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    In Robert Frost's Poem "Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening" the speaker chooses to surround himself with the dangers of nature away from the comforts of society; whereas Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" is in a tower locked away from the beauties of society because of her own fears. As the speaker in Frost's poem secludes himself from society he notices the dangers around him and what they could potentially cause. In Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" he describes a man…

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    “…the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food…” is an example of that literary device, and it shows that the scorpion was like the darkness and greed of the town or the sense of hunger in the smell of food. Another example is “ ‘This pearl has become my soul,’ said Kino. ‘If I give it up, I shall lose my soul.’ ” This shows…

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    The monologue is from the Twelfth Night. That monologue encompasses various literary elements that have varying significance to the monologue itself and the readers as well. The extent of this significance is dependent on the extent of the meaning that the literary devices add to the monologue. Therefore, the literary devices and elements employed in the monologue add meaning to it, make it more interesting, provide an understanding of how various elements can be analyzed in society and…

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    theme was the effects the war had on people. The people in the book changed in many different ways because of the war. O’Brien uses literary devices, and literary elements in the Things They Carried to emphasize the effects that the war had on the soldiers. First of all, by expressing how O’Brien and his group of soldiers changed through the war he used many literary devices, such as anaphora. One example of O’Brien using anaphora in his novel is “Forty three years ago, and the war occurred a…

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    Science fiction as a literary genre has come a long way from Verne's search for the center of the earth and Wells' travel through time in his time machine. Contemporary science fiction is more willing to challenge the limits of possibilities and more eager to push the boundaries of human imagination. More importantly, science fiction often acts as a precursor to scientific thought, and forebodes new research; projects such as Google Glass can be traced to similar ideas presented much earlier in…

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    There are many different literary devices; I will explain the many different forms of these devices; that are used in every literature book that has been published since ancient times. Dramatic irony is used when an audience knows something that the characters in the literature story do not know. Many different stories and literature books use this with many different genres such as In Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows that Juliet is already married to Romeo but her family does not know this…

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    children's books so that he could keep up with them. Hannah even co authored with him in the book Hey, Little Ant. A well known title that Phillip Hoose wrote is Claudette Colvin along with a lot of other books that he has won medals for. Phillip Hoose genre is nonfiction and fiction he even was in the running for…

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    From caterpillar to butterfly. New York, NY: HarperCollins. AGE JUSTIFICATION: This factual book is suitable for preschool children ages 4 to 8. The colorful illustrations throw a twist in the so-called “norm” of children’s nonfiction being that the genre of books usually contains real photographs and this one contains hand drawn illustrations. These illustrations make the book more appealing to this particular audience since the books they usually read are picture books, and now that a factual…

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    Stone Hammer Poem

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    done by emphasizing the survival of humanity through the needs of the object, the importance of literary devices, and by revolving around the life and past experiences of the author to the connection of the figure. Throughout the two poems, the author displays his argument by displaying the spacing in each stanza, emphasizing the value and need of a figurative object, and parading the usage of literary devices. In both…

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    In her novel Push, Sapphire uses multiple literary techniques to demonstrate how Precious creates a self-identity and a form of independence. As Precious learns to read, write, and create perceptions of her life and the world, she realizes that she is an individual that is unique and beautiful. Through Precious’s character, Sapphire reveals the emergence of a persons self-identity and newly discovered independence through a story of traumatic experiences. From the beginning of the novel,…

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