Both authors of "A Christmas Memory" and "Pancakes" utilize similar literary techniques, but the authors convey different themes by doing so. ... " The symbol of kites could represent friendship, innocence, companionship, and kindness, as these are the central themes of the story. ... These literary elements contribute greatly to the outcome of the story as the literary elements contribute greatly to the use of mood. The usage of literary elements that were used to convey different moods can give a writer on how to write a story utilizing similar literary elements to w...

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One of the more controversial approaches to literary analysis is the formalist approach. The formalist approach to literary analysis emphasizes the objective and literal interpretation of the tone, theme, and style of a literary text. ... Themes deal with a writers" view that usually reveals some insight on human behavior. Formalists expect to identify and analyze the theme with precision and clarity. A theme that is difficult to identify will result in criticism from the formalist perspective due an ineffective attempt to provide a precise identifiable theme. ...

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In "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini, a powerful and devastating novel about love, friendship, and betrayal, the author illustrates a heartbreaking story that not only portrays the struggles of complex characters, but also develop intricate themes. Through authorial decisions shown through literary devices such as flashbacks, imagery, and symbolism, Hosseini conveys that hope, which acts as a key to redemption, abolishes perpetual guilt. Through the author's use of literary devices such as flashbacks and imagery, Hosseini illustrates that guilt triggered by past betrayal is perpetual ...

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OBJECTIVES This study is aimed at achieving the following objectives: 1) In this study, the language and narrative technique in both text will be examined; 2) To examine the psychological effects of identity crisis on an individual as depicted in the literary works and 3) To examine the setting in the literary works that encourages identity crisis. ... Post-colonialism is described as an intellectual direction (sometimes also called an "era" or the "post-colonial theory") that exists since around the middle of the 20th century, although it became a major force in literar...

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A piece of literature will be acknowledged with acceptation into a literary canon. ... This is not meant to devalue what effect taste has to do with literature and understanding literary movements. ... Quality from my perspective has to to with how the literary piece catches my attention. ... If not that, they contain a moral lesson that guides the reader into understanding what things one should avoid to prevent the themes of dystopian fiction to become the salty favoring to the autobiography of our own lives....

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First of all, the most prominent theme I noticed from the Qur'an is the general moral lessons that form the core of Muslim religious belief. ... 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. ... Therefore, due to all these themes, styles, and moral lessons, the Qur'an has blossomed and proved an astonishing piece of work that infl...

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Sachar accentuates many themes and key issues within his story, ones which young and old can relate. ... To Place the book in the context of literary tradition, it would be first useful to define what is meant by literary tradition. ... Friendship and loyalty are two themes of the book which are recurrent within the plot. ... Loyalty is another theme which Sachar highlights within his writing, this theme is exemplified in Stanley and Zero's friendship. ... Finally, two other themes which are central to the story it's ending are luck and fate. ...

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Sachar accentuates many themes and key issues within his story, ones which young and old can relate. ... To Place the book in the context of literary tradition, it would be first useful to define what is meant by literary tradition. ... Friendship and loyalty are two themes of the book which are recurrent within the plot. ... Loyalty is another theme which Sachar highlights within his writing, this theme is exemplified in Stanley and Zero's friendship. ... Finally, two other themes which are central to the story it's ending are luck and fate. ...

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Bringing together the works of Said, Loti, and many other important literary sources, I will look critically at the historical interaction between the West and ˜The Rest' and analyze key subtopics including but not limited to; geopolitical issues, bi-orientalism, how the views of the Orient have changed throughout time, multifaceted issues within The Orient, and why the West is so interested in The Orient. ... Educationally, the domination has been so complete for such an amount of time that Said goes as far as to say that even supposed outwardly objective Western texts and liter...

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Both authors use narrative perspective, setting, and situational irony to illustrate the theme of isolation in the literature. ... The use of setting in both works is used to further demonstrate the theme of isolation. ... In both literary works, the authors use setting to demonstrate the social separations and alienation of the characters from their communities. Situational irony is another literary device used to convey the theme of isolation in both of the literary works. ... William Faulkner and Edwin Arlington Robinson use a first person pleural narrator, setting, and situational iro...

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The literary element of plot works effectively for Lee to express her ideas about how courage overcomes immense fears when there is something meaningful and important on the line. In Thunder on Sycamore Street, Rose uses the literary element of theme is used to portray his ideas about how no matter how much fear you have you need to over come it and be courageous and do what is important. ... In his story Thunder on Sycamore Street, Rose also expresses ideas about fear and courage through the literary element of characterization throughout his story. ... Both Rose and Lee use literary eleme...

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Each author tells a different story, but the authors agree on a common theme: "that too much emphasis is placed on the roles of the sexes in today's society." ... In each essay, the authors separate their styles using varying literary inclinations such as structure, tone and perspective. ... The use of these literary techniques helps to give a solid foundation to the theme. By using different tones and perspectives, the theme of gender roles in today's society takes a new shape and argument in each piece. ... Although these articles vary in the literary form with which they are t...

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These theories, along with the literary theorists behind them, are imperative to understand and recognize for their role as the foundation of this modern literary study. ... In other words, when critics assess the text, they are not actually looking at the literary work. ... A psychoanalytic critic by the name of Norman Holland can accredited for the development of the Psychological Reader-Response Theory, which focuses on how reading affects readers' psychologically and how it forms their identity theme. ... Holland terms this, a reader's "identity theme, " which gets projected on...

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Ernest Hemingway uses a literary style called the "Iceberg Theory" to convey only the information that he feels is pertinent, and leaves the rest to the reader to determine. ... Both Kafka and Hemingway exhibit, through their styles of writing, ambiguous meanings, implied motifs, and similar hidden themes. ... This is particularly the case in Hemingway's short story because of his creation of the literary style called, "The Iceberg Theory". ... The conscious literary choice to use the iceberg principle in "Hills Like White Elephants," and the unintended tran...

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"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. ...

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Paul Dunbar's main theme through out the poem is the agony of captivity. ... Paul Laurence Dunbar also uses diction to link back to his theme. He uses a particular structure to link it to the theme of his poem. ... Paul Laurence Dunbar uses many literary devices to express to the reader how he felt as an African American. ... The literary devices all help to show the apparent theme of the agony of captivity since the bird harmed itself trying to gain freedom. ...

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Hemingway and follow this up with the outweighing positive literary criticism over negative ones. ... (Gurko) Ernest Hemingway is a very controversial writer due to the themes of violence, despair and emotional unrest found in his stories. ... To conclude and comment on my research paper on Ernest Hemmingway I would like to explain my thoughts and reasoning for my explicit use of direct literary criticisms. ...

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Soon after her birth, her family moved several times to various Quaker communities in the rural south, which would eventually show through in her somewhat Southern literary style. ... Tyler's love and deep interest in her family is often reflected in the themes of her works. ... In Saint Maybe Tyler explores the theme of guilt within a discontented middle-class family with a surprisingly optimistic undercurrent suggesting that no matter what happens, life goes on. In Tyler's second novel, The Tin Can Tree, the feeling of stagnation of life and a person's sense of identity cre...

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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. ... But the term is perhaps most commonly used to describe figurative language, which is as a theme in literature. ... Allusion is a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. ... A drama may contain a single setting, or the setting may change from scene to scene Although theme is sometimes used in the same sense as motif to signify recurring concepts in literature, the...

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Whitman did everything he could to enrich his mind with the literary arts while he was still developing mentally. ... With these resources he forged a rough and unstructured, yet advanced curriculum that consisted of everything from the literary arts (poetry, theatre, and writing) to history to geography. ... In 1855, twelve of his works were published in a collection entitled "Leaves of Grass", which stands today as one of America's most popular literary works. ... This famous, and lengthy, poem has several sections which all house different themes. ... An appreciation for the opera c...

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During the nineteenth century there was a literary transformation going on in America that changed many writers" approach and mind-set to writing. ... A theme that is used in nearly every literary piece is nature, which Romantic poets utilize to convey their overall message to their readers. ...

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The professor has memorized literary works in the hopes that one day he will be called upon to recite them so that they may be re-written. ... While Beatty's character vehemently detests books and those who read them, paradoxically, he is well educated and often includes literary references in each of his conversations with Montag. ... Bowels add dimension with their respective story lines, the exclusion of any of these characters would not detract from the story's overall theme. ...

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Outside of the novel's boundaries, Woolf addresses the reoccurring theme of uncertainty by writing a novel that defies being categorized as a product of a specific genre or literary period. ... A central theme throughout "To the Lighthouse" is the sensitive relationship between an artist and his or her artwork. Throughout "The Window," one can see the modernist themes emerge through Lily's inability to conform to the manner in which Mrs. ... Theoretically, this change in pace is reflective of the transition from a modernist to a postmodernist literary style. ... The writing...

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In "A Modest Proposal," Jonathan Swift presents a literary work that attacks the vices of the English Protestants, Irish politicians, and even the naivety of the Irish themselves. ... Concerning Jonathan Swift's, A Modest Proposal, he unconventionally expresses his passionate view upon Ireland's society as a whole by the use of satire, verbal irony, and elaborate descriptions.The stereotypes against the Irish Catholic, and the prejudice theme against the lower classes further appraise his points in his not so modest essay. ...

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American realism was a late nineteenth-century literary movement that began as a reaction against romanticism and the sentimental tradition associated primarily with women writers. ... American realism was most commonly a feature of narrative fiction such as in the works of Stephen Crane, although authors occasionally applied its themes and literary techniques to poetry and drama as Stephen Foster did. ... Viewed as a reaction to romanticism, literary realism is written from an objective perspective that simply and clearly represents the subject matter and characters of the story. ... Crane ...

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