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. ... Poetry is organized by the division of each line of verse into "feet," metric units which each consist of a particular arrangement of strong and weak stresses. ... A line with five feet is called pentameter; thus, a line of five iambs is known as "iambic pentameter" (the most common met...

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While ecocriticism of Thoreau and Emerson has thus tended to dichotomize ecology and imagination in terms of the empirical versus the metaphorical, and in the service of sharply distinguishing Thoreau's ecocentrism from Emerson's anthropocentrism, it has neglected a rhetorical middle ground, the empirical figure of expression known as metonymy that plays a significant role in the natural history projects of both writers. ... On my reading, Emerson has his own more empirical, late natural history projects, work also left largely unfinished and generally neglected by critics because it...

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Lawrence in this essay is to deconstruct the metaphorical hierarchies that he establishes to define the novel and that should be done strictly in terms of the specific context of the specific places in which they appear. ... Immediately upon making this metaphor, however, he adds a supplementary metaphor that would seem to contradict it, pointing out the irreconcilability of his original metaphorical terms. ... Austin's terms, self-consciously performative (those that are not subject to classifications of "true" or "false" because they act out entirely personal propositions) rather than c...

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"Consciousness" by Joanie Mackowski is a free verse poem that appeared in the February 2012 edition of Poetry Magazine. ... This allows her to convey complex ideas about consciousness and the mind in simple layman terms that are easily comprehensible for the reader and thus make her poem easy to follow. ...

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