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  2. Slow reading - Wikipedia

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    The use of slow reading in literary criticism is sometimes referred to as close reading.Of less common usage is the term, "deep reading". [1]Slow reading is contrasted with speed reading which involves techniques to increase the rate of reading without adversely affecting comprehension, and contrasted with skimming which employs visual page cues to increase reading speed.

  3. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]

  4. List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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    Irish Literary Revival was a movement within Celtic Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century that advocated rebirth of creativity in Irish language and included such poets as George Sigerson, W. B. Yeats, Roger Casement, and Thomas MacDonagh.

  5. Sturm und Drang - Wikipedia

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    Clearing Up: Coast of Sicily, Andreas Achenbach, 1847. Sturm und Drang (/ ˌ ʃ t ʊər m ʊ n t ˈ d r æ ŋ,-ˈ d r ɑː ŋ /, [1] German: [ˈʃtʊʁm ʔʊnt ˈdʁaŋ]; usually translated as "storm and stress" [2]) was a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s.

  6. Pace (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, a literary story needs the dialogue to match the pace of the other elements in the story—it needs to move more slowly. [39] Genre stories generally move quickly, employing more dialogue and action and less slow-paced narrative, because they are generally plot-driven rather than character-driven, like literary and mainstream stories.

  7. Slow movement (culture) - Wikipedia

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    Slow Money takes its name from the Slow Food movement. Slow Money aims to develop the relationship between capital markets and place, including social and soil fertility. It supports grass-roots mobilization through network building, convening, publishing, and incubating intermediary strategies and structures of funding. [citation needed]

  8. Sonata - Wikipedia

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    A middle movement, most frequently a slow movement: an Andante, an Adagio or a Largo; or less frequently a Minuet or Theme and Variations form. A closing movement was generally an Allegro or a Presto, often labeled Finale. The form was often a Rondo or Minuet. However, two-movement layouts also occur, a practice Haydn uses as late as the 1790s.

  9. Slow movement - Wikipedia

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    Slow movement may refer to: Slow movement (music) Slow movement (culture) Bradykinesia, "slow movement", a symptom of Parkinson's disease; See also.