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  2. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories - Wikipedia

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    While the book was ultimately retained, Crutcher met with the student and emphasized her bravery to challenge the book, defending her right to do so. [14] Athletic Shorts was challenged again in 2004 in Solon, Iowa, when a man named Doug Singkofer argued that the story "directly contradicts and undermines the beliefs and teachings of our faith".

  4. Cut-up technique - Wikipedia

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    [18] Another industrial music pioneer, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, named Burroughs and his cut-up technique as the most important influence on how he approached the use of samples. [ 19 ] Many Elephant 6 bands used decoupe as well, one prominent example of this is seen in " Pree-Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye " by Neutral Milk Hotel .

  5. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    Words with the middle part of the word left out are few. They may be further subdivided into two groups: (a) words with a final-clipped stem retaining the functional morpheme: maths (mathematics), specs (spectacles); (b) contractions due to a gradual process of elision under the influence of rhythm and context.

  6. The Old Man and his Sons - Wikipedia

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    There "A good old man, no matter where, Whether in York or Lancashire," gives the lesson on his deathbed and the poem concludes with a Christian reflection. [14] Over the following decades of the 19th century, it also appeared as a cheaply printed chapbook and in book-length collections of moralising works. [15]

  7. Story within a story - Wikipedia

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    The book includes footnotes and letters that tell their own stories only vaguely related to the events in the main narrative of the book, and footnotes for fake books. Robert A. Heinlein 's later books ( The Number of the Beast , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and To Sail Beyond the Sunset ) propose the idea that every real universe is a ...

  8. The Spider's Thread - Wikipedia

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    Akutagawa was known for piecing together many different sources for many of his stories, and "The Spider's Thread" is no exception. He read Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov in English translation sometime between 1917 and 1918, and the story of "The Spider's Thread" is a retelling of a very short fable from the novel known as the Fable of the Onion, where an evil woman who had done ...

  9. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    The cartoon is a pun on the word Jamaica, whose pronunciation [dʒəˈmeɪkə] is a homonym to the clipped form of "Did you make her?" Figures of speech come in many varieties. [7] The aim is to use the language imaginatively to accentuate the effect of what is being said. A few examples follow: