The Writing Techniques of Voltaire In Candide, Voltaire uses many writing techniques that can also be found in the works of Cervantes, Alighieri, Rabelais and Moliere. The use of the various styles and conventions shows that, despite the passage of centuries and the language differences, certain writing techniques will always be effective. One common literary technique is the author's use of one or more of his characters as a "voice- to speak out his views on a certain subject. ... Another technique Voltaire uses in Candide is that of taking actual people and events and weaving...

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Grapes of Wrath Not only was Grapes of Wrath a terrific literary piece but it was an artistic masterpiece. ... Steinbeck also used many different literary techniques to portray the whole feeling. The most evident technique he used was his used of plot and intercessory chapters. I only read the first few plot chapters, but by reading those along with the intercessory chapters preceding those I clearly saw how Steinbeck used this technique to paint a clearer picture. ... Steinbeck's techniques and great writing style are what made this story of such a traumatic time so terrific. ...

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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. ...

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Websters dictionary defines an essay as "a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject. ... What I am hoping to learn from this class is useful techniques to help me lesson my stress of wrting. ...

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Explain how the writer employs the technique and why, in your opinion, it is so important to your appreciation of the text .In your answer, you must refer closely to the text and to it's theme as well as to the written use of the chosen technique. ... The technique called symbolism is when something stands for something of a wider significance. ... Although symbolism is a vital technique throughout the play there are other literary devices used by the author such as the dialect. ... This technique is also useful in the appreciation of the text however not as vital as symbolism. The tec...

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Jonathon Swift "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to their Parents or Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Public," or, now simply known as "A Modest Proposal". Published by, Jonathon Swift has become one of the most controversia...

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Of course, any writer who breaks the mold and develops a new and unique writing style, will be the target of positive and negative criticism, and if that writer uses his writing technique to cover scandalous topics like sex and homosexuality, he will undoubtedly be the center of much controversy. When "Leaves of Grass," was first published, it was a commercial failure, but literary critics could not discount Whitman's bold approach to writing. ... Many people, including this writer, cannot get past Whitman's sexual tendancies, and consider his literary works on their merits as innova...

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He discusses Wyatt's attempt at introducing a new technique of poetry, terza rima in the English language. ... Greenbelt's model of Renaissance Self-Fashioning could be used in a Literary Research and Analysis class because his model of identity formation has implications for contemporary culture. ...

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" Rejecting these concepts was among many of the cultural forces that drove literary modernism. ... Modernism, as a literary style is built upon the ideas and concepts found in both literary naturalism and realism; All together the beliefs in these theories reject the basis and ideals of romanticism. ... Gustave Flaubert as a modernist literary legend was a master at the precision of detail in his novel and this emphasized the modern perspective in his work. Flaubert's technique of cinematographic description was amplified through the form in his novels in alternating the point...

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Henry James work was remarkable and outstanding in his lifetime he put out 112 tales, 20 novels, 2 columns of auto biography and part of a third, travel essays and books, 3,000 pages of literary criticism, and 16 plays. ... He was encouraged by a dean and other members of the Cambridge literary circle to join the Atlantic Monthly and write critical articles and reviews. ... James changed the technique of narrating a novel from the point of view of a character. ...

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An essay that clearly states an argument, produces evidence supporting that argument, and concludes that argument with plausible solutions produces not only an essay, but a literary piece with meaning and purpose. Throughout this entire essay, author Brent Staples uses not only his words, but also somewhat subliminal structure techniques, such as his use of irony, as pillars of the overall value and success of the entire article. By utilizing these techniques, and maintaining a lucid and easy-to-follow pattern of writing, Staples forms an essay that has the power to evoke feeling, and is mor...

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"Her compact, forceful language, characteried formally by long disruptive dashes, heavy iambic meters, and angular, imprecise rhymes, is one fo the singular literary achievements of of the nineteenth century. ... "Her subjects are often parts of the topography of her own psyche; she explores her own feelings with painstaking and often painful honesty but never loses sight of their universal poetic application; one of her greatest techniques is to write about the particulars of her own emotions in a kind of universal homiletic or adage-like tone ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes") that...

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Angelou's writing style is descriptive and colorful; she uses many literary devices to emphasize scenes and conversations that show the development of her character. ... She wrote with more symbolization, color, and literary techniques, such as similes. ...

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As In the next part, I would take some effort to look into one of the stylistic features of the post modern text---the ending of the language hierarchy6, which I have an idea to compare it with the feature I just mentioned above, so as to examine if the technique adopted by Kingston here belongs to the stylistic features of postmodern texts. ...

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It is an honored literary work as being far ahead of its time. ... Through her descriptive writing techniques, the reader can understand the book clearly and ultimately being on Edna Pontellier's side. ...

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I was invited to one of the journalism classes he teaches at the University of Alabama and through these two connections I came to understand his use of linguistic and stylistic techniques in everything he writes. ...

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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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