Figurative language and literary devices are meant to make reading poetry an enjoyable experience. For example, alliteration and consonance play on the way that words sound, allowing the words to flow together in a pleasing way. Similes, metaphors, and personification are three of the most ...
The list’s ubiquity and adaptability to a sheer infinite number of different contexts may be the reason why the form, in both its literary and everyday variations, has drawn an increasing amount of critical attention across disciplines in the humanities over the past decade. As early as the ...
2.An instance of rigorous or excessive adherence to recognized forms. 3.A method of aesthetic analysis that emphasizes structural elements and artistic techniques rather than content, especially in literary works. for′mal·istadj.& n. for′mal·is′ticadj. ...
particularly regarding the environment. Finding a “Feather” causes Atwood to think of the “calligraphy of wrecked wings” and of the feather’s owner being “a high flyer once as we all were”. (This is one of many references to birds, which are a particular...
Check. Lines and other devices to illustrate motion, impact, and other “invisible” elements? Check. Whether or not you think the work has aged well is a matter of taste, I suppose. 4) Little Nemo in Slumberland” by Winsor McCay, 1905-1914, U.S.A.. McCay couldn’t write a ...
The same happens in literary contests, where each judge only reads a small number of manuscripts. In the case of the results shown by search engines, it is clear that only the first Top k web pages are displayed, being, as a consequence, an incomplete ranking. We use, and extend, the...
[Citation needed] France is a major arms seller,[164][165] with most of its arsenal's designs available for the export market, except for the nuclear-powered devices. One French intelligence unit, the Directorate-General for External Security (Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure),...
It is set in an alternate England where the Crimean War has lasted more than 150 years, where art appreciation has developed into hooliganism and where you can earn a living as a literary detective. fforde’s novels enganges with the vast and imposing heritage of English literature in an ...
All the bottles of Twee-Be-Gone in the world couldn't break up their fey, literary core (and we're grateful for that), but if you had told me five years ago that they'd release a funky, swaggering suite like "Your Cover's Blown", I'd have told you to buy a new set of ...
Here, Lindstrøm plays a frittering Moroder-type producer while Christabelle vamps Donna Summer, but the collaboration also recalls the friendship of No Wave pioneers Richard Hell and his literary muse Lizzy Mercier Descloux. Like Descloux, Christabelle barges like a tornado into Lindstrøm's ...