whole of the poem‚ in a specific situation at a critical moment. 2. This person addresses and interacts with one or more people; but we know of the auditors’ presence‚ and what they say or do‚ only from clues in the discourse of the single speaker. 3. The main principle controlling the poet’s choice and formulation of what the lyric speaker says is to reveal to the reader‚ in a way that enhances its interest‚ the speaker’s temperament and chararcter Robert Browning is considered to be the perfecter
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What is a thesis? Your thesis is not your dissertation. Neither is it a one liner about what you are doing. Your thesis is "a position or proposition that a person (as a candidate for scholastic honors) advances and offers to maintain by argument." [Webster’s 7th New Collegiate Dictionary]. "I looked at how people play chess" is not a thesis; " people adapt memories of old games to play new games" is. Similarly‚ "I wrote a program to play chess" is not a thesis; "playing chess requires a database
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poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”‚ Wilfred Owen uses a variety of literary devices to tell a sickening sight which he encountered in World War 1. He discusses a side of war no one wants to talk about and challenges the reader’s thinking. Owen uses the literary devices of tone‚ figurative language‚ and imagery to showcase the actuality of what soldiers faced and encountered while both on and off the battlefield. The first literary device used throughout
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Dr. Amy Robinson Survey of British Literature‚ 1780-1900 November 7‚ 2011 Deadly Love Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning is surprising. The poem speaks through the mind of a man who kills his lover‚ Porphyria by strangling her with her own hair. Although my initial reaction to this poem was that the killer was insane and evil‚ a second reading revealed another meaning. Porphyria’s lover killed her‚ not out of malice but out of love for her. Throughout the poem‚ there are references to
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be one of Truman Capote’s best selling books as well‚ In Cold Blood. What makes In Cold Blood significant from the rest is that‚ unlike the others‚ this book is able to transport the reader to a dimension of pure concentrated realism‚ wonderment‚ and imagination. This is not to say that the rest of the books within the selection are unable to achieve a similar goal‚ but rather to stress the point that the rhetorical devices used within In Cold Blood aid in the creation of the aforementioned
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The Demon Lover Page 1039 Questions 1. Throughout the story there are several characteristics of a ghost story‚ mainly the idea of a supernatural being placing the letter on her table. Because no one is supposed to know that she is back in London‚ it is strange for the letter to be even addressed to her in such a perfect timing as well as being placed on her table. In addition‚ it is even stranger to have her ex-lover write such a provocative letter to her‚ after 25 years have already passed
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The Demon Lover and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen was first published in Britain in 1945. In 1946‚ the collection was published in the United States under the title Ivy Gripped the Steps and Other Stories. Without exception‚ reviewers greeted it enthusiastically‚ praising it for what was described in the New Yorker as ‘‘a completely successful explanation of what war did to the mind and spirit of the English people.’’ Today‚ ’’The Demon Lover’’ is probably the most anthologized of Bowen’s short
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This book is based on the main principles and concepts of Decoding Stylistics. The term decoding stylistics (suggested by M.Riffaterre) stands for a trend in stylistics‚ a theory evolved by professor Irina Vladimirovna Arnold and developed by her numerous disciples (including the authors of the present book). As developed in this country Decoding Stylistics unites and applies the concepts and achievements of linguistics‚ literary criticism‚ text theory‚ poetics‚ hermeneutics to text analysis and
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important role in the Revolution. These three documents used similar writing methods to persuade colonists into one common goal; rallying against Great Britain. All three of these documents were persuasive speeches‚ written to unify the colonists. None of the documents were actually written to be read‚ but rather written to be spoken. They are written so that anyone of any intellect would be able to comprehend them. Of the many rhetorical devices they used rhetorical questions many times in their speeches
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Interpretation I. Plot and Plot structure Read more: (Borisova – pp.10-16) Study Supplement 2 and answer the following questions: 1. What type of conflict is the plot based on? 2. Does the plot comprise a variety of events? Do the events involve physical movement or psychological movement‚ or both? 3. Are all the events logically related to the theme of the text? 4. A successful
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