novelists to write about because they’re all so beautiful. Alas I must though and I picked Elizabeth Browning and Charles Dickens because they were the most impactful Victorian era male and female poets. I will be talking about their lives and their literature. I hope this essay will be much informative of the two. Now Charles Dickens took life in his story way beyond more than just imagining it. He talks about the sounds, smells of what he wrote about. Charles Dickens is one of the most famous poets
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Novels are criticized to see if the author creates a book that will stand the test of time. Jane Eyre and The Joy Luck Club both connect the maternal figure and use the narrative language to tell the stories of the women in both novels. Charlotte Brontë has created a novel that is referenced often and allows coming of age novels to spring-board off of her beliefs. Amy Tan’s coming of age novel could stand to be the test of time and can be modeled after Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre not only stands the test
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Naomi Long Madgett’s meaningful poem “Women with Flower” makes a marvelous companion read to the heart heavy short prose “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, with its methods of figurative language that allow the poem to reflect Hurst’s prose therefore emphasizing the meaning behind Hurst’s words and the dangers of pride. The extensive use of personification and metaphors in Madgett’s poem, make it easy to understand. Nevertheless it still allows her to get her point across. The personification “let
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James Joyce is considered one of the most famous personalities in Irish literature, as well as a central figure of the early twentieth century modernist movement. His innovative use of language was far removed from literary tradition, and Joyce was among the first modern writers utilize the technique of interior monologue (Ryan). It was using new ideas like this, also dubbed the "stream of consciousness" narration, that made Joyce popular as a modernist in the twentieth century (Ryan). Joyce's most
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Reading a bunch of books a month is a hobby, right? Writing books is a job, is this true? Learning to read books is a requirement in school to pass 1st grade, correct? And what about stealing books that are going to be burnt for some lunatic that leads an entire country, is that some sort of crime? Can you still be considered a protagonist? In the story of Liesel Meminger in The Book Thief, yes, you are still considered a hero, a person of amazement, and a protagonist. But why? Why are you still
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Pablo Neruda uses figurative language in order to depict the theme of nostalgia. An example of this is, “The land I had lost with my childhood--- and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.” This represents how Neruda has forgotten about the joy of being outdoors when he was a child. It states that he is “wounded by the wandering scent.” This portrays that he is hurt when thinking about this particular, past memory. Although it could exemplify that this is a bad memory, he is actually hurt because
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finishing up (or so I think) with my first book, which I hope to publish. I can honestly say that I would never have wanted to write had it not been for the works of Tolkien. Those four books have done more for me than any other work of fiction or literature ever has before. I have gone through different phases before, but this is the only one to truly have lasted. Furthermore, becoming an author has been the only future, aside from horseback riding, that I have been diligently working
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thinking about writing once more. He makes an analogy to the dwindling phial that is emitting and evaporating. He is saying that as the phial is leaking so is his passion and intrigue for writing. Like the phial, his intellect is dying and so is his literature. During his stay at the Custom House, Hawthorne is elected in office and starts to become the person he dreads the most. He begins to conform to whoever wins, the party, just to gain security in his job. He begins to join the crowd or corruption
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set. This books is about how Martians, who have more advanced technology, attack England. The literature in this book used by H.G. Wells describes how the Martians have superior weaponry system, machinery, and tactics and how the humans fight against it. In The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells uses foreshadowing, dialogue, and imagery to pull the reader into a wonderful story. The first type of literature used by H.G. Wells to welcome the reader into the story is foreshadowing. For example, “No one
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Rhetorical Analysis of “On the Want of Money” by William Hazlitt Nineteenth-century author William Hazlitt argues in his essay “On the Want of Money” that money is not the root of all evil but an imperative aspect to a content life. To substantiate his beliefs, he uses prompt rhetorical devices and strenuous vocabulary to develop his ethical appeal in addition to a distinct structure to create the sense of a fast-paced situation which helps engage the reader and add a sense of legitimacy to the
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