Lit. 103 World Literatures Preliminary Examination Reviewer ------------------------------------------------- Indian-Chinese-Japanese Indian Literature Aryan race- invaded India from North West * Brahmanism‚ Hinduism‚ and Jainism were their religions Gautama Buddha- made many changes in the old religion; his teachings later became the basis for one of the five major religions Sanskrit- oldest extant Aryan language‚ used in most Ancient Indian literature 2 Periods of Indian Literature
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Vasile Elena-Cristina Twentieth-Century English Literature 2nd Year Seminar tutor: Andreea Paris Group: II Languages: English-German Psychoanalytical perspective of T.S. Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Psychoanalytic criticism originated in the work of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud‚ who pioneered the technique of psychoanalysis. Freud developed a language that described‚ a model that explained
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Poets employ a variety of literary devices to represent marginalised groups in ways that challenge their readers’ perceptions. Poets employ a variety of literary devices throughout their poems. These literary devices can serve to represent marginalised groups in ways that challenge their reader’ original perceptions. Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Judith Wright are two poets who have applied this strategy. Although Noonuccal and Wright both share a passion for writing‚ they came from vastly different
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with life and death. Hamlet stresses the words “To be” in opposition “or not to be” in expression of living or dying. Through this example that the whole play is “structured to choose either one action over another” In addition‚ Shakespeare uses a synecdoche to reveal morality through Hamlet’s doubt. For instance in Act 1 Scene 2 after both Claudius and Gertrude leave court‚ Hamlet asks himself “O that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into dew! Or that the Everlasting had
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Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics Analysis and Interpretation of the Realist Text: A Pluralistic Approach to Ernest Hemingway’s "Cat in the Rain" Author(s): David Lodge Source: Poetics Today‚ Vol. 1‚ No. 4‚ Narratology II: The Fictional Text and the Reader (Summer‚ 1980)‚ pp. 5-22 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1771885 . Accessed: 14/03/2011 05:14 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚
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Name: ___________________________________________________________________ Hour: _________ Lord of the Flies By William Golding Critical Thinking/Interpretive Study Guide [pic] Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell 1. How do the boys end up on the island? They are in some kind of plane crash‚ though the details are not all clear. 2. Who is “the voice” referred to on page 7? What does the voice represent? Piggy is “the voice” and represents the
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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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Figures of Speech Used in Lesson 4 1. Alliteration 1) Man against man and creed against creed (P.14) 2) warmed to his work (P.20) 3) He brandished a biology text… (P.20) 4) with a man made by God in his image (P.21) 5) …and put here for His purpose as part of a divine plan. (P.21) 6) Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Dryan had swept the political arena like a prairie fire. (P.22) 7) quiet questioning (P.32) 2. Allusion * We are marching
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WHY IS GATSBY SO MEMORABLE TO THE READER? The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925 and was one of Fitzgerald’s most well-known novels. Many aspects of this book caused this mass popularity‚ however the main reasons are his use of romantic modernism and most importantly‚ his portrayal of the different character. The different portrayals of the characters across Long island manipulate the reader’s opinion. One of the most famous examples for this is Gatsby. Gatsby is a very memorable character
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Emily Benzing Mrs. Bogati July 16‚ 2013 Vocabulary 1. Alliteration- The repetition of a particular sound or letter at the beginning of a series of words or phrases. Ex: Bob bought big brown bagels. 2. Allusion- An indirect mention or reference to something else. Ex: Obama made an allusion to John F. Kennedy when he said “ask not just what our government can do for us‚ but what we can do for ourselves” 3. Anaphora- Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more
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