A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. A common length is about 50 to 100 pages‚ or around 20‚000 to 40‚000 words. The extra length is generally used for more character development than is possible in a short story‚ but without the much greater character and plot development of a novel. ------------------------------------------------- Novella From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the literary form. For
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is a work of art. Admittedly it is hard to read about so many deaths in the same way over and over again‚ and see the same pain‚ the same agony and despair‚ without the distraction of pretty words‚ in a plain novel. Putting this intense story in prose doesn’t nearly do it the justice it deserves. Although this tale is interesting enough‚ being put into epic form seems to put everything in its place. Reading The Iliad as an epic poem brings life to the dull moments‚ brings life to the empty pages
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Ernest Hemingway (July 21‚ 1899 – July 2‚ 1961) Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21‚ 1899 in Oak Park‚ Illinois to Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway and Grace Hall Hemingway. The second of six children‚ Ernest enjoyed an adventurous boyhood‚ fishing and hunting with his father in the northern woods of Michigan. After graduating high school‚ Ernest traveled to Kansas City and worked as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star. In 1918‚ he began service as an ambulance driver for the Italian army
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Now after closing in on a decade of activity on the review platform‚ I’m what you call a veteran. I am launching this paper boat onto the tide‚ I thought I would offer advice to whom feel they could make a mark on this review platform. My dear X‚ you don’t mind me calling you a single character do you... if you’re offended view the ’x’ as two lips touching‚ engaging in mutual adoration... err‚ perhaps not‚ we’ve not met and quite honestly I’m not the most interactively tactile of members thus find
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Cathedral especially in terms of the traditional image of the turning wheel and the still point. Key words: T.S. Eliot‚ Murder in the Cathedral‚ Church‚ the Turning Wheel‚ the Still Point. INTRODUCTION In the Coriolan poems the manipulation of a continuous parallel by Eliot between antiquity and contemporaneity leads initially to a concern with the substitute the world seeks for the Word‚ and finally to a resignation leading to the discovery that our peace is in His will. This theme of timeless reality
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Anthology of the 1930s‚ p.179‚ Doubleday‚ 1974.]. Asimov’s warning puts an eloquent exclamation point to the point concerning adjective misuse. Both novices and experienced writers face this quandary‚ and simply put‚ meaningless adjectives deaden the prose. The following example helps answer the question of why unnecessary adjectives stifle text. One error highlighting writer’s
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Prose refers to that system as “...a process intended to produce a product‚” the product being the children. Products‚ not kids who need most of all to be taught how to act as decent people‚ but commodities moving down an assembly line of classrooms. If Prose thinks we should focus on diction then we should really focus on how she refers to kids as “it” when she says‚ “What sort
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Arabic literature Main article: Arabic literature Main article: Literature of Morocco Ibn Tufail (Abubacer) and Ibn al-Nafis were pioneers of the philosophical novel. Ibn Tufail wrote the first fictional Arabic novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (Philosophus Autodidactus) as a response to al-Ghazali ’s The Incoherence of the Philosophers‚ and then Ibn al-Nafis also wrote a novel Theologus Autodidactus as a response to Ibn Tufail ’s Philosophus Autodidactus. Both of these narratives had protagonists(Hayy in Philosophus
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poem‚ I Dwell in Possibility the Author Emily Dickinson starts off about this big and beautiful house. The Author says the house is a fairer house than prose‚ she’s actually talking about poetry and how fairer it is than this ‘prose’. The speaker doesn’t use the word poetry specifically‚ but she does say that wherever she lives is better than "Prose." The author says she dwells in Possibility. Meaning she lives in a world full of poetry. Emily is using the word possibility as another word for poetry
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Character is the revealing of the virtues and moral purposes‚ showing man’s limitations and strengths. The medium of imitation: Diction is the expression of the meaning or thought by communicating in words‚ it’s essence is equal in either verse or prose. Song is the expression used for all embellishments and enhancement of the meaning or message. Manner of imitation: Spectacle‚ which is the least connected to but holds a strong emotional attraction of it’s own. The task of constructing and moulding
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