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Point In The Story Indirect Characterization
1,941 wordsAn Investigation into the Structure of Gogol's The Portrait Gogol's The Portrait, is a short story which examined through a formalistic approach, can be understood beyond its obvious storyline and plot. Formalism is the literary theory that literature is not simply a mass of words, but comprised of individual words that each may possess a social stereotype, a spiritual aspect or convey a physical response in the reader. Formalism asserts that the world is full of codes that need to be decoded. B...
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Helen Hunt Jackson Emily Dickinson
1,007 words... in hymn writing, especially iambic tetrameter (eight syllables per line, with every second syllable being stressed). She frequently employed off rhymes. Examples of off rhymes include ocean with noon and seam with swim in the lines "Than Oars divide the Ocean, / Too silver for a seam / Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon / Leap, plushness as they swim" from the poem "A Bird came down the Walk. " Dickinson used common language in startling ways; a strategy called de familiarization. This techni...
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Crying Of Lot 49 De Familiarization
1,062 wordsIn his Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure differentiates language and speech by explaining language to be social and speech to be individual. (Rivkin 76) That is, language is the means through which communication and convention are established, while speech is the way in which the individual utilizes language as a means of expression of thought. By presenting linguistics as related to semiology, Saussure provides an effectively systematic method with which to view social scienc...
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Crying Of Lot 49 Reader
1,090 wordsIn his Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure differentiates language and speech by explaining language to be social and speech to be individual. (Rivkin 76) That is, language is the means through which communication and convention are established, while speech is the way in which the individual utilizes language as a means of expression of thought. By presenting linguistics as related to semiology, Saussure provides an effectively systematic method with which to view social scienc...
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Helen Hunt Jackson Emily Dickinson
2,144 wordsEmily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830, the second of three children of Edward and Emily (Norcross) Dickinson. Samuel Fowler Dickinson, her grandfather, had been one of the founders of Amherst College, and had built a mansion on Main Street, reputed to be the first brick house in Amherst, which became known in the family as the Homestead. (Godden, 7) Her father was, like his father before him, a lawyer. Emily's older brother Austin would be a lawyer as...
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