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. ... Another key literary component is the author's style or the way in which the piece is conveyed or portrayed to the audience. ... Ultimately Mingus Remixed has many literary elements of fiction such as characterization, point of view, plot, style, tone, and storytelling within its unorthodox structure; that it is narrated like a novel while al...

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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. ... Meter is the organization of speech rhythms (verbal stresses) into regular patterns, in terms of both the arrangement of stresses and their frequency of repetition per line of verse...

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These characteristics that make you stop re-read or re-think about what has just happened is what makes "The Cask of Amontillado" a very strong literary piece. One of the key literary characteristics is Poe's use of language. ... As if the sophisticated phrases weren't enough Poe went and used some Latin terms in the story. ... The picture that Poe paints in the reader's mind about each scene really proves the story is a true literary piece. ... These sometimes in depth and hard to follow characteristics are what would drive a mainly commercial literary reader away from "The C...

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It is clear that "A Municipal Report" lacks literary significance. Although "A Municipal Report" and "A Jury of Her Peers" share a basic common plot structure, they are entirely different in terms of literary significance. ... It is apparent, after reading both stories, that "A Jury of Her Peers" has greater literary significance. ...

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In this essay I will be explaining how the three standard forms of literary discourse, which we have studied in our class apply to the narration of The Death of Ivan Ilych, and allow for the transitioning between the dialogues of characters. ... Indirect discourse is a report of discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately, such as; "He said 'I am not going' would be modified to 'He said he is not going.'... In conclusion, this essay has shown the three different forms of literary discourse and how they are used in the narration of The Death of Ivan Il...

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Instead of a recognizable genre, lesbian literary narrative, is in reality, a disputed form, dependent on various interpretive strategies." ... Cather's clever insertion of her initial as the snake "was lying in long loose waves, like a letter 'W'" forms a literary technique she perhaps used to inform her readers on her lesbian position. ... Farwell notes how "Feminist literary theory has been eager to recognize the possibility of disruptive plots and spaces that position women as subjects of their own stories." ... Antonia therefore, is given a higher positi...

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Narrative peculiarities in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway- This essay (that I would rather consider as an analysis) will deal with the narration, narrator and narrative techniques of V. Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway-. V. Woolf - the voice of women in modernist narration. Virginia Woolf probably is one of the most famous women writers - mostly because of her ability to reflect the inner world of a woman. ...

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Howard Brody has written a terrific book called Stories of Sickness. I am going to talk to you about some ideas in this book which I have found helpful in thinking about experiences of sickness--my own and others-- and in thinking about experiences of 'story',--as storytelling, as fiction and fact t...

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Starting with an analysis of character one must first give it a literary definition. According to The Norton Introduction to Literature character is a fictional person, or "a combination of a person's qualities, especially moral qualities, so that terms such as "good' and "bad,' "strong' and "weak,' often apply" (139). ...

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In James Joyce's short story Araby he is successful in creating an intense narrative. He does this in such a way that he enables the reader to feel what is it actually like to live in Dublin at the turn of the century when the Catholic Church had an enormous amount of authority over Dubliner's. The...

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The similarities between his work and the previously dominant medium for understanding the past can be assured through linguistic features, such as the use of rhetorical questions, quasi-Homeric discourse, similarities in phraseology [aklea vs. klea andron (¶1.1) or the use of grand terms such as 'the cities of mortals'], and the presence of tangential stories that the author considers worth telling, though they are not directly relevant to the plot. ...

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