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Tokneneng (or tukneneng) is a tempura-like Filipino street food made by deep-frying hard-boiled chicken or duck eggs covered in orange batter. [1] A popular variation of tokneneng is kwek kwek. Kwek-kwek is traditionally made with quail eggs, [1] which are smaller, with batter made by mixing annatto powder or annatto seeds that have been soaked ...
Kwek's poems have been included in the Singapore A-Level literature syllabus. [5] His long poem, Terezin, was performed at the 2016 Oxford New Writing Festival. The poem was also adapted as a chamber opera by Daniel Bonaventure Lim at the Performing the Jewish Archives project at the University of Leeds.
This is the same structure as in the modern English term "skyscraper"; the base-word here would be "scraper", and the determinant "sky". In some languages, kennings can recurse, with one element of the kenning being replaced by another kenning. The meaning of the kenning is known as its referent (in the case of "whale's road", "sea" is the ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Queequeg is a character in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville.The story outlines his royal, Polynesian descent, as well as his desire to "visit Christendom" that led him to leave his homeland. [1]
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
Gnomic literature, including Maxims I and Maxims II, is a genre of Medieval Literature in England. The gnomic spirit has occasionally been displayed by poets of a homely philosophy, such as Francis Quarles (1592–1644) in England and Gui de Pibrac (1529–1584) in France.
The following year Watson appears for the first time as an English poet in verses prefixed to George Whetstone's Heptameron, and in a far more important work, as the author of the Hekatompathia or Passionate Centurie of Love, dedicated to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, who had read the poems in manuscript and encouraged Watson to publish them.