Analysis of “To kill a mockingbird” Saryuna Rinchino, gr. 02193 The story under analysis is an extract from a novel “To kill a mockingbird”. The book was written by Harper Lee in 1960. Harper Lee was born in 1926 in the state of Alabama. In 1945-1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. “To kill a mockingbird” is her first novel and after being published it was highly acclaimed and even was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, one of the most important awards in literature. The book became
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2. Describe the later period. Your description should include the characteristics of the style, and historical conditions that may have contributed to the advent of this style. 3. Describe the relationship between the periods. a. Explain the stylistic similarities or differences between the periods. b. Explain one reason the later period continued or deviated from the artistic style and tradition of the earlier period. 4. Describe the similarities or differences between two specific works,
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Is a life lost when kept within boundaries? For Sherman Alexie the answer is yes. He is a Spokane Indian and also a prominent writer. He is the author of “Superman and Me” a short essay first published in Los Angeles Times, April 19 1998, as part of the series “The Joy of Reading and Writing”. In this piece Alexie describes how he taught himself how to read at the age of three and how he manage to literally read his way out of the reservation in which he grew up. By narrating his own story, he illustrates
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Mies’s German Pavilion as an Expression of Modernism Constructed for the International Exhibition of 1929, Mies van der Rohe’s German Pavilion at Barcelona was designed “to represent Germany’s openness, liberality, modernity and internationalism” at the conclusion of World War I. With its logical free plan, glass and marble walls, steel supports and lack of ornamentation, it embodied the principles of architectural modernism. An object of simple serenity for those living in the perils of a
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The architectural critic Montgomery Schulyer wrote about the new St. Thomas as ‘one of the chief architectural ornaments of New York’. The ornament and detail within the church quickly made it into a recognizable monument in Manhattan. America springs to action during the spring of 1917 with resolute and celebratory emotion, while anticipating victory. The American, British, and French flags ran sequentially along the wide bustling street of Frederick Childe Hassam’s painted Allies Day, May, 1917
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Stylistic and rhetorical strategies Mark Twain uses in Corn-Pone Opinions include imagery and motif. The imagery of the hoop skirt helps the reader identify how fads cause controversy, but can easily become everyone’s sense of identity or the opposite of it. Through this imagery, a motif is created which displays how various fads and ideas, lead to the creation of corn-pone opinions and the division of people. Overall, this motif helps the reader identify how people divide based on what new ideas
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Gr.301 Russu Cristian Narrative Essay The legend of the Coral Island - NOPOMBALU The legend of the Coral Island - NOPOMBALU Once upon a time there were a handsome hunter, his name was Lawongo. In the jungle he only hunted wild hogs. The animals often destroyed the villagers' fields. The villagers were very grateful. With Lawongo's help, their fields were safe from the wild hogs. Lawongo was also very great in playing a flute, it was so melodious, like the night butterflies, dancing
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with the exposition. In this part of the text the narrator tries to persuade the reader that the story he is going to tell is true, and for this purpose the following stylistic devises are used. "The Pyrrhonism of my opinions has at all times rendered me notorious." The metaphor "the Pyrrhonism" means skepticism, for this stylistic device refers to a philosopher's name Pyrrhon, who tended to doubt and not to believe the fundamental truths. The epithet "notorious" and the phraseological unit "at
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Sonnet LXV The main theme of this sonnet is destructive power of time, how it destroys all earthly things. In the first line "brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea" can escape the ravages of time. In this line the Speaker used such stylistic devise as gradation: “brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”, it’s also a personification the materials of the nature. Line 3 asks, "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea," characterizing beauty as the plaintiff in a legal dispute
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Analysis of «To Kill a Mockingbird» written by Harper Lee The story under consideration is called « To Kill a Mockingbird» written by Harper Lee. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. Harper Lee grew up in the small southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville. Lee published her first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, in 1960 after a two-year period of revising and rewriting under the guidance of her editor, Tay Hohoff, of the J. B. Lippincott Company. To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961
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