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  2. English Reader or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from ...

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    The English Reader: or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; to Improve Their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue.

  3. Short story - Wikipedia

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    It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends , mythic tales , folk tales , fairy tales , tall tales , fables , and anecdotes ...

  4. Commedia erudita - Wikipedia

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    The development of commedia erudita was widely anticipated by writers and audiences. While there are known medieval examples of adaptations of Roman plays, like Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim who adapted Terents, there was now a sustained attempt to restore the comedies written by the Romans in the 2nd century B.C.E.

  5. Style (book) - Wikipedia

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    Lucas begins with a definition of style in prose, and a discussion of its importance. He questions the extent to which style can be taught, given that it is a reflection of personality ("The problems of style are really problems of personality" [6]), but concludes that "Writers should write from the best side of their characters, and at their best moments."

  6. Cut-up technique - Wikipedia

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    The Tristan Tzara Arcade is a collection of Cut-up pieces composed from text found in the public domain. These pieces can be further arranged by the reader using an automated (jQuery script) reTypesetting function (which illustrates how possible variant compositions can be achieved using the Cut-up technique).

  7. The Sense of Style - Wikipedia

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    Reverse-engineering good prose as the key to developing a writerly ear – The starting point for becoming a good writer is to be a good reader. Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks, and with them a sensitivity to how they mesh and how they clash.

  8. Le Spleen de Paris - Wikipedia

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    Le Spleen de Paris explores the idea of pleasure as a vehicle for expressing emotion. Many of the poems refer to sex or sin explicitly (i.e. "Double Bedroom," "A Hemisphere in a Head of Hair", "Temptations"); others use subtle language and imagery to evoke sensuality (i.e. "the Artist's Confiteor").

  9. Romance (prose fiction) - Wikipedia

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    Walter Scott describes romance as a "kindred term", [3] and many European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo". [4] There is a second type of romance, genre fiction love romances, where the primary focus is on love and marriage. [5]