prove (thesis: problem or question student wants to investigate and answer to the question or solution to the problem). The authors explore (subtopics) __________________‚ _____________________‚ and _____________________. The authors refer to (literary devices) ______________________ and _____________________. MAIN BODY Subtopic A _____________________________________________________________ (Cite examples‚ quotes‚ and references; also‚ you can add explanation and analysis) Text 1 1.
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century is often regarded as father of modern english criticism . Arnold’s work as literary critic started with "Preface to poems " in 1853 .It is a kind of manifesto of his critical creed . It reflects classicism as well his views on grand poetic style . Arnold was classicist who loved art ‚ literature and Hellenic culture . His most famous piece of literary criticism is in his essay " The study of poetry ". In this workhe talks about poetry’s
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inatimate objects are given human characteristics‚ abilities‚ or reactions. satire- Witty language used to convey insults or scorn. symbol- An object or action that means or stands for something else more significant than its literal meaning. Literary Terms from A Step From Heaven "My toes are fish" - metaphor "The waves dance" - personification "I am a sea bubble floating‚ floating in a dream" - metaphor‚ symbol "sleepy blanket face" - imagery‚ metaphor "like the insides of the bottles that
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Fraser Island Passage Analysis The author’s hatred for the wilderness on the island is expressed through literary devices throughout the passage. Having been rained on and in damp and smelly jeans‚ the author and his friend‚ Craig‚ journey into the interior of Fraser Island‚ where he describes it as being a “wasteland” and the “badlands.”The author uses descriptive similes and metaphors‚ cacophonous vocabulary‚ vivid imagery‚ and Craig’s contrasting positive outlook of just how terrible the visit
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Bibliography: Bloom‚ Harold. Major Literary Characters: Willy Loman. New York: Chelsea House‚ 1991. Detroit: James Brown Associates. 1970. New York: Salem Press. Inc‚ 1991. Detroit: Gak Research‚ 1987.
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- Well written-Good points A Critical Analysis of "Revelation" by Flannery O’Connor Flannery O’Connor’s background influenced her to write the short story "Revelation." One important influence on the story is her Southern upbringing. During her lifetime‚ Southerners were very prejudiced towards people of other races and lifestyles. They believed that people who were less fortunate were inferior to them; therefore‚ people were labeled as different things and placed into different social classes
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Tradition in “The Lottery”: A Discovery Via the Tools of Irony and Symbolism Within the Framework of Formalism The approach to literary criticism known as Formalism focuses on the literary text itself as the source for meaning‚ and deems the text as the only context a critic should turn to for research. It is a style of criticism that places emphasis on the literary tools and techniques in a text‚ apart from a text’s or authors historical context. The key to Formalism is structural and textual
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into the life‚ writings‚ and style of Maya Angelou’s poems. “She is a passionately sincere poet‚ whose purpose is to inspire her audience to keep going.” The book begins with an autobiography of Maya Angelou then it goes into an original detailed literary critique of some of her most famous poems that Bloom tries to put into a different perspective. Lastly‚ Bloom’s book discusses Angelou’s displacement‚ style‚ works by Maya Angelou‚ and works about Maya Angelou. Busch‚ Justin E. A. “Maya Angelou
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Stylistics is the study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective. As a discipline it links literary criticism and linguistics‚ but has no autonomous domain of its own.[1][2] The preferred object of stylistic studies is literature‚ but not exclusively "high literature" but also other forms of written texts such as text from the domains of advertising‚ pop culture‚ politics or religion.[3] Stylistics also attempts to establish principles capable of explaining the particular choices
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Anglo-American writers to focus critical attention on literature itself. Like Russian Formalism‚ following Boris Eikhenbaum and Victor Shklovskii‚ the New Critics developed speculative positions and techniques of reading that provide a vital complement to the literary and artistic emergence of modernism. Like many other movements in modern criticism‚ New Criticism was in part a reaction against the genteel cultivation of taste and sentiment that marked late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century criticism and
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