I stood there‚ gazing at all the trophies and framed news article with bold headings saying "The Champion James Wins Again!" All the trophies I won had no effect on me at all. I remember stepping in the World Championship Boxing Stadium. I remember walking towards the ring and thousands of fans screaming my name. I remember Alexander. I especially remember the last punch that hit me cold. I laid there motionless‚ on the floor. And at that moment‚ I knew that my boxing career was over. My wife‚ Tiffany
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1. Allusion – A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known‚ such as an event‚ book‚ myth‚ place‚ or work of art. Allusions can be historical‚ literary‚ religious‚ topical‚ or mythical. There are many more possibilities‚ and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion. (Ex: "seventy times seven"- Wuthering Heights) 2. Characterization- The author’s expression of a character’s personality through the use of action‚ dialogue‚ thought‚ or commentary by
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Unraveling Parallels In her modern classic‚ Sylvia Plath tells the story of a neurotic woman on the grip of insanity. The Bell Jar presents the atypical coming-of-age of the successful and magnetic Esther Greenwood. As her mental health declines‚ she longs to escape her cosmopolitan life through taking her own. Though Neurotic Poets recounts the biography of Sylvia Plath‚ The Bell Jar reveals a more personal struggle with clinical depression. Esther’s failure to recognize her self-importance reflects
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The Maturity of a Boy Passion‚ adolescence‚ foolishness‚ and maturity are the first words that come to one’s mind to describe James Joyce’s short story‚ "Araby." In it‚ he writes about a boy who falls deeply in love with his best friend’s sister‚ who through the story‚ doesn’t seem to notice him or care about him. The boy‚ who has yet to be named‚ lives in a poor and run-down town. During the story‚ certain characters contribute to the boy’s developing sense of maturity‚ and eventually‚ lead
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Allusion: To make a casual or an indirect reference to something. Example: “ A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall‚ the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead.” and basically the whole sonnet. Yeats‚ W. B. (n.d.). William Butler Yeats. Retrieved from http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/865/ (Originally work published 1928) Function: The entire sonnet is an allusion to the creation of the trojan war‚ which eventually led to the death of the king “Agamemnon”. To understand
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Thomas C. Foster’s‚ How to Read Literature Like a Professor‚ Foster talks about blindness not only as a burden‚ but as a gift. He tries to convey to the audience that blindness in stories goes beyond physical meaning. He also talks about how to catch important details early in a story or movie. The three main points Foster asserts in this chapter are sacrifice‚ commonly missed word usage‚ and if you want something known‚ make it known early. One of the main points Foster talks about is sacrifice
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counselor‚ Guido da Montefeltro. The false counselor decides to answer Dante’s question because the answer will be kept in Hell with Dante. This epigraph makes an allusion to what happens in the poem‚ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock‚ the speaker of this poem‚ wants to ask fundamental questions of people; yet‚ if
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Compare and contrast two of the four short stories listed below. Begin your discussion of each story by stating what you think its theme is‚ and then describe how the other five elements identified by your editors contribute to articulating the theme. Use as many of the other five elements as you think are relevant in contributing to the theme; some elements will be more important than others‚ and one or two may not be relevant‚ depending upon your choice of stories. For example‚ point of view may
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The United States Constitution and Biblical Worldview There is currently a major dispute on whether or not the United States Constitution correlates with a Biblical worldview. When the founders wrote the Constitution they wrote it based on what had thrived within many previous civilizations and people groups such as the Roman‚ the Greek‚ and the Hebrew which happens to be‚ the Bible. Research shows that‚ the U.S. Constitution was written by deriving ideas from several different philosophers‚ and
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“Biblical Hermeneutics” By: Rev. Clint A. Starnes September 7th‚ 2013 In its most basic definition‚ biblical hermeneutics refers to the art and science of biblical interpretation. It is considered an art because understanding‚ which is required for interpretation‚ requires a feel for the subject matter being interpreted‚ not just an analyzation of data. Biblical hermeneutics is also considered a science due to the fact that some aspects of the interpretation process
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