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    Out of Body Experience

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    Macbeth: Techniques

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    Looking closely at language and dramatic techniques Tuesday‚ 12 June 2012 9:11 AM   Find two examples of each of the following. Explain the effect of the device. 1. Imagery of violence 2. Symbols-dagger‚ ghost 3. Images of masculinity 4. Supernatural imagery 5. Blood motif (Motifs are recurring structures‚ contrasts‚ and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.) 6. Soliloquies   1. " Thou liest‚ abhorred tyrant; with my sword

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    Writers often use literary techniques to relay the meaning of their works to their audience. In “The Whipping”‚ Robert Hayden uses structure‚ imagery‚ and sound devices to transmit the inhumanity of abuse‚ and how beatings lead to a cycle of abuse. Structure plays an important role in the meaning of this poem. The cruelness of abuse is amplified through enjambment and emphasis on the last word of the sentence. When the lady beats the boy ‚ no pronunciation is used‚ which allows the poem to flow

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    The Yellow Fever epidemic that raged through Philadelphia in 1793 changed life for Philadelphians who survived the outbreak of the disease. A historical fiction novel‚ Fever 1793‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ took place in this advanced‚ busy city when the Yellow Fever came to town. Matilda “Mattie” Cook‚ the main character of the novel‚ has to learn how to survive the fever and keep herself and the ones she loves alive while doing it. All through the novel‚ Matilda learns a lesson about how saying

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    Reader Response

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    Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work‚ in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work. Although literary theory has long paid some attention to the reader’s role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work‚ modern reader-response criticism began in the 1960s and ’70s‚ particularly in America and Germany‚ in

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    University of Phoenix Material Literature Compare and Contrast Table Select three literary works that you have read in class‚ and that you think are connected in at least one way through convention or device. Consider the following: theme‚ genre‚ literary technique‚ culture‚ use of literary devices such as symbolism‚ and how diction is used to suggest culture‚ class‚ ethnicity‚ historical period‚ or age. Use the three works you have selected

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    Simply stated‚ students should study Shakespeare’s works in school because of the incredible value within them. In addition to exposing students to a multitude of literary techniques‚ Shakespeare’s plays challenge the student with difficult language and style‚ express a profound knowledge of human behavior and offer insight into the world around us. William Shakespeare is recognized by much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. The intricate meanings‚ extensive vocabulary‚ and powerful

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    New Criticism

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    product of the artist nor as an evaluative reflection or illumination of cultural history. These "New Critics" opposed the traditional critical practice of using historical or biographical data to interpret literature. Rather‚ they focused on the literary work as an autotelic (self-contained) object. The New Critic explores and assesses the meaning of literature through an analysis of its internal form. From the 1940’s through the 1960’s formalist principles defined the mainstream standards of good

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    Fredrick Wilse Bateson (1901 - 1978)‚ an English literary scholar and critic‚ was born in Cheshire and educated at Chaterhouse and at Trinity College‚ Oxford. He is best remembered for his work of the post-war years. In 1951 he founded the critical journal Essays in Criticism and his other works include Words-Worth: A Reinterpretation and A Guide to English Literature. Bateson was skeptical of ‘scientific’ and historical approaches to literary criticism. According to Bateson‚ the first essential

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    Young Goodman Brown

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    throughout the literary piece. Themes in literary works can sometimes be better understood by analyzing the piece with a specific literary criticism technique. A few of these literary criticism techniques include Marxist‚ Formalism‚ and Reader Response just to name a few. Given Hawthorne’s style of writing and this short story in particular‚ a reader or critic can benefit from analyzing his work with the Reader Response literary criticism approach. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms

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