According to the information collected by the USSR‚ during World War II‚ over 11 million people were killed‚ and countless people lost their rights and freedom for over four years. More than 20 countries were involved in this bloody war. The Nazi’s merciless actions towards the Jewish people captivated the attention of the whole world. The Nazis took the lives of more than six million Jews‚ including newborn babies and children. This was obviously a cruel operation. However‚ according to Anne Frank
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Dramatic Literacy Devices Allegory A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress‚ in which the name of the central character‚ Pilgrim‚ epitomizes the book’s allegorical nature. Kay Boyle’s story "Astronomer’s Wife" and Christina Rossetti’s poem "Up-Hill" both contain allegorical elements. Catastrophe The
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We will answer some questions which people didn’t even know had risen such as: Do ‘good looking people’ enjoy preferential treatment in society? Does discrimination based on a person’s exterior beauty exist? This paper explores the concept of beauty and the biases linked with it. What is lookism? Lookism is a topic that has rarely been publicly acknowledged. The term was first used in the Washington Post Magazine in 1978‚ its explained as prejudice toward people due to their appearance (Tietje &
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facial expression‚ eye contact. Punctuation Examples: A woman; without her‚ man is nothing. A woman‚ without her man‚ is nothing. (Nice Gloria) Dear John‚ I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous‚ kind‚ and thoughtful. People‚ who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we’re apart. I can be forever happy. Will you let me be yours? Gloria (Mean Gloria) Dear John‚ I
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“How Good People Turn Evil” Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer. Nothing is more difficult than understanding him. Dostoevsky Understanding is not excusing. Though it may help to prevent wrong acts against humanity in the future (may it?). The world was created with the potential of sin. Looking at the theological approach‚ Adam and Eve‚ when were put into the situation of seduction by the snake‚ started to be driven by evil
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Poetic Devices and Forms Line - equates a spatial measure or words or sounds‚ a fundamental conceptual unit. Stanza - a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length‚ metrical form‚ or rhyme scheme. Figurative language - Expressions or statements that are intentionally not literally true. Metaphor - A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving deeper meaning to the second. Forms of the "to be" verb are often used; "is" or "was". All the world’s a stage And men
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LITERARY THEORY Misconceptions about theory: 1. Theory is difficult What is difficult however is the language because most of the theorists are French 2. theory is meaningless‚ pretentious jargon 3. that we are intellectually incapable of coping with it(i.e we are at fault) 4. We take everything as gospel truth; We should question What is literary theory? Theory is a coherent set of conceptual hypothetical and pragmatic principles forming the general frame of reference for a discipline
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There are many similarities between the short stories "Good Country People" and "Where are you going‚ Where have you been?"‚ most notably their characters. Both stories contain a female protagonist‚ and a male antagonist‚ whose confrontations start out relatively normal‚ and progress to more and more surreal and twisted endings. Their main characters‚ Hulga and Connie‚ are shockingly similar‚ and yet strangely different‚ one a 15 year old wishing to be older and beautiful‚ the other a bitter 32 year
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Literary analysis of an unseen extract: how does the author engage the reader through the use of literary devices in your given extract? The first line " In the middle of nowhere..." grabs the readers attention because it gets the reader wondering why this person is in the middle of nowhere‚ It gives the reader something to think about creating different feeling and emotions towards the reader. As you begin to read on you are given the weathers description "left behind its feeble breezes‚ but the
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