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And now on a lighter note,today i am mostly listening to ; 1. February 9 and by the way www. February 9 lucky prizewinners the only reason those two scoundrels got a tape was because ; 1. The only one i knew was maggie bell who was singing solo. He gave me a cheque to cash and i mistakenly went to the wrong bank! To this day i cannot remember a top headline act letting the support use there equipment they had turned up late and we had been waiting for ages "man,you guys were loud "said dave grohl..

February 6 2 questions As a little kid, did you ever see any groovy psychedelic types? What did they look like? Were mods still around? You recently asked to borrow some ketchup from Paul Weller. Was he pleasant about it or did he act like Cat Weasel? Oh calm down and pull yourself together! Doctor i keep thinking i am a dog! Please get on the couch but doctor..

I was born yesterday.. What do you call a Jamaican on holiday in Edinburgh wearing a kilt and a toy policemans helmet? They only stole a calendar for goodness sake. They got six months each! Do you get it? Part of my job was to send letters to so called celebrities asking if they could sponsor and raise the profile of the charity. In my opinion his crime is naievty, but what do i know? Edward Ball will tell you they and robert rental and thomas leer were great influences.. January 9th me naturally christ that was a weird holiday..

Could not stand him years ago. I am getting sentimental in my old age. He did all the hits and we all sang along. Now Tom is married with two charming children i must be the only gay in the crisis village. He did a fantastic version of a day in the life on piano with reverb. Awful things in the real world..

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The lowdown on that night before my late appearance at "Kim's Underground". Firstly they thought me and my accomplice Richie from Edinburgh were from California and would not let us in! Then after trying the " Hey I'm in a band from London and just played the Knitting Factory ", it looked bad. Never heard of you dudes, what are you soft rock?

We smiled and took no offense Next minute the peephole opens and the 6 locks on the door are opened and a guy with more tattoos then I've even seen says: The guy who I now realized was about 6 foot 6 inches that's about meters in American money , puts a couple of pills in our hands- "No charge guys". Thank you very much" said Daniel "And have a nice day". Well this was 4 AM in the morning, the next 5 hours are a blur!

The words coke, ketamine, transvestite and soft drinks come to mind and I think the Real Huggy Bear was in the club! Jeez I'm so jonesing for a drink right now. Oh well, I'm out shortly. June 8th Being Dan Treacy I brought some new toys For my room at the top A playfriend for my rocking horse That my parents forgot Some balloons and some string A truck train that sings These are a few of my sentimental things Happy hours Full of elation When the train Went past my station I remember some fool at a concert saying Dan he's a clown Making stupid jokes about nervous breakdowns I told him "Do I look like I'm laughing?

You stupid fucking shit! I'm scared and bewildered And I can't stand it" On stage in Frankfurt Voices in my head Dan your not worthy And all your friends have left Your dreams are dead Coloured all red Crawling in the dirt Don't go there it hurts But I started to remember How nice it feels to feel On board the good ship Lollipop It's a nice trip! And surreal I am not a number Tee! I really am the Prisoner.. It could only happen to me!

I have decided to become a Popstar! So I will go on tour with Coldplay And write them some new tracks And paint the world in dayglo As soon as I get back And all you boys and girls And aliens too I hope you like my new songs Songs about lovers Songs about hats Songs about heartache So goodbye from me I'm floating out to the sea Can you Love from Captain Dan May 31st I'm hanging in!! Did I tell you about the Mad Fucker trashing my cell!!

He smashed the TV, the officers replaced it and he smashed that TV too! In any other prison he would have gotten solitary confinement!! However, rather than doing my taxes, reading a newspaper, finishing my deck renovation, preparing dinner or praying I have spent the last 20 or so minutes spewing this nonsense onto this page. I am going to fix a drink, turn on the TV, fall asleep and finish this tomorrow. It is very difficult to speak about the suicidal death of a young man, a child, really. Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge several days ago.

He was 18 and a freshman at Rutgers University. He was, apparently, talented, friendly, kind-hearted, uncertain, confused and at the doorstep of his life. You were once at this point in your life. If you were not, you are not human. From everything I can ascertain, this young man was drawn toward a homosexual lifestyle. Label this in any manner you choose and then throw the first stone. But the events and aftermath of this sad and sordid story are beyond the pale.

His roommate filmed his gay fling and immediately posted it on the Internet. Tyler, his family and the rest of the world were now privy to his conduct. Oh how tragic; oh how ugly; oh how malicious; oh how this could have been so much better. Perhaps he would have called me in his despair and asked me for some advice. I would have been on his side. He could have slept in our home. He could have called his parents from our phone. He could be living and adding his gifts to the glorious river of humanity.

Instead, he jumped off a bridge in shame and humiliation. My heart aches for his family. A beautiful life cut so short by the harsh antics of a couple of vacuous and humorless creeps. Prison will be nothing compared to a long life filled with the deep reality of guilt. At this moment I find it very hard to forgive the two individuals incriminated in this act of darkness. Lord, give me strength. A sadder and more horrific story I have not heard in many years. This may be understandable on the heels of this nightmare, but it is also very narrow reporting.

An adolescent child perceived to be gay for whatever twisted reasons by the self-appointed truth squad in any school or neighborhood is a prime target for bullying — no doubt. But it is shortsighted and misguided to suggest that a young person in such a circumstance — isolated and fearful as he or she may be — should serve as the poster child for an effort to thwart bullying.

Bullying is old as Time. Cain and Abel come to mind. Did you note that little rhyme? In my lifetime — especially as I recall my own childhood and, years later, the lives of my own children — I have witnessed bullies wreaking merciless havoc on a wide array of innocent targets and few, if any of those targets, were gay. A few times during those years I jumped in the middle of these dark episodes of isolation and tried to make the bullies stop. But more often than not, my friends and I would stare in amazement at the brutality and pain perpetrated upon the innocents.

As an adult I have witnessed that bullying is more refined and private. Much of it happens behind closed doors in office settings and boardrooms. The power hungry abuse their authority by belittling underling employees, berating the weaker co-worker and manipulating situations to cover their own sorry asses while placing blame on the innocent.

The cut lips and scattered books may not be present but the tears, the silent cries for help and the humiliation remain. We are hollow men — and women. There is something very crooked in our collective soul that manifests itself in the act of bullying. No, we cannot stand by and allow it to continue; no, we can no longer be fearful of the threat. We must disarm the bullies whether their target is a chubby little girl, a limping immigrant or a young man desperately trying to figure himself out in a college dorm room somewhere. The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.

Although our moon often appears very bright in the night sky it projects no light of its own. It is likely that many of you had the awe-inspiring experience of standing in your yards or on your decks last week to witness a unique event — a full lunar eclipse.

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This occurs when the orbit of our little planet passes on a line directly between our neighbors — the sun and the moon. What we observed was our own shadow. In this modern age, with so many discoveries catalogued in recent centuries, we are simply educated observers of this remarkable, heavenly event. However, even though we understood what was happening we were still amazed at the magnificent drama playing out before our eyes. Having watched this minute display it is easy to appreciate the dread that a total lunar eclipse caused in the hearts of millions of our ancestors before Copernicus, Kepler and Newton presented rational, scientific explanations for these occurrences.

History records infinite myths from all cultures that attempt to bring acceptable meaning to this momentary loss of the moon. They include wolves, wives, frogs, blood, dragons, spirits of the dead and an assortment of angry and jealous gods and goddesses. I have observed that the orbit of my life tends to follow a path that obscures The Light of the World.

It is easy to appreciate the dread of being a Christian my witness has caused in others. Oh, that we would learn to allow the Light of the Son to pass through us; that we would set ourselves aside and be willing to become light. My Dad — He died at the age of 48 when I was My Sister — She died a few summers ago at the age of 67 after hiking through the Rockies with her beloved husband and some other friends.

My Niece — She died by her own hand a few years back. It continues to be sad and mysterious because she was so lovely and so loved. My Friend Rick — He died from a brain tumor at the age of 52 after teaching 2nd-graders for 30 years. If we are lucky, one or two guileless, humble and decent people will cross our paths in a lifetime.

Rick was several of those. For those minutes nothing else mattered and all made sense. Staying in love is more of a challenge. With Sarah I have accomplished both — thanks to her. The Faith of a Child — I have become an adult with doubts, questions and arguments. Doubts, questions and arguments stand directly in the path of childlike faith and never find answers. Most of them were wasted and frustrated hours — and money. When events both sad and unexpected occur many of us are good at tapping the necessary human resources to help others through the dark valleys.

We perceive their immediate needs to be more profound than our own and busy ourselves with all manner of activities to ease their pain and anguish. Once the needs of others are met - when the meals are served and the kitchen cleaned, the notes written and the casseroles returned, when the hands are held and the tears wiped away - we return to our once-familiar surroundings and wander helplessly about in the surreal wilderness of our own, unreleased anguish.

This is not a happy destination and if you have landed there I urge you to retreat from it immediately. If we do not allow ourselves adequate time to grieve we corrupt a natural human system as necessary and perfect as breathing. Where does the selfishness come in? We protect ourselves from the pain and it has a peculiar way of manifesting itself in unhealthy ways somewhere down the line.

We must ache and ache deeply. In my 56 years I have never met a person as pure, innocent and loving as my sister. Her middle name was Joy and it was perfectly chosen. I was not around in the early years as I was a very late arrival — ten years after the birth of my closest sibling.

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But I know some things. She died in the middle of the night from a freakish heart attack. We had been planning a special reunion for the following month with our Mom and her 4 children. I have never heard heartache like I did when I spoke to my Mother on the phone that day. Three good sons cannot replace the importance of one great daughter.

Oh my — the heartache, the heartache. Do things ever get better? So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Shakespeare does this by describing his feelings of eternal passion for his beloved. The mood that this poem provokes in the reader is generally one of sadness and nostalgia. This exchange provokes a feeling of bemusement in the reader. Epiphany Sometimes we face life-changing incidents in our lives, when we get a sudden realization or an insight into reality in a new way that alters our whole perception and mindset about that particular thing, idea or incident.

Following this revelation, we change our actions. This sudden realization, thought or an insight into something or someone in literary works is known as a moment of epiphany. Epiphany as an intuitive perception awakens our consciousness about something good. For example, for Hamlet this moment comes at the end when it dawns up him that his doubt about Claudius is true. In a narrative, this is the defining moment in the life of a character. Another important function of epiphany is to give a character a new vistas of perceptions about others, about the situation he is living in, or about the culture, he is going to live in.

It could also be an indication of how the story is going to conclude and provides a rationale how a plot will twist. Besides, it can reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the characters. Street lights winked down the street all the way to town. I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle.

I could even see Mrs. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. This is an example of epiphany, where entire plot reveals awakening of her consciousness. Scout felt herself grown up, and experienced at this point in her life. How like a mirror, too, her face.

Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often—he searched for a simile, found one in his work—torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. Montag, the protagonist, comes to know how dull and meaningless his life is through the conversation of a young girl, Clarisse.

This makes him realize that he needs to reform his life. He seeks solace and answers through banned books. This becomes a source of his social disobedience, which leads to another epiphany for him. And the eyes of those two Indian ponies Darken with kindness. They have come gladly out of the willows To welcome my friend and me.

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We step over the barbed wire into the pasture Where they have been grazing all day, alone. They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness That we have come. They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other. There is no loneliness like theirs. At home once more, They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the darkness.

I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms, For she has walked over to me And nuzzled my left hand. Several of his poems are merely descriptions of the speakers. In the last three lines, the poem takes an epiphanic turn. The speaker is at one with the nature and the time and it seems to him that spring will burst out of him. In this moment, he is overflowing with life. Example 4 Goodman Brown is a beautiful short story in which the protagonist takes a journey into a forest to meet the devil. He sojourns with the devil and goes through several experiences with him.

This makes Goodman Brown bitter. It is revealed to him that all his associates are bad and he reflects this bitterness onto everyone, including church authorities and his parents. She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

Scott Fitzgerald The readers of this story feel that the simple story of Gatsby and Daisy has suddenly become the story of American ambition throughout history. This is a true epiphanic moment for the reader. Parallelism Parallelism is the usage of repeating words and forms to give pattern and rhythm to a passage in literature. Parallelism often either juxtaposes contrasting images or ideas so as to show their stark difference, or joins similar concepts to show their connection. Authors often create parallelism through the use of other literary devices, such as anaphora, epistrophe, antithesis, and asyndeton.

Parallelism encompasses all these possibilities of repetition and contrast. Most English speakers thus use grammatical parallelism all the time without realizing it. Common Examples of Parallelism Parallelism is popular in proverbs and idioms, as the parallel structure makes the sayings easy to remember and more rhetorically powerful. Here are some examples of parallelism in English: What you see is what you get. A penny saved is a penny earned. Easy come, easy go.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Happiness is wanting what you get. Many different poetic traditions have examples of parallelism. Some languages from around the world use parallelism as the primary aesthetic construction for poetry, such as Nahuatl in Mexico, Navajo in the United States, Toda in India, and in parts of Indonesia, Finland, Turkey, and Mongolia. Parallelism remains a popular technique in poetry, prose, and plays. This parallelism is therefore also an example of anaphora. He ends the monologue, however, by contrasting all these paradisiacal images with the fact that England has now tarnished its beauty by setting out to conquer other nations.

The pattern set up in this paragraph is so striking that it is one of the most famous paragraphs in all of literature. Example 4 To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true. That example of parallelism creates drama in the inanimate that begin to tell their own story. This excerpt shows a brilliant usage of parallelism in just three short sentences. Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia refers to a word that phonetically mimics or resembles the sound of the thing it describes.

Common Examples of Onomatopoeia As noted above, almost all animal noises are examples of onomatopoeia. There are hundreds of other onomatopoeia examples in the English language, however.

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Here are some categories of words, along with examples of each: Machine noises—honk, beep, vroom, clang, zap, boing Animal names—cuckoo, whip-poor-will, whooping crane, chickadee Impact sounds—boom, crash, whack, thump, bang Sounds of the voice—shush, giggle, growl, whine, murmur, blurt, whisper, hiss Nature sounds—splash, drip, spray, whoosh, buzz, rustle There is a tradition in comic books of using onomatopoeias during fight scenes.

Authors sometimes use combinations of words to create an onomatopoetic effect not necessarily using words that are onomatopoetic in and of themselves. I will carry no crotchets. Do you note me? An you re us and fa us, you note us. The musician to whom he is speaking picks up on the joke and uses it back at Peter. Example 3 I was just beginning to yawn with nerves thinking he was trying to make a fool of me when I knew his tattarrattat at the door. After Joyce created this word, it is now listed as the longest palindrome in the English language. Example 4 Hear the loud alarum bells, Brazen bells!

What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune… How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Finally, the loud alarum bells, as shown in this excerpt, produced such an effect on Poe that they warranted two stanzas.

Irony As a literary device, irony is a contrast or incongruity between expectations for a situation and what is reality. This can be a difference between the surface meaning of something that is said and the underlying meaning. It can also be a difference between what might be expected to happen and what actually occurs. The definition of irony can further be divided into three main types: We describe these types in detail below. Irony is sometimes confused with events that are just unfortunate coincidences. The speaker often makes a statement that seems very direct, yet indicates that the opposite is in fact true, or what the speaker really means.

Unlike dramatic and situational irony, verbal irony is always intentional on the part of the speaker. The author Daniel Handler who writes with the pen name Lemony Snicket takes ironic similes to an extreme by qualifying them so they actually become real comparisons. This literary device originated in Greek tragedy and often leads to tragic outcomes. The audience can foresee the imminent disaster. There are three stages of dramatic irony: In the case of Othello, the installation is when Iago persuades Othello to suspect that Desdemona is having an affair with a man named Cassio.

Situational Irony Situational irony consists of a situation in which the outcome is very different from what was expected. There are contradictions and contrasts present in cases of situational irony. For example, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the citizens of the Emerald City assume that Oz is great and all-powerful, yet the man behind the curtain is revealed to be an old man with no special powers.

These gods, or the Fates, may play with the lives of humans for their own amusement. The irony lies in contrast between what the humans expect and what actually happens. Historical irony relates to real events that happened that, when seen in retrospect, had vastly different outcomes than predicted at the time. For example, Chinese alchemists discovered gunpowder when looking for a way to create immortality.

The result of their discovery was the opposite of what they were looking for. The philosopher Socrates would pretend to be ignorant about the topic under debate to draw out the nonsensical arguments of his opponent. This is particularly evident in the Platonic dialogues. This technique is an example of dramatic irony because Socrates pretended to have less information than he really did. Difference between Irony and Sarcasm Though there are many similarities between verbal irony and sarcasm, they are not equivalent. However, there are many dissenting opinions about how, exactly, they are different.

For example, the Encyclopedia Britannica simply explains that sarcasm is non-literary irony. Others have argued that while someone employing verbal irony says the opposite of what that person means, sarcasm is direct speech that is aggressive humor.

Common Examples of Irony Verbal irony: Romeo kills himself with this false knowledge. Juliet then wakes up and, finding Romeo truly dead, kills herself as well. This irony example is one of dramatic irony as the audience has more information than the characters. However, this example of irony is one of verbal irony, since Mark Antony is in fact implying that Brutus is neither ambitious nor honorable. Henry In this short story, a young, poor couple struggle with what to buy each other for Christmas. The woman cuts her hair and sells it to buy a watchband for her husband.

This is an example of situational irony, since the outcome is the opposite of what both parties expect. Desperate to be with him, the mermaid makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her voice for human legs. This is an example of dramatic irony where the audience has more information than the prince. An author may use allegory to illustrate a moral or spiritual truth, or political or historical situation. Allegories can be understood to be a type of extended metaphor.

An extended metaphor develops a certain analogy to a greater extent than a simple comparison. An allegory, meanwhile, uses a particular metaphor throughout an entire plot. Common Examples of Allegory There are many common stories that we tell which have allegorical meanings. These are especially popular in stories for children, as allegories often mean to teach some lesson or help the audience understand complex ideas and concepts. We also use real events that have happened to teach lessons. Here are some stories that have entered into public consciousness that are also allegories: From this story, we learn that the strong and steady win the race.

The story of Icarus: Icarus fashions wings for himself out of wax, but when he flies too close to the sun his wings melt. This story is a message about the dangers of reaching beyond out powers. Yertle the Turtle by Dr. This story about a turtle who yearns for too much power is actually an allegory about Adolf Hitler and the evils of totalitarianism. This trilogy of Young Adult books and now blockbuster movies is an allegory for our obsession with reality television and how it numbs us to reality.

An allegory is a very specific type of story, as it must stay true to the message for the entirety of the story. Allegories thus can be difficult to master, as they can be pedantic when done poorly. However, some works of literature that can be read allegorically gain much strength from their deeper meanings. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death. One person escapes the cave and is able to see reality for the first time. However, upon reentering the cave and trying to describe the outside world, the people still chained to the wall reject this other interpretation and vision.

Example 2 No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? Comrade Napoleon is a symbol for Stalin, while other prominent pigs in the story represent Lenin and Trotsky.

We can bide our time, we can keep our thoughts in our hearts, deploring maybe evils done by the way, but approving the high and ultimate purpose: Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends.

There need not be, there would not be, any real change in our designs, only in our means. The Lord of the Rings by J. Tolkien insisted that he did not write his Lord of the Rings trilogy as an allegory of good and evil, yet it is very easy to read the series that way. Tolkien also shows how evil can corrupt good. Saruman has been corrupted by power, and wants Gandalf to join his side.

The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it. Through the course of the story, Kino encounters greed in every direction, which forces him to flee the town with his wife and son.

Kino and his wife end up throwing the pearl back in the ocean as it has only brought them misery. This story is an example of allegory in that it shows the corrupting effect of money and power of greed. Metonymy Metonymy is a figure of speech in which something is called by a new name that is related in meaning to the original thing or concept.

However, there are many more words in common usage that are metonyms. Here are more examples of metonymy: This is a less obvious metonym because often the team name is a group of people the Cowboys, for instance , yet of course the football players who make up the Dallas Cowboys are not, in fact, cowboys. The definition of metonymy is more expansive, including concepts that are merely associated in meaning and not necessarily parts of the original thing or concept.

Ancient Greek and Latin scholars discussed the way in which metonymy changed words and meanings by providing new referents and connections between concepts. Authors have used metonymy for millennia for many different reasons. One primary reason is simply to address something in a more poetic and unique way. Sometimes metonymy is also helpful to make statements more concise. Examples of Metonymy in Literature Example 1 Their ocean-keel boarding, they drove through the deep, and Daneland left.

A sea-cloth was set, a sail with ropes, firm to the mast; the flood-timbers moaned; nor did wind over billows that wave-swimmer blow across from her course. Thus metonymy creates new connections in this example. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Hamlet by William Shakespeare Shakespeare used metonymy in many of his plays and poems. This line from Hamlet is often repeated. The rottenness is not widespread over the entire country, but instead is limited to the dealings of those in power. In this case, the character Claudius has come to power in a suspicious way, and those surrounding him feel unease at the new order.

Example 3 The party preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside—East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald This metonymy example from F. In fact, to the outside observer there is not much different between the two places, but the inhabitants of East Egg find it very important to establish the distinctions between them.

Example 4 He tried to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother. He thought it must have been at some time in the sixties, but it was impossible to be certain. In the Party histories, of course, Big Brother figured as the leader and guardian of the Revolution since its very earliest days. There was no knowing how much of this legend was true and how much invented.

Winston could not even remember at what date the Party itself had come into existence. By using the metonymy to refer to the individuals, Orwell further separates the governing class from any sense of humanity; no one in the society seems to know the name of any actual ruling member. Every story has a perspective, though there can be more than one type of point of view in a work of literature.

However, there are many variants on these two types of point of view, as well as other less common narrative points of view. Point of View vs. Narrator Point of view is very closely linked with the concept of a narrator. The narrator of a story can be a participant in the story, meaning this character is a part of the plot, or a non-participant. The point of view in a story refers to the position of the narrator in relation to the story. For example, if the narrator is a participant in the story, it is more likely that the point of view would be first person, as the narrator is witnessing and interacting with the events and other characters firsthand.

If the narrator is a non-participant, it is more likely that the point of view would be in third person, as the narrator is at a remove from the events. These are general guidelines, of course, and there are many exceptions to these rules. Let us look more in depth at the multiple options for narrative point of view. The choice to write from an unreliable first person point of view gives the reader a chance to figure out what is reality and what is a creation on the part of the narrator.

When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.

This implies a group of people narrating the story at once. While it is unusual now, most Greek tragedies contained a chorus that narrated the events of the play together. For example, the recent novel The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka is about a group of Japanese women who come to the United States as mail-order brides: Most of us on the boat were accomplished, and were sure we would make good wives. We knew how to cook and sew.

We knew how to serve tea and arrange flowers and sit quietly on our flat wide feet for hours, saying absolutely nothing of substance at all. No standardized success for you. There are two main possibilities for the third person point of view: In this way, it is similar to the first person singular point of view, since the focus stays tightly on one character. Third person omniscient point of view allows the author to delve into the thoughts of any character, making the narrator seem godlike.

This was a popular point of view in 19th century novels. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Alternating Person Some novels combine two or more of the above types of point of view. For example, some novels alternate between a first person singular point of view in some chapters and the third person point of view in other chapters.

Common Examples of Point of View All of us experience life through a first person singular point of view. When we tell stories from our own lives, most of these stories are thus from that perspective. However, we also sometimes tell stories in the first person plural if a pair or group of people is involved throughout the entire story. We also tell many stories from the third person point of view when talking about events at which we were not present.

Here are some examples: We went to the Statue of Liberty, we walked around Central Park, and we ate fantastic food. Therefore, point of view has a great amount of significance in every piece of literature. The relative popularities of different types of point of view have changed over the centuries of novel writing. For example, epistolary novels were once quite common but have largely fallen out of favor. First person point is view, meanwhile, is quite common now whereas it was hardly used at all before the 20th century. Examples of Point of View in Literature Example 1: First Person Singular There must have been about two minutes during which I assumed that I was killed.

And that too was interesting—I mean it is interesting to know what your thoughts would be at such a time. My first thought, conventionally enough, was for my wife. My second was a violent resentment at having to leave this world which, when all is said and done, suits me so well. I had time to feel this very vividly. Here Orwell relates the experience of getting shot and the thoughts that passed through his mind directly thereafter. You wonder if Amanda will ever explain her desertion. She was a model and she thought you were rich.

You never spotted she was an airhead. So what does that make you? This point of view example creates a sense of intimacy between the narrator and the reader, implicating the reader in the events of the plot and relating the powerlessness the narrator has to forestall his own self-destruction. Third Person The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex.

Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. Thematic Statement The definition of theme can be broken into two categories: The thematic concept refers to what a reader understands the work to be about, while the thematic statement refers to what the work says about that subject in question.

The thematic statement often comments on the way the human condition affects or is affected by the abstract concept of the theme. The thematic statement could be something about the irrationality of human decision-making in times of both war and peace, and the search for the meaning of life in the face of this irrationality. Common Examples of Theme Many politicians craft a message about their campaign around a central theme.

Brands also sometimes relate their advertising campaigns around a theme. De Beers effectively created the tradition of the diamond engagement ring. In both of these cases, the thematic concepts were so strong and convincing that they overcame oppositional arguments. In the case of De Beers, men were suddenly expected to spend two months of their salary on a diamond ring, which until that time would have been considered ludicrous. Themes are generally universal in nature, and relate to the condition of being human.

Thus the theme in a work of literature crosses boundaries and makes a story meaningful to people to any culture or age. While readers may not understand all the references and language in a book from a different time period or culture, the theme of the novel is what makes it comprehensible. Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. Ironically, Iago is the one who creates this jealousy and feeds it.

Example 2 In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. Orwell had been a firsthand witness to the propaganda put out during wartime in the s and s, and saw how officials in different countries manipulated stories to keep themselves in power and prove their legitimacy.

Example 3 The gypsy was inclined to stay in the town. He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. However, many characters actually seek solitude in life and find that the state of being alive is inseparable from a state of solitude. The characters try to connect over love, family, and duty, yet find themselves always and inextricably alone. Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

As he saw his friends and peers being labeled as communists and blacklisted, Miller turned to the Salem witch-hunt as a model to artistically address the situation. When asked why, he gives an impassioned speech about the importance of reputation, considering it even more important than life itself. Example 5 Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. Even more important than this, though, is the theme of love.

This love, in J. And, indeed, Lord Voldemort is evil precisely because he is both unable to feel love and unable to grasp its significance. In this quote from the final installment of the series, Dumbledore tells Harry that living without love is the greatest hardship of all. Fallacy Fallacies are incorrect reasoning based on invalid inferences, or false arguments with inaccurate facts. We can define fallacy as an erroneous reasoning based on unsound arguments.

Simply, fallacy is making an argument by employing invalid or poor reasoning, which ostensibly looks correct, but in it is not so. Several examples of such fallacies could be found in everyday life. Types of Fallacies and Examples As fallacy is a common term used in rhetoric, it is used in everyday discourse so much abundantly that sometimes it loses its worth.

However, in literature it is very important in that it reveals the real intention of the character, who uses one or the other type of fallacy. It shows integrity of the character and determines his worth in the literary piece. This type of error is found when the arguer attempts to associate their argument with authority or power, so that their argument holds trustworthiness.

Do you think you know more about yoga then the Buddha? How can you say that comic relief is not important? This type of fallacy is based on the general appeal of the argument. This appeal takes place when someone asserts that a conviction or thought is correct or acceptable mainly because generally people accept it as correct. This fallacy comes into use when an individual claims that characteristics of one thing must inherently be qualities of something else by association alone.

I have a dog that has four legs, so the dog is a cat. Also known as an argumentum ad hominem, which means an argument against an individual, this type of fallacy is a common practice in everyday debates and it alludes to a person who attempts to substitute a personal insult for an argument. This type of fallacy is when the final conclusion of a controversy or contention is based on the statement of the inquiry itself.

Circulus in Probando is the alternate term used to allude to this error. It is when an argument is based on an element inside the argument itself, rather than an outside one. Also known as Cum Hoc Egro Propter Hoc, this fallacy takes place when an individual connects two different occasions that take place consecutively and then accepts that one made the other.

This is a fallacy wherein an individual offers attestation for a conclusion which does not follow from any suggestions. His grandparents lived in Germany during the s, so they were Nazis. This fallacy assumes that an extraordinary minor movement will necessarily prompt frequently ludicrous and great conclusions. So, in simpler terms, a slippery slope means that if one action or step is followed, it will invariably result in the creation of more similar actions and steps, and the process will result in more and more undesirable and negative incidents.

In short, a chain reaction in terms of cause and effect is considered a slippery slope. A syllogism fallacy is when deductive reasoning based on two or more propositions is used to arrive at an incorrect conclusion. The object can be a real or fictional person, event, quote, or other work of artistic expression.

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The scandal at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D. Since the event, the suffix —gate has been added to many dozens of names to refer to scandals. Heller describes the following problematic situation with no solution: However, if he applies to be discharged this proves he is not crazy.



He was said to be invulnerable except for at his heel. Thus, when Paris shot Achilles in his heel the wound proved mortal. Therefore, allusions can be a test of a sort of cultural literacy. It is thus also much more difficult for modern readers to understand all of the allusions in older works of literature, or literature from other cultures. Allusions use the original reference as a point of departure, but they can also change the referent and add meaning retroactively.

Allusions create intertextuality in this way. It is important to note, though, that allusions can only go in one direction. But tell me; in the time of your sweet sighs, By what, and how Love granted, that ye knew Your yet uncertain wishes? Yet so eagerly If thou art bent to know the primal root, From whence our love gat being, I will do As one, who weeps and tells his tale. Alone we were, and no Suspicion near us. But at one point Alone we fell.

In its leaves that day We read no more. In this passage, she tells Dante that she and Paolo fell in love over the story of Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table, whose romance with Guinevere was celebrated. Though this is clearly an allusion to the historical figure, it is also an interesting case of self-reference, as Shakespeare published his play Julius Caesar a year or two before Hamlet.

The plot of Hamlet alludes to the historical figure Amleth. Example 3 The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere. In Greek mythology, Mt. Olympus was where the pantheon of gods lived. By comparing the outside world to Mt. Olympus Thoreau is saying that nature holds all the wondrousness of the home of the gods. Example 4 The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest. Without understanding this allusion, the line would be confusing as the reader would be wondering what type of crash affected the Cunninghams so extremely.

Colloquialisms are generally geographic in nature, in that a colloquial expression often belongs to a regional or local dialect. They can be words, phrases, or aphorisms see below for examples. Native speakers of a language understand and use colloquialisms without realizing it, while non-native speakers may find colloquial expressions hard to translate.