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    Breathless Themes

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    Theme is a very important part in the book because it’s a central idea of the story. In the other words, the moral or lesson of the story.In the novel Breathless, many themes were shown but there were two that stood out to me the most. These two themes I found are very important because it was shown throughout the book. There were some themes I found important but it was shown in a chapter and was never shown a again so I decided not to use them because they aren’t as strong as the two I am going

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    Allen Ginsberg's Song

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    While there is always some sort of literary device in every poem, some poems take advantage of them more than others to get their theme across. Along with this, poems may have a solitary theme or have several themes. “Song” by Allen Ginsberg is definitely the latter of both as it uses numerous literary devices in obvious and deep ways to tie back into its main themes. This is so skillfully done throughout the work that one would likely have to write a book in order to analyze the themes and devices

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    Poetry, an unique type of writing, is known as abstract language. It allows different readers to analyze the writing in different ways. There are two ways that a poem can be analyzed, which is by either to look for a deeper meaning or by finding poetry devices used. “I Look to You” and “Big Rock Candy Mountain” both contain prominent examples of poetry devices and have a connotative meaning. Robert S. Kelly’s poem “I Look to You” contains refrain. The repetition on a word or phrase is known as

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    Theme Of Thank You Ma Am

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    My theme is be thankful for what you have or who you are. In the books Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting and Thank you Ma’am by Langston Hughes, I can compare them to my theme. The main character of Fly Away is Andrew, he lives in an airport. The main character in Thank you Ma’am is Mrs. Jones she, struggles with people calling her names. Anyway let’s get into the story. In Fly Away Home Andrew lives in an airport and he is thankful for the little money his dad earns. His dad works at a place

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    The Highwayman The poem “The highwayman” by Alfred Noyes is about love and death. A highwayman, which is a robber falls in love with the landlord's daughter. A creepy man reports the highwayman to the redcoats because he is in love with her. The red coats take the landlord's daughter and they use her as bait to get the highwayman. The highwayman comes and tries to save the landlord's daughter, but he gets killed. In the highwayman the poem is a narrative poem and is traditional. For example, the

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    Boland Metaphors

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    “Boland makes effective use of symbols and metaphors to explore personal experiences and deliver penetrating truths about society.” Boland’s poetry explores her personal experiences as a mother and a woman in the Ireland of the 70s, a period of great political instability. Rich metaphors amplify these themes and aid us, as readers, in accessing them and symbols reveal how timeless they are. This universal relevance is made clear as Boland explores topical political and social questions, which often

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    Fantasy is a non realistic story that transcend the bound reality, ultimately creating a fictional story. Elements such as the plot, setting, characters, theme need to be altered so the the story can be a fantasy. The plot of the story usually revolves around a protagonist that needs to finish its quest. Setting tend to be a landscape or creature cannot exist in the real world, as well for characters that do not follow law of nature and do as they feel. In the “most Dangerous games” by Richard Connell

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    Authors use themes to convey how they feel about a certain topic or idea. Even though not considered important or popular, the themes of responsibility and community actually have a wider spread once one begins to look for them. These themes can be seen in works such as “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. These themes are common when analyzing how humans interact with one another, and how they react when they are placed in a position of responsibility. Conditions

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    Many people think of books as simply words chosen to conceive a wonderfully entertaining story, put on pages and bound together; this assertion could not be further from the truth. The most prolific writers do indeed formulate amazing worlds with intriguing worlds and wonderful characters coming together form phenomenal stories, but they usually contain much deeper commentary on a number of issues. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s psychological thriller Crime and Punishment and Aldous Huxley’s dystopian fiction

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    The poem Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy talks about love in a negative way. The poem has a depressed tone to it; In the poem, the speaker explains how their lover is fake and the love is not really there. The speaker goes on about the signs of their lover being fake; then, they explain love being deceiving. In fact, the theme of the poem is that love is deceiving. The purpose of the poem is to expressed feeling to a ending love. The first stanza of the poem describes the setting and puts the reader

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