Significance of doors and windows in Wuthering Heights Introduction In literature we can come across many expressions where the word door or window is used either to picture the scene or situation; or where the doors and windows are used metaphorically. The door and window are generally considered to be not only something what keeps warm inside the house and does not let anyone unwanted in. Door Metaphorically the meaning of the door can reach much wider range. ‘Door’ has strong link the soul
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Group 1 (Cheng‚ Uy‚ Alipio) Short Story: Wedding Dance Poem: Bonsai Group 2 (Rosabal‚ Gocela‚ Gamalinda) Short Story: The White Horse of Alih Poem: Patalim Group 3 (Barlin and Castillejo) Short Story: Mayday Eve Poem: Bihirang Masulat ang Kaligayahan Group 4 (De Jesus‚ Dela Cruz‚ Sioco) Short Story : My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken Poem: Poem 10 Group 5 (Chen‚ Uy‚ Qiu) Short Story: Dead Stars Poem: Gabu Group 6 (Fule‚ Lim‚ Quinzon) Short Story: The Small Key Poem: You Can Choose Your
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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)‚ a prominent playwright‚ was born of an impoverish middle-class family in Dublin where he attended a college. In 1876 he started working as a journalist in London. He become a socialist in 1882 and in 1884 joined the Fabian Society‚ an organization of petty bourgeois intellectuals. In 1887 G. B. Shaw took up writing plays‚ in which he criticized the vices of bourgeois society. Bernard Shaw is famous for his brilliant dialogues‚ full of witty paradoxes and often bitterly
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Q1. Discuss Gray as a transitional poet with special reference to ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. The period 1730-1770 marks the beginning from a movement from one distinct phase of English poetry towards another .The poets were getting gradually exhausted with the neoclassical ethics of clarity‚ reason‚ sophistication‚ and etiquette‚ its economic wording‚ ‚rationale and wit. In the literary circle can be perceived the advent of The Romanticism which however customarily began with the publication
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Synecdoche is employed when Eisenbart is "summoned by arrogant hands" to show the girls power. She is symbolised by the power of her music‚ characterized as "titian-haired" to imply her passionate nature and her "eyes" that see through Eisenbarts’ superficial
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Literary Device Glossary Allusion: An implied or indirect reference to a person‚ event‚ or thing that has to do with another part of a text. Can be direct quotes or it can be indirect things that are implied. Most are from commonly known pieces of literature or history. Example: “but now he found that he committed himself to the following of a grail” The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald. Function: In this example‚ Fitzgerald alludes to the Holy Grail. What this does is show how
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Rhetorical Strategies and Stylistic Devices Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex. “GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE‚ COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN‚ AND WISDOM ALWAYS TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE.” (Slaughter House-Five‚60) Allusion- a brief and indirect reference to a person‚ place‚ thing or idea of historical‚ cultural‚ literary or political significance. Ex. “Canst thou draw
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Much Ado About Nothing—Romantic Comedy * Much Ado about Nothing * Love and War; Love as War—starts with soldiers coming back from war and wanting love; love becomes a battlefield * Young Lovers: Claudio and Hero * “Not(h)ing” Messina: Confusions of Appearance and Reality * Love and War; Love as War * 1.1: World waiting for the return of youth and love * Learn of soldiers even before they enter scene: * Youthful Claudio‚ ll.12-16 * Benedick (older man) introduced
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Notes on Short Story THE GIFT OF THE MAGI By O. Henry Date: 26 September 2012 Title: The Gift of the Magi Author: William Sydney Porter also known as O. Henry Background of the O. Henry: O. Henry was born on September 11‚ 1862‚ in Greensboro‚ North Carolina. Both his mother and father died before O. Henry turned 20. As a teenager‚ he worked as a pharmacist’s assistant in his uncle’s drugstore to help support his family. At age 19‚ he moved to Texas to take advantage of its warmth and dry
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Greg Bennett 3/18/13 Required close Analytic Reading Authors Stylistic Choices: Enhancing Analysis Using Rhetorical Grammar The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien 1. What is the narrator’s tone in the opening sentence? Describe how the use of the word butterfly affects the reader’s understanding of the description that follows. The narrator’s tone in the opening sentence is of peace and or prosperity. The narrator tricks the reader by using the noun butterfly to show beauty‚ calmness
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