Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning
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LITERARY CRITICISM LITERATURE • What is literature? Literate/ literacy - able to read/write Origin- from Latin “litteratura” (letter) • literature with the small ‘l’ Literature - piece of writing/printed information on a particular subject • literature with the big ‘L’ Literature - pieces of writing that are valued as works of art eg. Novels‚ plays‚ poems (contrast to technical books/ scientific/ academic writings) • Literary - connected with literature
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Literary Criticism What comes to your mind when you hear the word “criticism”? Nowadays‚ most people look at criticism as something negative and personally‚ it has a negative connotation to me. Multimedia (for example‚ television‚ radio‚ etc.) has often depicted criticism as an antagonist. On reality TV shows‚ say‚ a singing competition‚ there is usually a panel of judges who criticize the contestants ’ performances particularly focusing on its fine points and flaws (more on the latter) and the
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Africa Emergent by Nadine Gordimer A better understanding of literary theory can be gained by investigating the etymology of the word theory itself. Literary theory‚ then‚ offers to us a view of life‚ an understanding of why we interpret texts the way we do. A well-articulated literary theory also assumes that an innocent reading of a text or a sheerly emotional or spontaneous reaction to a work does not exist because literary theory questions the assumptions‚ beliefs‚ and feelings of readers
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Life Connections Recent Deaths in Police Brutality As of late more and more attention has been directed towards some unsavory police actions towards the black community. This is in direct relation to A Lesson before Dying. In A Lesson before Dying Jefferson‚ an uneducated black male is prosecuted for a crime he did not commit and thrown into jail for it. He receives a death sentence and loses all self-worth. In relation to current police brutality incidents some officers have been unjustly killing
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English Period who wrote on biblical and religious themes were Caedmon and Cynewulf. The Middle English Period consists of the literature produced in the four and a half centuries between the Norman Conquest of 1066 and about 1500‚ when the standard literary language‚ derived from the dialect of the London area‚ became recognizable as "modern English." Prior to the second half of the fourteenth century‚ vernacular literature consisted primarily of religious writings. The second half of the fourteenth
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I. Company Background The success of Frito Lay is a tribute to two entrepreneur’s dreams. In 1932‚ C.E. Doolin purchased a bag of corn chips in a café in San Antonio‚ Texas. He learned that the chips manufacturer was selling his business so he purchased the recipe and began selling Fritos Corn Chip. Meanwhile‚ that same year‚ Herman W. Lay began his potato chip business in Nashville by delivering snack foods. He then purchased the manufacturer‚ and the H.W. Lay & Company was formed. It soon became
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Can Merit Pay Accelerate School Improvement? James W. Noll’s 2008 book Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Educational Issues discussed a variety of current issues in American education. Our EDM 501 class used Mr. Noll’s book and its topics as subject starting points for our debates this semester. I found many of the subjects to be very interesting and controversial. It was one of the final issues in the book‚ Issue #21 Can Merit Pay Accelerate School Improvement that stuck with me and it
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The short story How I Met My Husband‚ by Alice Munro‚ is an excellent example of realistic writing. She uses ordinary and worldly events‚ actual locations‚ and a very ironic tone in the story. Alice Munro also uses everyday people for her protagonists‚ who encounter normal events and emotions. In the story How I Met My Husband‚ Edie shows the growth from someone who is very naïve to someone who is more realistic. In the beginning of this story‚ Edie is a very naïve fifteen-year-old girl. She does
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forever. People believe there is nothing in life that is worth dying for. On the contrary‚ I believe there are some situations and values that are worth dying for as they are really important. Conversely‚ I consider there are some matters that tempt people to die for‚ but are not worth it. For example‚ if someone put a gun next to my friend and father’s head and asked me to choose between them‚ what would I do? Would I choose? No. I would have willingly succumbed my life to rescue my loved people
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