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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. 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]

  4. 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]

  5. List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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    The Minimalism is an avantgardist artistic, dramatic and literary movement in the late 1960s and '70s U.S. emerged, is characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description. The poets who identified with it are Samuel Beckett , Grace Paley , Raymond Carver , Robert Grenier , Aram Saroyan , and Jon Fosse .

  6. Spondee - Wikipedia

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    The Line too labours, and the Words move slow; [7] In the first line above, most of the syllables, even those in weak positions, are long and heavy: "A-jax strives some Rock's vast weight"; only the last foot, "to throw", is a true iamb. The final foot of the second line "move slow" is another spondee replacing an iamb.

  7. Dactylic hexameter - Wikipedia

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    Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The scheme of the hexameter is usually as follows (writing – for a long syllable, u for a short, and u u for a position that may be a long or two shorts):

  8. Delayed Gratification (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    The magazine is an example of the slow movement and is described as "an antidote to throwaway media". [1] The magazine features daily summaries for the quarter covered, plus long-form articles, photo features and infographics on the biggest stories of the period. [2] Each issue features cover art by a different artist.

  9. Slow movement - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Slow movement may refer to: Slow movement (music) Slow movement (culture) Bradykinesia ...