Meyers 1 ENGL 1102 MW 8:00 22 September 2014 "Eve ’s Diary" by Mark Twain "Eve ’s Diary" is a satirical account of the days in the Garden of Eden. Twain recounts the well-known tale of Genesis through a series of journal entries written by Adam and Eve; these personal accounts make for an entertaining and thought-provoking read. Twain ’s personifications of gender stereotypes are easily identified but lead the reader into a further exploration of Twain ’s deeper purpose. Twain ’s writing style
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�The Lumber room� is the text for analysis‚ which represents an ironical story written by a well-known British novelist and short story writer Hector Munro. Hector Hugh Munro is best known in a literature word under a pseudonym Saki. He is acclaimed for his witty‚ sometimes whimsical‚ often cynical and bizarre short stories; they are collected in Reginald (1904)‚ The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)‚ Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)‚ and other volumes. Included among his other works are two novels‚ The
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entitled text. The title is quite provocative‚ breathtaking; it gives much food for our thought and fancy‚ appeals to our imagination and emotions. The word “recipe” implicates equipment‚ ingredients‚ amounts‚ recommendation and cooking skills‚ but this word is followed by the word “murder”‚ which may make it a riveting and promising guide to action. We can make a suggestion‚ that the story may be connected with poisoning‚ and as poisoning and cooking are women’s privileges‚ the matter of the text will
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the characters. The passage‚ The Georges and the Jewels‚ is centered around a little girl. She talks about what she thinks about horse’s behavior and also compares it to what her dad says. The story is written in first person point of view. In the text‚ it states‚ “I know Daddy had to go into town and would be gone for the afternoon‚ so when I got down there‚ I just took off the saddle and hung it over a
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In The Great Gatsby‚ an American classic depicting what has become known as “the roaring 20’s‚” F. Scott Fitzgerald uses several literary elements and plot details to show the depreciation of the American Dream through the narrator’s opinion of the state of the American dream‚ the lives of those who pursue it‚ and the result of their pursuit. Fitzgerald defines the state of the American dream through comparisons of what it had been to what he currently sees it to be in the high class society of New
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Chicago Annotation/Interactive Analysis of Text Summary: In the poem “Chicago” by “Carl Sandburg” he starts with giving the readers an image of what Chicago is like with the different types of jobs and the things the citizens do in their daily lives. At the start of the poem Sandburg explains what people would see in a daily life at Chicago‚ such as Tool making‚ farming and swine wholesale dealers. This shows that the city is full of vigorous people and that they always try to look strong
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Mark Twain‚ one of the most famous and influential American writers‚ was born in Hannibal‚ Missouri on November 30‚ 1835 and died April 21‚ 1910. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens‚ he eventually adopted his famous pseudonym in 1863. Shortly after his father’s death in 1847‚ when Clemens was twelve‚ his father passed away. After his father death‚ he applied for an apprenticeship at the local-printing shop. While working in the printing shop‚ Twain learned the skills required to be a printer and developed
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“The Masque of the Red Death” Literary Analysis Essay Using Literary Criticism Assignment: Your assignment is to write a five-paragraph essay about the symbolism used in “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe. You will have an introduction‚ three body paragraphs‚ and a conclusion. You must include at least one direct quote in each of your body paragraphs from the story as well as from an article of literary criticism. You must have a title page and works cited page. All of this must
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Criticism Formalism is a literary theory that was spearheaded by two main bodies – Russian Formalists and New Critics – which focused on understanding the literary text through the text itself. Its principles posed a great shift from the traditional approaches during its time‚ and so it sparked a movement in the field of literary studies that would adopt new perspectives and ideas. While Formalism received much criticism due to its dubious methods of the closed reading of a text‚ its lack of a solid
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Introduction to literary theory Theory Kind of speculation‚ it’s analytical Interdisciplinary discourse (debate) with effects outside an original discipline (Culler) Critique of common sense‚ of concept taken as natural What is literature? Elusive term (always changing) Modern sense – 200 yrs old Prior to 1800 literature was „memorized“ not interpreted In fiction the relation of what speaker say to what authors think is always a mater of interpretation Dictionary: imaginative or creative
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