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- 651: Metaphors, Exaggeration, and Alliteration in Beowulf
- ... ÅThe water boiled in a bloody swirling" (933) " ^ÅThe swimming forms of sea-dragons, / Dim serpent shapes in the watery depths". These are the pictures that nightmares are made of. In comparison to our modern fiction, Beowulf might seem wordy and lengthy but when a reader takes time to savor the graphic descriptions, vivid imagery, clever alliteration, and fantastic exaggerations one can understand how this thirteen hundred-year-old epic poem ...
- 652: "To Build a Fire"
- ... survive in an extremely low range of temperature. Once this range of temperatures has been exceeded, the human body begins to loss certain function essential for survival. A great example of this is the realistic fiction story "To Build a Fire" written by Jack London. This story takes place in the Alaskan Yukon, where a man is prospecting for gold. "The trouble with the man was that he was without imagination ...
- 653: Greek Mythology
- ... last thing that remained in the jar was hope, which Pandora released and enabled humankind to go on living. IV. ACTIVITIES Activity One: What is a Myth? Objectives a. The students will distinguish between realistic fiction and fantasy. b. The students will listen and respond attentively and respectfully in a discussion. c. The students will be able to understand the difference between a myth and reality through active listening and meaningful ...
- 654: An Understanding of Coles’s Essay Through Susan Bordo’s Terms
- ... of Coles’s Essay Through Susan Bordo’s Terms Specific terms from Susan Bordo’s essay “Hunger is Ideology” can be used to form a better understanding of Robert Coles’s essay “Tradition: Fact and Fiction.” Representation and usable knowledge are often used by Bordo, and a correlation can also be made between the terms and sections in Coles’s essay. Although the two essay’s discuss different topics, a similarity ...
- 655: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- ... the Star and moved back to Paris to launch his career as a writer. In an examination of Hemmingway's writings is very much akin to a study of his life. Most all of his fiction was based upon or expanded from events that he himself had experienced, or at least that which he knew completely, inside and out. Being the perfectionist that he was, Ernest did not feel justified in ...
- 656: The Importance of Literature vs. Science
- ... and less human. Human's are not creatures of precision and logic, or we would have rulers for hands, and calculators for hearts. Most people would prefer to sit down and pick up a science fiction novel than a book on astrophysics. Also, writers do not have to be very skilled to be able to teach. Scientists who teach have had to train and learn for many years before they can ...
- 657: Diversity of Hawthorne's Writings in "Young Goodman Brown", "Ethan Brand", and "The Birthmark"
- ... follow her husbands wishes. Hawthorne once again writing in his time period made traditional characters of society and these people were in an average class; henceforth keeping traditional good and evil characters as in many fiction stories. Hawthorne has created a couple who are the examples of good and evil; Georgiana has the mark of innocence upon her and Aylmer carries delusions of grandeur. Georgiana is admired for her beauty by ...
- 658: The Yellow Wallpaper - Journey into Insanity
- ... wrong, and, since she knew he couldn't tolerate hysteria, to drive him away. Works Cited Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper." 1892. The New England Magazine. Reprinted in "Lives & "Moments - An Introduction to Short Fiction" by Hans Ostrom. Hold, Orlando, FL 1991.
- 659: The Elusive Form: The Use of Female Characters in "Naked Nude"
- ... of viewing her evolves, providing his epiphany VI. Relationship of female characters VII. Conclusion and restatement of thesis. Bernard Malamud, a leading contemporary Jewish author, skirts between fantasy and reality in his almost allegorical short fiction, teaching the reader a lesson through coinciding elements of beauty and comedy. Venturing away from his usual, inner-city Jewish element, Malamud tackles new challenges of subject and setting in his novelistic collection of short ...
- 660: Leggatt as an Independent Character in Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"
- ... the Craft: Conrad on Ships and Seamen and the Sea. New York: National University Publications, 1976. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Graver, Lawrence. Conrad's Short Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. Karl, Frederick Robert. Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979. Watts, Cedric. A Preface to Conrad. 2nd ed. New York: Longman Publishing, 1993.
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