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    I remember some of the first books I read as a child, before being introduced to the massive variety of literature that can be found everywhere. I remember focusing on the images and drawings that the illustrators made which brought these stories to life. I remember most significantly the author, Kevin Henkes, and his different interpretations on dealing with solitude as a child. I remember relating to the mice which he created within the stories. I remember imagining myself within the books, hoping

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    World Literature Essay A young boy who tries to survive the Holocaust, a king who sleeps with his mother and kills his father, and a brave man who is unable to reveal his love for a women, these are the stories that three different books tell, written by authors coming from all over Europe. These works of literature namely are "Night", "Oedipus the King" and "Cyrano de Bergerac". All three of these stories appear to be rather dissimilar since they are written and take place during time periods

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    Literature Exposes the Reader's Character of Acceptance To what extent does literature reveal our nature of acceptance? I always believed that our nature of acceptance in literature is revealed to a great extent. Acceptance is a person's consent to the writer's experience, credibility, and facts. I trust what the author writes since novels are suppose to be reflective of the human condition. Why can't we just accept what we read? Why should we have to question everything? I often do what I

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    appreciating, and last but not least is the result of appreciation. Based on Senior High Schooll Curriculum (KTSP) , it is clear that literary appreciation is a program which is important to be learned. Oemarjati, (1992), states that the teaching of literature is essential in supporting the effective mission of enriching the students’ experience and makes them more responsive toward the surrounding events. The main goal is

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    Metafiction Metafiction has been celebrated as a defining feature of contemporary literature. The difference, however, remains in the orientations that delineate the modern and postmodern execution of it. Metafiction does not only expose the process of creativity, but it also reflects the dilemma surrounding its nature. It is a model for a self-referential critical assessment and sometimes a metaphor that encompasses the novel in which it is featured as well as the novel as a genre. All of them overlap

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    but frequent pieces of dialogue that are used to describe certain subjects and concepts have a high probability of being cataloged for future reference. The memorized bits and pieces are then repeated, learned, and accepted. As such, the realms of literature are definitively seen as the culmination of language within a particular group or culture. While this communication between individuals seems like a perfect solution for a majority of the population, that is not always the case. Sometimes, the delivery

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    Why is - or isn’t - reading & writing about literature important for people to become more thoughtful, more insightful about themselves, more compassionate towards others and, in general, larger, better people? Reading is a very important way of communicating; developing imagination, discovering new things, feelings and also reaching wanted education. Reading literature especially, is very important for the foundation of life. In Literature we can see and imagine the whole world in a different

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    How To Read Literature

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    that I at least got something out of my English B class. I kinda did, between all the extra hours of homework and the texting in class I should've learned something. Well I did learn that I actually like about three of the stories in this so called literature book, no more or no less just three stories and that's it. The three stories that I found out that I actually like are The Lady of SHALOTT by: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ah, Are You Diggin on My grave by: Thomas Hardy and The Rocking-Horse

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    writers. Indonesian writers, particularly in the Engineering discipline, hardly utilise might for hedging. Might is assumed to signal greater degrees of uncertainty than may to express probability (Hyland 1998b: 118). Hence, a possible cause for the low number of might in the research articles is that the writers are reluctant to use device which greatly weakens their stance. 4.2.3. Verbs The use of hedges in the form of verbs is less consistent than the modal verbs across the subcorpora. While

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    graphic novels literature? Yes, but not all them can be classified as literature. Some people think that graphic novels are literature, while others disagree. A few teachers even prefer to use graphic novels as their main source. On the other hand, other teachers consider graphic novels as lacking knowledge. Thus, the answer to this question varies from person to person depending on how they see things. Not all graphic novels are literature, but they can be. What is literature? Literature is the way

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