmerdine on the moors is fairly close to the literary version. ... This is one example of effective casting. ...

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Alexander Pope has long been considered one of the greatest satirists that English literary tradition has ever seen. ... Pope tells us that with the aid of certain devices he will explore this theme, and it is at this point that we become acquainted with the "machinery" of the poem. ... This is only one of many striking examples of Pope's use of bathos as a device to aid his satire. In Canto III, we have a fine example of subtlety of Pope's satire, this time a comment on the obsession on the society of early eighteenth century with class and the aristocracy. ... For example, i...

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In Lois Gould's "X: A Fabulous Child's Tale," and Bernice Kanner's "Big Boys Don't Cry: Returning the Macho Message," each author's uses a legion of literary devices to identify the reader with the moral message he or she has dedicated their work's ambition to. ... In each essay, the authors separate their styles using varying literary inclinations such as structure, tone and perspective. ... Kanner uses a more formal non-fictional writing technique from a first person perspective and is filled with examples and scientific facts to establish her idea and deline...

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Later authors like Sappho and Sophocles build on these literary devices in a blending of oral and literate cultures. The advent of Greek theatre, for example, can be considered the perfect example of memory and orality preserved within an early literate tradition. ... Epithets can also serve to establish family lineages as seen with "Menelaos, the son of Atreus" for example. ... Beyond the structure of the poem, however, perhaps Homer's greatest device is the use of simile and metaphor to create images that were clear to his illiterate audience. ... Homer is an example of an author w...

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Later authors like Sappho and Sophocles build on these literary devices in a blending of oral and literate cultures. The advent of Greek theatre, for example, can be considered the perfect example of memory and orality preserved within an early literate tradition. ... Epithets can also serve to establish family lineages as seen with "Menelaos, the son of Atreus" for example. ... Beyond the structure of the poem, however, perhaps Homer's greatest device is the use of simile and metaphor to create images that were clear to his illiterate audience. ... Homer is an example of an author w...

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It is language devices such as these that Orwell uses through the narrator to explain further to the reader Winston's feelings and not purely as devices to elevate his writing style. The use of these literary devices increases throughout the book as Winston's emotions towards the party and Big Brother formulate, harden and are then systematically crushed by O"Brien. ... For example during the "Two Minute Hate", the reader is able to track Winston's changing emotions through the process, "at one moment Winston's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the con...

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The term was invented by Émile Zola (1902), a French writer and the most important figure of the literary school of naturalism. ... In what many consider to be Chekhov's masterwork, "The Seagull," is a great example of the problem with which the talented dramatist, in a principally censored period, was faced. ... Quite reasonably, if average publicans are the bulk of modern plays, they should talk, as today's society would expect average publicans to talk - in colloquial language as opposed to that of nobles or the upper class - who distinguish themselves with sophisticated, literar...

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Eyes are perhaps one of the most significant icons of such literary piece, as they illustrate not only crucial themes within the novel, but also the character's most intimate longings and life contemplations. Through such symbolic literary device, Firdaus reveals an unceasing quest for ultimate (almost divine) revelation, constantly seeked through eyes of impelling, resolute characters. ... "...I saw all heads turn towards me, and all eyes staring in my direction, countless eyes transfromed under my gaze into innumerable rings of white sorrounding innumerable rigns of black which t...

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In a situation where the reader does not have "direct access to a character´s [inner] thoughts and feelings (Edmondson 20), other than in traditional novels where the literary minds are transparent and the reader knows everything about them. ... Thereby Virginia Woolf uses connecting devices like the common past of certain characters, or public events attended by several characters, in order to procure for the reader an insight into how each character experiences a certain issue, and what their respective thoughts on the occurring issues are. Such a connecting device is presented when Cl...

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A poignant feature of the literary version of Anne Frank's Diary centred around the point that Anne's childish innocence was to be shattered by the events of the world around her. This feature was perhaps lost on audiences along with the realities of life in hiding as the use of cinematic devices, particularly the highly emotive soundtrack clearly resulted in romanticising the hiding' experience. ... Spielberg's Schindler's List', Benigni's Life is Beautiful' and Polanski's The Pianist' are just a few recent examples. ... Some critic...

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For example, in the novel, he says, "It was dark when I awoke, I felt cold and half frightened as it was instinctively, finding myself so desolated, feeling pain invade me, I sat down and wept" (Shelley, p.35). ... Examples of the involvements would be separation, affection and happiness. ... This basically negotiates Shelley's idea, by altering it to a device for performing so that she can make money for her work. ... For example, this is portrayed in the two movies: Frankenweenie, and Alvin and the Chipmunks especially when they meet Frankenstein. ... For example, in one division it s...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses literary devices such as imagery, metaphor, anthropomorphism, and a stream-of-consciousness narrative to depict the journey to self-discovery through the lens of progressive mental illness in The Yellow Wallpaper. ... This example illustrates the dissociation that the narrator begins to suffer from as mental illness progresses. ...

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For example, the information must be secret, not of public knowledge or of general knowledge in the trade or business. ... In 1964, the National Copyright Office began to register software as a form of literary expression. ... Apollo, where the Supreme Court determined that a piano roll used in a player piano did not infringe upon copyrighted music because the roll was part of a mechanical device. ...

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With these words, Thomas Jefferson embarked on a literary journey into the evils of the institution of British rule in the American colonies. ... But perhaps the most important of these accusations and that which is the most telling about the attitude of the American colonists is the argument against "abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies" . ... Until 1660 the colonies in N...

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As history progressed, major occurrences, namely the rise of the feminist thought cycle, has had heavy influence on this steady process of literary devices becoming conventional in our everyday discourse, in order to define those prevalent changes in the way that we perceive the differences in sexes. ... They employ examples of romantic breakup statistics within "traditional societies" around the world such as the "Ache of Paraguay"(Perilloux & Buss, 165), illustrating the infallibility and unavoidability of some level of divorce in all culture. ...

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This symbolism, particularly when coupled with Stoker's use of realism not only acts as a thought-provoking device, but endows his story with a depth rarely found in gothic novels. ... Stoker's choice of the epistolary form, a literary genre diminishing towards the end of the nineteenth century, also conveys his aim to establish a sense of realism in his story. ... For example, we learn that Jonathan Harker's journal is "kept in shorthand" , while Dr Seward's is "kept in phonograph."...

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In 1368 Petrarch wrote De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia (On his own ignorance and that of many others), which became a significant example of the contrast of humanism of the Renaissance to scholasticism of the Middle Ages. ... It was during this expulsion that he wrote The Prince, which not only was based on previous Roman political examples, but it combined some humanistic ideals into his innovatory view of the state. Machiavelli stressed the need to conquer new lands and for princes to maintain their power through any means necessary, using Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia, and Julius II as h...

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Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. ... La Senora's occupations swing from massage therapist to the attempt of mass production of "bizarre devices- like "never- fail breast with candy nipple- and the like (123-124). ... It is hard to admit, but the way she handles her womanhood as a highest gift is an example to me. ...

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