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    Plot Analysis (The Nightingale and the Rose) In The Nightingale and the Red Rose‚ there are several matters to be taken into account. Firstly‚ a plot technique that is used to make the story more interesting is foreshadowing. As the story proceeds‚ the author gives a clue about how hard and high-priced it is to have a red rose; the Nightingale has to fly around the garden and is failed time after time by answers of rose trees. Yet‚ she still keeps on finding a way to get a red rose. It turns

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    1. Types of Drama a. Comedy  When we talk about comedy‚ we usually refer to plays that are light in tone‚ and that typically have happy endings. The intent of a comedic play is to make the audience laugh. In modern theater‚ there are many different styles of comedy‚ ranging from realistic stories‚ where the humor is derived from real-life situations‚ to outrageous slapstick humor.  Is designed to be entertaining and humorous where misfortune ends in triumph or happiness. It presents characters

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    Gothic Literature Ann Radcliffe Name: Arunima Sircar Grade: 9 IGCSE A English Project- 1 Gothic Literature Gothic literature of gothic fiction is a genre of writing that merges elements of horror as well as romance. It has been believed to be first introduced by the famous English author‚ Horace Walpole. The many elements of Gothic Literature help make this genre successful and pleasing to the readers. Elements of Gothic Literature The many elements of a Gothic Novel help make the novel much more

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    Plot analysis of “A Rose For Emily” William Faulkner’s‚ “A Rose for Emily” is a story with a southern gothic style. The tragic story is told to readers through an anonymous narrator that speaks on behalf of the town’s people‚ but is not close to Emily‚ the protagonist‚ personally. This narration helps sustain a level of curiosity about Emily since readers cannot gain personal insight into her life and psyche. It is commonly expressed that the two things of certainty in life are death and taxes

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    The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered‚ stable and inherently meaningful worldview of the nineteenth century could not‚ wrote T.S. Eliot‚ accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism‚ they presented a profoundly pessimistic

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    PLOT SUMMARY – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Danny Boyle Jamal Malik‚ an 18-year old Mumbai slum kid‚ get right through to the last question on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ and the chance to win 20 million rupees. But straight after the show breaks for the night‚ he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. The show’s quizmaster Prem Kumar‚ himself a product of the slums‚ is unwilling to share the limelight with the young upstart. A night of mistreatment and torture fails to elicit a confession‚ so

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    Part-1 1. Plot: This is an entire event described in a story which is based on the sequence and order neatly arrange together. A plot could be cause and effect too‚ as it also refers to what has been done and what are its effects. Some stories have very simple plots‚ while some others have highly complex plots. 2. Character: This is the second important element of a fiction. A character takes part in the events of the plot and plays an active role in it. This could be a human being‚ an animal

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    in a fairly affluent family that owned a number of household slaves. The death of Clemens’s father in 1847‚ however‚ left the family in hardship. Clemens left school‚ worked for a printer‚ and‚ in 1851‚ having finished his apprenticeship‚ began to set type for his brother Orion’s newspaper‚ the Hannibal Journal. But Hannibal proved too small to hold Clemens‚ who soon became a sort of itinerant printer and found work in a number of American cities‚ including New York and Philadelphia. While still in his

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    well-mannered child‚ however‚ after meeting Joseph‚ he realizes that Joseph is the embodiment of everything he hates in a person. Deciding that he had enough with Joseph’s condescending attitude‚ he teams up with his older brother‚ Cletus‚ to hatch a plot against Joseph. Cletus: Cletus is the older brother of Bucephalus. He’s a very mischievous‚ strong‚ but not so clever child.So‚ he is easily convinced by his younger brother to team up and steal Joseph’s straw hat to teach him lesson. 3. Describe

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    CLIT 7013 PostModernism 2012-2013 Short Written Response Topic Examine the ways in which Paul Auster’s City of Glass challenge the convention of detective genre and open up discussion of postmodern concerns. The focus of the illustration of my argument is based on ‘the authority of detective-writer’ Title Who is the detective? Name of Student: Ho Pui Chi‚ Gladys UID: 2009874088 Email: gho@spss.edu.hk Instructor: Dr. Winnie Yee Date of Submission:

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