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    Plot twist whether terrifying, exciting or depressing many times end up the most integral part of a story. The big secret that readers are kept away from that helps them connect the dots. Author Jay Bonansinga analyzes the plot twist in his article “And then…Pull in your Readers with an Irresistible Plot Twist”.Bonansinga notes, “It usually happens on a wave of dramatic music, quivering strings and dronning bassoons, and it’s often accompanied by a tightening of the belly, an audible exhalation from

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    "The beginning is simple to mark". This is the opening sentence of Ian McEwan's novel "Enduring Love", and in this first sentence, the reader is unwittingly drawn into the novel. An introduction like this poses the question, the beginning of what? Gaining the readers curiosity and forcing them to read on. The very word "beginning" allows us an insight into the importance of this event, for the narrator must have analysed it many a time in order to find the moment in which it all began, and so

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    emotional and physical baggage of wartime are brought to light. The most obvious and prominent feature of O’Brien’s writing is a repetition of detail. O’brien also passively analyzes the effects of wartime on the underdeveloped psyche by giving the reader close up insight into common tribulations of war, but not in a necessarily expositorial sense.. He takes us into the minds of mere kids as they cope with the unbelievable and under-talked-about effects or rationalizing

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    Compare how authors, Tim Winton and Bernhard Schlink, explore the journey from youth to adulthood and the long-term consequences in their novels, The Reader and Breath through the use of literary techniques. Tim Winton and Bernhard Schlink both use literary techniques to explore the journey from youth to adulthood in their novels, The Reader and Breath. The use of various literary techniques by each author compares and contrasts the ways in which each authors explores the journey from adolescence

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    “Journal To [Self]: Dear Reader, Follow The North Star”, to make sure I understood exactly what he was trying to get across. With his talk of “humans mechanized by societal structures [disappearing] into the ground…” I was a bit lost. The meaning of the passage as well as a glimpse of what the memoir was about became clear when he used the subway, with the given name the over ground railroad, as a metaphor for the underground railroad. The intention is to inform the reader to free themselves from

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    method. The content has different aspects for summarising any form of the content by counting. This analysis helps a more neutral evolution than comparing content based on the impressions of a reader. For example, an impressionistic summery of a magazine review it is an evaluation. The content that is analysed can be in any form to begin with, but has often converted into written words before it is analysed. The original source can be printed

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    Reader Response Criticism to God's Determinations   For the reader demanding either rational sense or aesthetic pleasure from poetry, reading the preface to Edward Taylor's "God's Determinations" is humbling in ways unintended by the 17th century Puritan minister and poet. "Rationality" per se seems rejected at the start, where we are asked first to comprehend "Infinity," and then to envision it (everything) "beholding" "all things"(also everything). "Things" get no clearer as we progress

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    method. The content has different aspects for summarising any form of the content by counting. This analysis helps a more neutral evolution than comparing content based on the impressions of a reader. For example, an impressionistic summery of a magazine review it is an evaluation. The content that is analysed can be in any form to begin with, but has often converted into written words before it is analysed. The original source can be printed

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    How does the writer make the reader feel pity for Veronica? Basically, the writer chooses Veronica’s friend to be the narrator- Okeke. Instead of making Veronica the narrator but the reason is that because the writer could use the narrator to make us feel pity for Veronica more easily and gives the reader more sensational feeling. She does not seem to care that there is no hope for a better life or the future. This is perhaps the main reason why we as readers feel more sympathy towards Veronica

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    Lastly the author brings up many problems in the book that are solved in some insightful ways that leave a strong impact on the reader. Three favorite passages from the book? “We left our tire and wheel near the texas border. Somehow it had become more square than round” (Yates 130). -Some racers such as J.J and Victor were very laid back and were in this for only the fun. This

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