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Literature Resource Center Short Stories
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Arthur Gordon Pym U S Military
1,742 wordsEdgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), was an American poet, short-story writer, and literary critic. Poe's stormy personal life and his haunting poems and stories combined to make him one of the most famous figures in American literary history. Poe's influence on literature has been immense. His short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) is considered the first modern detective story. His reviews of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne mark him as the first significant theorist of the modern s...
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Victorian Life Through Color
1,826 wordsThe use of color in Victorian literature and art has gone far beyond simple description to form it's very own sort of diction. Whether reading Victorian prose or looking at a Pre-Rapaelite painting one is drawn in and deeply affected by the arrangement and combination of it's colors. In the two of these mediums, each color is both powerful and used precisely either to represent a trait or emotion or to compliment other colors to form a greater representation of an idea. Furthermore, seeing these...
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Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance
1,840 wordsThroughout the history of literature, authors have told their readers of the time periods they have lived in and also they have reflected parts of their own character. One major style that has been effectively used in this manner is poetry. The style of poetry was a greatly made use of during the Harlem Renaissance, which was when the African-American "arts" was at its peak. One of the most popular poets of the Harlem Renaissance is Langston Hughes. Despite the racism that prevailed in the 1920 ...
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Willa Cather Atlantic Monthly
1,597 wordsThesis: Sarah Orne Jewett, a native of Maine, was one of the first and most skilled members of the local color movement in literature. C. How it affects today's literature III. The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett, a native of Maine, was one of the first and most skilled members of the local color movement in literature. She was a novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. A country doctor's daughter, Jewett's experiences in accompanying her father on his calls had an importa...
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Beatrice And Benedick Act 1 Scene 1
1,707 wordsExamine the differences between the Hero and Claudio relationship and the relationship between Beatrice and Benedick. Throughout lessons we have read one of Shakespeare's well-known comedies, Much Ado About Nothing. The comedy is well known for its tragedies, deception, mischief and love stories. In this piece of coursework I will be examining and comparing the relationship between Beatrice and Benedick and the relationship between Hero and Claudio, the two central couples in Shakespeare's play....
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End Of The Scene Goody Proctor
2,332 wordsThe Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller, which is based on the true story of the Salem witch trails. Miller wanted theatre to heighten the awareness of what living in our time involves. Therefore, his play has many links with the modern world, McCarthyism for instance. Breaking it down into many smaller scenes, I will analyse Act 1 of The Crucible. I am doing this to explore the dramatic effect of character and action. The Crucible is a powerful drama and is strongly built to bring out t...
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Review Of Red Badge Courage By Stephen Crane
1,235 wordsCommonly considered Stephen Crane's greatest accomplishment, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) ranks among the foremost literary achievements of the modern era. When its publication was announced in Publisher's Weekly on 5 October 1895, Crane was largely unknown. Although his volume of poetry published earlier that year, The Black Riders, had made some waves in literary circles, it struck most readers as quirky and cryptic. The gritty social realism of his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Street...
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Martin Luther King Jr A Question Of Ethics
1,336 wordsA Letter from Birmingham Jail" was penned as a response to a letter that criticized Martin Luther King Jr. written by eight high ranking clergymen. Although King's letter was addressed as a reply to these clergymen, the real audience was the "white moderate" - otherwise known as middle class America (King et al 106). By gaining the support of this majority group, King knew that the civil rights movement could achieve its goals of removing the illegal segregation practices that were still in plac...
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Works Of Literature Literary Techniques
1,385 wordsLiterature and Rhetoric Overview Paper The role of Arabs in the world civilization is closely related to blossom and spread of Islam. Unfortunately, the data concerning pre-Islamic history of literature in Arabian Peninsula is extremely poor and is rich in gaps. However, Arabian literature (predominantly, the poetry) existed before Muhammad (570 - 632). Bedouins contributed to the development of extremely rich and expressive Arabic language. According to the latest data, there are several sample...
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Farewell To Arms Man And The Sea
944 wordsErnest Hemingway Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea are often regarded as his best novels. These novels are known for Hemingway's interesting writing style and his bright manner of narration. A Farewell to Arms is a good example of so-called crisp precise prose and is characterized by lively assertive staccato (Astro 47). His style can be described as the style of eloquent repression. His prose is simple, laconic, lean, idiomatic and sparse. The main peculiarities in thes...
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Jorge Luis Borges Style
2,103 wordsJorge Luis Borges Style Jorge Luis Borges is the Argentina writer. He began his literary activity in Spain as one of founders of a modernist direction - ultraism which principles he have later developed in the Argentina poetry. Borges has gained wide popularity with fantastic stories that contained idea of absurdity of the world to that their complicated figurative structure corresponds. He was the author of many literary researches and essays. Ultraism is one of the "left" directions in the Spa...
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2 7 151 Sound In Jaques Speech Sounds
854 wordsShakespeare As You Like It: Effective Use Shakespeare As You Like It: Effective Use Of Sound In Jaques Speech Shakespeare As You Like It: Effective Use of Sound In Jaques Speech As infamous as Shakespeare is, and as well known as his works are, some prose are just simply more extraordinary than the rest. There are many ways to look at Jaques speech, such as use of language or imagery yet, something we often do not reflect on is the sound of the prose. When reading this particular speech, the sub...
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Br Nte Jane Eyre Reed
537 wordsCommentary on Jane Eyre This particular excerpt of Charlotte Br nte s Jane Eyre is in prose, told in a first person narrative. It is about the last moments that Jane Eyre is locked in the red room after being wrongly accused of pouncing on Mrs. Reed s son, in which her mind has drifted off to the topic of ghosts and spirits coming back from the dead to take revenge on the living and then, upon thinking she has seen a ghost, flies into a panic, waking the whole household and being severely scolde...
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Edgar Allen Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson
2,368 wordsBorn in Boston in 1809, Edgar Poe was destined to lead a rather somber and brief life, most of ita struggle against poverty. His mother died when Edgar was only two, his father already long disappeared. He was raised as a foster child in Virginia by Frances Allen and her husband John, a Richmond tobacco merchant. Poe later lived in Baltimore with his aunt, Maria Clear and her daughter Virginia, whom he eventually married. The trio formed a household which moved to New York and then to Philadelph...
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E E Cummings Black Against White
1,466 wordsE. E. Cummings, who was born in 1894 and died in 1962, wrote many poems with unconventional punctuation and capitalization, and unusual line, word, and even letter placements. Cummings most difficult form of prose is probably the ideogram; it is extremely short and it combines both visual and aural elements. There may be sounds or characters on the page that cannot be said or cannot carry the same message if pronounced and not read. Four of Cummings poems l (a, mortals), ! blac, and swi illustra...
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Black Against White E E Cummings
1,862 wordsOutline I. Introduction A. Cummings? life B. Introduction to Cummings? ideogram form C. 5 Poems being analyzed D. Thesis Statement: Cummings utilizes unique syntax in these poems in order to convey messages visually as well as verbally. II. Poem analyses A. l (a 1. Theme not sadness or loneliness, but oneness 2. Syntax a. instances of? 1? in the poem b. shape of a poem representing leaf falling 3. Images one and oneness B. mortals) 1. Theme a. ? each ness? b. ? climb? and? be? 2. Syntax a. open ...
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Animal Farm Gulliver Travels
1,780 wordsGeorge Orwell was chiefly interested in justice and equality. He was a deeply pessimistic man who had powers of imagination which few of his contemporaries dreamed one man could have. Orwell s character and writing style was so deep that qualities that were and still are manifest in his work, did not reveal themselves in his life (Scott-Killer 273). In his short life, Orwell distinguished himself as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary critic, and political polemicist. In his writings, Orw...
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