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The Silver Books of English Sonnets (1927), editor; The Green Man (1928) It's a Fine World (1930) Rain, Rain, go to Spain (1931) Great Love Stories of All Nations (1932), editor "Y.Y." An Anthology of Essays (1933) The Cockleshell (1933) Both Sides of the Road (1934) I Tremble to Think (1936) In Defence of Pink (1937) Searchlights and ...
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 ...
Designated for motivated students with a command of standard English, an interest in exploring and analyzing challenging classical and contemporary literature, and a desire to analyze and interpret dominant literary genres and themes, it is often offered to high school seniors and the other AP English course, AP English Language and Composition, to juniors.
The boy turns off the water, but a pink stain is left along the side of the tub. The Cat uses their mother's dress to clean it, staining the dress pink. The Cat tries new methods to clean the pink spot, wiping it onto a wall, a shoe, a rug, and a bed. To get help, Cat lifts his hat and a smaller version of himself, Little Cat A, comes out.
The focus of their attention was on the analysis of the features that make up literary texts in opposition to the former traditional study of literature which focussed on studying literature in conjunction with other disciplines such as history, biography, sociology and psychology (Makaryk 2000, p. 53). It insisted that literary scholars should ...
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]
Rudy Ray Moore, known as "Dolemite", is well known for having used the term in his comedic performances.While signifyin(g) is the term coined by Henry Louis Gates Jr. to represent a black vernacular, the idea stems from the thoughts of Ferdinand De Saussure and the process of signifying—"the association between words and the ideas they indicate."
The novel starts with Melanie stealing her mother's wedding dress and venturing out in the night into her family's property. However, on her way home, she realises she forgot the door key and is forced to climb up a tree to get back into her room, destroying the dress in the process.