Lafcadio Hearn‚ European-born American author‚ wrote novels and articles with exotic themes in highly precise and polished prose. Lafcadio Hearn was born June 27‚ 1850‚ on the Greek island of Santa Maura. His mother was Maltese and his father a British army surgeon of Anglo-Irish extraction. When Hearn was 2‚ his mother abandoned him to an aunt in Dublin‚ who later sent him to St. Cuthbert’s College to prepare for the priesthood. There he lost his left eye in an accident; he lost much of his religious
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Coursework Guidance GCE English Literature OCR Advanced GCE in English Literature H471 Unit F664 Texts in Time This Coursework Guidance is designed to accompany the OCR Advanced GCE specification in English Literature for teaching from September 2008. © OCR 2007 Content 1 2 3 4 5 6 Introduction Summary of Unit Content Coursework Guidance Assessment Criteria Unit F664 Texts in Time Administration/Regulations FAQs 3 4 6 16 20 24 2 GCE English Literature 1 Introduction The
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5 Important Elements of a Short Story A short story is a short work of fiction. Fiction‚ as you know‚ is prose writing about imagined events and characters. Prose writing differs from poetry in that it does not depend on verses‚ meters or rhymes for its organization and presentation. Novels are another example of fictional prose and are much longer than short stories. Some short stories‚ however‚ can be quite long. If a a short story is a long one‚ say fifty to one hundred pages‚ we call it
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Poetic Drama /Verse Drama of Modern age Poetic Drama Eliot’s plays attempt to revitalize verse drama and usually treat the same themes as in his poetry. They include Murder in the Cathedral (1935)‚ dealing with the final hours of Thomas à Becket; The Family Reunion (1939); The Cocktail Party (1950); The Confidential Clerk (1954); and The Elder Statesman (1959)..(1) Indeed‚ Eliot hoped that the study and critical reception of early modern verse drama would shape the production of modernist
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Minimalist prose. All this has been enough to keep me away from Carver for about a decade--a fruitful separation that weaned me from the stylistic Jonestown Kool-Aid of "See Spot run. See Jane drink. See Dick screw" Minimalism. Now I have returned to Carver’s first collection‚ Will You Please Be Quiet‚ Please?‚ and in its first story‚ "Fat‚" I find an excellent example of what has always impressed me about his best work. It’s not the over-imitated‚ stripped-beyond-Hemingway prose‚ and not the
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References: Bear‚ Donald R.‚ Invernizzi‚ Marcia‚ Johnston‚ Francine & Templeton‚ Shane (2004). Words Their Way. Upper Saddle River‚ New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc. Butako‚ Danuata‚ & Daehler‚ Marvin W. (2001). Language. In Child Development: A Thematic Approach. Boston‚ MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Ejiri‚ Keiko
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National Average of Gas Prices 2000-2001 In the beginning of the summer‚ when most people drive to vacation spots throughout the United States‚ gas prices reached record highs. In June 2000‚ the national average was $1.68 per gallon and in some larger cities; the prices soared to $2.00 and more per gallon (Facts.com‚ 2005). Americans were furious not only because consumers were paying more at the pumps‚ but because rising fuel costs have triggered inflation. Americans realized that if
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mengulas tahap-tahap produksi dari film The Devil Wears Prada. A. Proses Produksi Film Proses pembuatan film pada dasarnya berawal dari pengungkapan ide dan gagasan seseorang yang dituangkan dalam penulisan scenario‚ syuting‚ editing dan akhirnya distribusi serta ekshibisi pada publik. Seiring perkembangan teknologi multimedia‚ manipulasi image dan pembuatan efek memungkinkan pembuatan film menjadi lebih bagus dan bervariasi. Proses ini memakan waktu yang tidak menentu‚ dengan jumlah orang yang relatif
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fiction‚The Decameron is regarded as one of the earliest works of prose writing in Italian. Boccaccio was the master of the spoken language and of the swift‚ vivid‚ narrative style which is free from the abundance of ornament. He was also a master of the classical models of select vocabulary as seen in his prefaces to the days and the individual stories. These two aspects of The Decameron made it the origin of Italian literary prose for the following centuries. The work also contains ‘canzone’ – examples
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create further meaning‚ such as assonance‚ alliteration and onomatopoeia. These sound effects have a particular function in a poem. Poems often make heavy use of imagery and word association to quickly convey emotions.[1] Poetry is distinguished from prose because are used some techniques such as rhyme‚ meter and repetition. The same sounds can convey different meanings and it depends on the context of a poem. Sound patterns can be also discovered in some advertising slogans. In advertisement we
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