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    authors are ever identical, they craft their stories precisely while mixing in their own style to differentiate them from the others and allow them to stand out. Many respected authors use literary devices to make the work their own. For instance, well renown author Edgar Allan Poe has a style that is famous for its unusual usage of the many literary devices to contribute to his Gothic writings. Poe's style is bound together with what we see in most of his work such as using diction to create allegories

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    Mark Literary Style

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    All author’s contain their own unique literary styles and the gospel authors are no exception. For example, the greek used by Mark’s author is unpolished which in turn leads to the authors of Matthew and Luke refining the material they borrow from Mark. Mark’s author also makes use of catchwords to link stories in his gospel. However, Mark’s most noticeable literary feature is also the most infuriating and confusing for the orderly. While on the surface Peter's denial and Jesus' act of concealing

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    Discuss the content, the form and the literary style of wisdom as presented in Proverbs 11 Wisdom literature within the Old Testament consists of a broad collection of books that reflect on Israel’s religious faith. Within the Catholic designation, seven books that of Proverbs, Job, Psalms, Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth) Song of Songs, Sirach and Wisdom are proffered. These books differ in both style and subject matter, nonetheless they share common characteristics which distinguish them from other biblical

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    the father of American Literature, is known for his stories like “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “Rip Van Winkle,” “The Devil and Tom Walker” and many more. In such famous works, Irving also shows many special literary devices, like using legends and myths within the story. Other distinct styles are using the appearances of the people of the story or even the setting. Irving would use special traits of characters and setting to describe or progress the plot of the story. In stories like “The Legend

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    principles of learning. Learning Styles A student’s individual learning style is their normal reaction to information or experiences. For example, Keefe (1979) defines learning styles as the "composite of characteristic cognitive, affective, and physiological factors that serve as relatively stable indicators of how a learner perceives, interacts with, and responds to the learning environment.", or more succinctly, Stewart and Felicetti (1992) define learning styles as those "educational conditions

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    first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the memoir, Life on the Mississippi and the novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's style influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and impudently humorous changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound peculiarly American, using local

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    or style, as a combination of their diction and syntax. However, there are many more elements of style than just diction and syntax. An author's style is determined by their use of characterization, symbolism, allusions, mood, conflict, and many other elements. Edgar Allen Poe, father of the detective or murder-mystery genre, is often regarded as having a very unique style. His gothic, usually morbid style was one of the first of its kind. Though he utilized many literary devices, Poe's style is

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    your works; my soul knows it very well.” There are many different literary ways that God used to explain His Word to us. We all learn differently and understand things in different ways and He knows that. He has created styles that are better at conveying messages in different ways. There are different literary styles between different books of the Bible and sometimes within the same book. Parables are known as a unique style of telling stories, which were used to illustrate a single point.

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    who does not wish to be a subject of her world can instead create their own (Cavendish 163), but how does one do this? In the story, the Empress asserts that in order to create a world one must frame it, strengthen it, and beautify it (126). The literary world that she creates in The Blazing World itself follows this system as her use of structured lists, her descriptions of the strength of her society and her use of poetic techniques in prose each support these ideas. This principal of world creation

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    Literary Style of the Writer Edgar Allan Poe is one of the outstanding figures in American and world literature with all his works ranging from short stories to poems, and he is one of the leading names of American Romantic Movement within literature. He is mostly known with his fictional stories which include Gothic elements; therefore, such dark elements as death, diseases or loss of loved ones are common, many of which could be also observed the life of Poe himself. With his dark style of writing

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