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... Explain . 6. A conceit is an elaborate , surprising , and often out- landish figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things . Conceits are frequently metaphors , similes , or analogies . Explain Lanier's conceit comparing the ...
... Explain . 6. A conceit is an elaborate , surprising , and often out- landish figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things . Conceits are frequently metaphors , similes , or analogies . Explain Lanier's conceit comparing the ...
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... Explain . CREATIVE RESPONSE In a short essay of two or three paragraphs , answer the poet's query of lines 98-100 . such a way that the sound of the words imitates the sound of the thing spoken about ; for example , " the buzzing bee ...
... Explain . CREATIVE RESPONSE In a short essay of two or three paragraphs , answer the poet's query of lines 98-100 . such a way that the sound of the words imitates the sound of the thing spoken about ; for example , " the buzzing bee ...
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... Explain why the oiler's death is ironic . Cite examples in support of your answer . ( b ) What type of irony does Crane use in the death of the oiler , verbal irony or irony of situation ? 9. Explain why the description , near the ...
... Explain why the oiler's death is ironic . Cite examples in support of your answer . ( b ) What type of irony does Crane use in the death of the oiler , verbal irony or irony of situation ? 9. Explain why the description , near the ...
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BERNARD MALAMUD | 20 |
THE NOBEL PRIZE 27 | 64 |
RALPH ELLISON | 75 |
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Agapito AMANDA American asked Aylmer Batman Bernice boat called captain Copyright CREATIVE RESPONSE dance dark day-bed dead death Deerslayer door DOUGLASS Dreiser E. B. White E. E. Cummings EXPLORATION eyes face father feel girl Glass Menagerie hair hand Harpers Ferry HARRY head heard horse JOHN BROWN Kiowas knew laughed LAURA light literary lived looked Marjorie Mary MARY WARREN mean mind MISS MCCUTCHEON mother Negro ness never night Pepé play poem poet poetry Prudencio de Pereda Pulitzer Prize Reprinted by permission Robert Hayden seemed sitting slave sound stand stood story T. S. Eliot talk tell things thou thought tion took trees turned voice W. H. Auden walked words WOZZECK writing young