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... Duke is speaking to an envoy of a Count , whose daugh- ter the Duke intends to marry . 4. Several reactions of the envoy to the Duke's statements are indicated . 5. The poem is in iambic pentameter couplets . ( See Prosody and Couplet ...
... Duke is speaking to an envoy of a Count , whose daugh- ter the Duke intends to marry . 4. Several reactions of the envoy to the Duke's statements are indicated . 5. The poem is in iambic pentameter couplets . ( See Prosody and Couplet ...
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... Duke's domestic life that is not necessarily expressed or implied in the poem itself . You might commit this fault more or less unconsciously in order to illustrate , for instance , that the Duke could not abide his last Duchess . For ...
... Duke's domestic life that is not necessarily expressed or implied in the poem itself . You might commit this fault more or less unconsciously in order to illustrate , for instance , that the Duke could not abide his last Duchess . For ...
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... Duke's complaint about the Duchess . Probably it would be more natural to express this idea by saying , “ It was not my presence only . . . . ” The Duke , however , wishes to use the connotations of the word husband at this point in the ...
... Duke's complaint about the Duchess . Probably it would be more natural to express this idea by saying , “ It was not my presence only . . . . ” The Duke , however , wishes to use the connotations of the word husband at this point in the ...
Contents
Choosing a literary topic | 27 |
Planning for literary relevance | 39 |
Beginning middle and end | 53 |
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analysis Aristotle aspect attitude audience Chapter character Charles Lamb comedy comma composition contrast critical definition devices didacticism drama Duke E. B. White effect elements Émile Zola emphasis epic essay example explain expression facts feel fiction free verse genre Glossary human humor I. A. Richards illustrate important instance instructor John Crowe Ransom Joseph Wood Krutch kind King Claudius language lines literary literature lyric meaning mind Miss Brill narrator nature novel observe paper paragraph paraphrase passage phrase play pleasure plot poem poet poetry point of view précis problems prose Prosody purpose question quotation marks reader reading assignment rhyme romanticism scene sentence Shakespeare short story simply sonnet specific stanza statement structure student style subject matter symbols T. S. Eliot term theme things thought tion topic assertion tragedy truth unity verse words writing