Thus, rather than examine the dramatic elements of the play I will focus on the literary components that it has in terms of characterization, plot, the author's style, Shabaka's tone, and narration from the first person point-of-view. ... In example after performing in Burd's tour he ends up not getting paid, and also he is removed from Duke Ellington's orchestra almost immediately after joining it because of an altercation with another band member. ... Another key literary component is the author's style or the way in which the piece is conveyed or portrayed to the ...

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The essay explores the shift in literary work during the restoration period. ... Pope retaliated by making Theobald the hero in his poem, Dunciad, which is an indisputable example of violent satire. ... In this poem he demonstrates aspects of the restoration period literary work. ... In the poem, he describes ordinary human beings in heroic terms. ... During this period literary work was used to fight vices and instill morals....

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The most prominent example that demonstrates God's omnipotence is that his ability to create. ... These terms show that God is kind, and encourages people to be devoted to God. ... 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. ... The literary styles of repetition, imagery, and parallelism are unique combination that serves their purpose well. ...

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The main problem was that the British and the Bulgarians had no way of communicating on equal terms. ... They marked the waning of the popular religious tract as a dominating presence on the meagre literary scene. ... His was the most popular British literary name in the period discussed. ... The Bulgarian literary milieu very often transformed totally the material from abroad according to its current uses. ... Carlyle appeared twice on the Bulgarian literary scene, both times as a point of reference . ...

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The thinking that was being questioned by the Gothic novel was Augustanism; and without some understanding of Augustan principles and their role in eighteenth-century thought it is difficult to understand the purposes of the Gothic revival, either in terms of history or in terms of the way in which it offered a new conception of the relations between man, nature and a supreme being. ... The Augustan approach was intellectual with formal restraint; while relying on reason and traditionalism to create literary works. ... An interest in those things, which cannot be understood, for example religi...

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The thinking that was being questioned by the Gothic novel was Augustanism; and without some understanding of Augustan principles and their role in eighteenth-century thought it is difficult to understand the purposes of the Gothic revival, either in terms of history or in terms of the way in which it offered a new conception of the relations between man, nature and a supreme being. ... The Augustan approach was intellectual with formal restraint; while relying on reason and traditionalism to create literary works. ... An interest in those things, which cannot be understood, for example religi...

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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. ... A metaphor is derived from a simile in that it equates different things without using connecting terms such as like or as. ... 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. ... The literary terms and rhetorical devices that I have described help makeup the literar...

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For some time now, feminists have examined literary works in terms of the absent/objectified presence of the Other, in whatever form Other might be recognized (for example, anyone not white, male, or educationally and economically privileged). We have also critiqued culture and history in these terms, articulating at least some of the consequences of such constructed oppositions and exclusions. For example, Toni Morrison, in her critical text Playing in the Dark, has argued that everything that constitutes whiteness as a racial identity--from the national literature of the United States to its...

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But can we say then that a romance novel is a non-literary work? ... Until then, romance novels are non-literary. ... It would, for example, be difficult to imagine a literary history of eighteenth-century England without an extended treatment of Berkeley and Hume, Bishop Butler and Gibbon, Burke and even Adam Smith (I think). ... In practice, we get automatic and unprofessional accounts of these authors in terms of their specialty. ... The literary historian is not automatically transformed into a proper historian of these disciplines. ...

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The linoleum cut is called 'Still Life under a Lamp' (1962) it is the most brilliant example of Picasso's one-block linoleum cuts. ... "Often constructivism was overtly propagandist in nature: sometimes by the placement of simple geometric forms in the kind of literary context which turns such forms into representations - (Constructivism 161). ... Early on he had published a literary magazine between 1892 and 1894, while still at the Jesuit college, and in 1898 he published his first work in the new 'free verse' style. ... An innovative and brilliant publicist, he use...

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As Patterson said, "While literature necessarily arises from a historical matrix, it can never be adequately understood in terms of that origin, no matter how carefully the scholar seeks to reconstruct it"(Patterson, p 9). ... Even in the Dharmashastras (Law Books), a literary source, there are biased views due to the Brahman authors. ... Literary texts give information regarding to history, such as geographical clues and cultural traditions. The Rig Veda is considered the earliest piece of literary work in India. ... For example, we learn of the now much-used divine word "om" in the Upanish...

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In "The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, the personality of Montresor is explicitly demonstarted to the audience through numerous literary techniques employed by Poe throughout the story. ... This statement is a shining example of Montresor's fascination with dramatic revenge. ... But he wants it on his own terms, and to reach those he must commit the actions that transpire in the story before he might possibly be satisfied with Fortunado's doom. ... The entire story acts in many ways, as an in depth look into the mental state of a man and as such, Poe's literary methods...

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In simpler terms it can be concluded that in this stanza of her poem, Bradstreet is stating how she is obnoxious to those who believe she should be doing the simple duties of a common woman. ... The last example where Bradstreet reinforces Puritan ideals can be found in Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666.... This does not agree with the Puritanistic ideals that she does a good job portraying later on throughout this literary work. ... With the understanding of these hardships, the tone of Rowlandson's literary work can be much more appreciated. ... A...

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The probably most famous example for a courtly love relationship is the Legend of King Arthur and his wife who fell in love with the knight Sir Lancelot. ... In the actual medieval period the terms 'Amour Honestus' (Honest Love) and 'Fin Amor' (Refined Love) appeared. This concept was new in the Middle Age, because there was no literary or no social framework of romantic passion in the Christian world before the end of the 11th century. ... David Lyle Jeffrey in fact goes beyond this and declares that courtly love was used here as a literary vehicle for social satire (c.f...

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The probably most famous example for a courtly love relationship is the Legend of King Arthur and his wife who fell in love with the knight Sir Lancelot. ... In the actual medieval period the terms 'Amour Honestus' (Honest Love) and 'Fin Amor' (Refined Love) appeared. This concept was new in the Middle Age, because there was no literary or no social framework of romantic passion in the Christian world before the end of the 11th century. ... David Lyle Jeffrey in fact goes beyond this and declares that courtly love was used here as a literary vehicle for social satire (c.f...

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In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... Donnell does an excellent job of not only showing the readers what cool really means to people of African background, but also in giving some examples of why and how that came to be in a very clear way. This topic is a sensitive one, but it becomes a lot more understandable when one can really hear what Donnell is trying to say using the literary devices that he does. ... Sure, Alexander does a wonderful job express...

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The literary crafts used in "The Fall of the House of Usher"" and their effects, materializing the terror and the mystery, are what this paper is going to examine subsequently. ... By embodying multiple doppelganger, not only did Poe boost the intense spook, but he reached a unprecedented success of unifying terror and literary beauty. ... Take the final part for example; after living in the houses for days, the narrator started to hear some usually sounds and at last he burst out in such dramatic tone as "... ... Bailey claims that, "...to assume that Poe made use of vampire lore, skillfull...

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What is literary study? ... On the other hand, literary study is knowledge about literature itself. ... But these efforts only make literature and literary study come to a very complicated relation. ... But this effort replaced the pure literary criteria. ... Traditional literary works fulfill this nature. ...

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Satire is a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked. ... An example of how details would do this is when he first describes how children could make good dishes saying, "A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day." ... An example of how Swift uses this diction is when he says, "twenty thousand may be reserved for breed." ... By replacing the humanness of the terms "mothers and fathers" with t...

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However, both of these plays are excellent examples of Shakespearean comedies, and, as such, they both possess a number of similarities in terms of the normal aspects of comedies that are associated with Shakespeare. ... I actually think that As You Like It is definitely a more interesting play in terms of its treatment of gender and how Rosalind "teaches" Orlando how to woo her. ... As You Like It reflects many literary and philosophical themes of Shakespeare's time. ... This preoccupation led to a literary form called the "pastoral," which Renaissance English writers based on a class...

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It is probably best to see the situation not in terms of accuracy work or fluency work, but accuracy work and fluency work. ... As these languages usually are not spoken any more we can study them in different written texts and literary works they preserved in. ... Teachers should vary the materials used in the classroom, e.g. articles from newspapers on different topics, selected literary passages, texts from the Internet, advertisements, etc. ... Whereas grammar is taught deductively in Grammar-Translation Method (grammar rules are presented with examples) Direct Method uses an inductive way...

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He does not act upon it because it would mean that he needs to be exiled and come to terms with himself. ... Dramatic and verbal irony is overwhelming in this tragedy and those two literary devices gives the story passion and makes the atmosphere that much more emotional and deep. ... In Greek tragedies, the tragic truth is known by the audience, so irony must be apparent in every scene, as to heighten the downfall to get the audience to come to terms with their own personal feelings about the tragedy. Oedipus Rex is considered a classic example of a tragedy because the dynamic characters, int...

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Edith Eaton's autobiographical essay and her stories, of which "In the Land of the Free" is an example, show what it was to be a Chinese woman in the white man's world. ... Many authors and literary critics saw connections between literary content and social influence. For example, in "Criticism and Fiction" (1891), William Dean Howells, a advocate of nineteenth-century American realism, warns readers to avoid sentimental or sensational novels, which he claims "hurt" by presenting "idle lies about human nature and the social fabric." ... In an essay entitled "The Chinese in America,"...

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In relation to family and marriage life, Davis uses Bertrande de Rols, Martin Guerre's wife, as an example of a strong, virtuous woman with familial duty and an obstinate nature. ... Bertrande de Rols, according to Davis, is an example of the more broad-minded and less woman hating peasant society of the village of Artigat in 16th Century France. ... The tale of the widow P"eng was a typical example of the code of justice promoted by the Ch"ing dynasty. ... However, he was also a very learned, educated, and passionate man with an upstanding career in law and, after the case of Martin Guer...

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Through Eagleton's example, we are then introduced to society and its impact on literature. ... Mikhail Bakhtin is a critic who studies literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. Bakhtin "[views] language-especially literary texts-in terms of discourses and dialogues. ... Bakhtin's view of language can be summed up in two terms: addressitivity and answerability. Bakhtin discusses these terms as "a word is always addressed to someone and anticipates, can generate, a response, anticipates an answer. ...

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