Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the EssayThis textbook provides students with an approach to literary works that emphasizes the reading process as an active enterprise, involving thought and feeling, as well as the intellectual acts. It introduces the traditional literary elements by means of discussions closely tied to works in each of the four genres: fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay in which the students are asked to return to certain works to reconsider them from different perspectives. Regarding the poetry section two special features are included: a substantial number of poems in translation (35 trans. fr. 8 languages) and a special selection of poetic transformations (the way poets have modified their own and other artists' work by means of. |
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The elements of a poem include a speaker whose voice we hear in it ; its diction or selection of words ; its syntax or the order of those words ; its imagery or details of sight , sound , taste , smell , and touch ; its figures of ...
The elements of a poem include a speaker whose voice we hear in it ; its diction or selection of words ; its syntax or the order of those words ; its imagery or details of sight , sound , taste , smell , and touch ; its figures of ...
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voice end and the second begin ? Describe and characterize each voice . 2. Pinpoint the place where the two voices converge . What is the effect of their convergence ? And thought about it . MINIVER CHEEVY 11 Thebes Greek Voice ...
voice end and the second begin ? Describe and characterize each voice . 2. Pinpoint the place where the two voices converge . What is the effect of their convergence ? And thought about it . MINIVER CHEEVY 11 Thebes Greek Voice ...
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We cannot see the TV screen , but we hear the voices of four women , all talking excitedly at once . THAW ( to the screen and the world in general ) : God , these Liberation gals ! Still at it . MALE MODERATOR'S VOICE ( full of paternal ...
We cannot see the TV screen , but we hear the voices of four women , all talking excitedly at once . THAW ( to the screen and the world in general ) : God , these Liberation gals ! Still at it . MALE MODERATOR'S VOICE ( full of paternal ...
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Contents
CHAPTER Reading Stories | 3 |
CHAPTER Types of Short Fiction | 19 |
CHAPTER Elements of Fiction | 26 |
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| Title | Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay |
| Author | Robert DiYanni |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0075571129, 9780075571124 |
| Length | 1746 pages |
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