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literary and device
He also argues that John's " poor " Greek is a literary device since Galileans were known to have excellent Greek.
Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.
Paronomasia is a literary device which ' plays ' on the sound of each word for literary effect.
Derived from the epigramma " inscription " from ἐπιγράφειν epigraphein " to write oninscribe ", this literary device has been employed for over two millennia.
The existence of the records has never been proven ; the opening is generally considered to be a literary device.
Hamlet also contains a favourite Shakespearean device, a play within the play, a literary device or conceit in which one story is told during the action of another story.
It is frequently used as a literary device to illustrate desolation, loneliness and abandonment, with reference to its habit of living in the ruins of former cities and other areas abandoned by humans.
# There was no fish: the story is an allegory, the fish is a literary device in the story, the story is a vision or a dream etc.
Descriptive epithets are a common literary device in many parts of the world, whereas kennings in this restricted sense are a distinctive feature of Old Norse and, to a lesser extent, Old English poetry.
" The actual person from Porlock mentioned could be many people, including Wordsworth, Joseph Cottle, John Thelwall, Coleridge's wife, or merely a literary device.
This device is also used by later authors of literary epics, such as Virgil in the Aeneid, Luís de Camões in Os Lusíadas and Alexander Pope in The Rape of the Lock.
The western-eastern division was a simplification and a literary device of sixth-century historians where political realities were more complex.
In contrast with Nathan-Turner's attitude that the sonic screwdriver should not be used as a cure-all, the new production team gave it even more functionality than previous versions which has given the series some criticism as it seems to be a deus ex machina, a literary device that is generally avoided.
Both of these books are composed of individual short stories ( which range from farce or humorous anecdotes to well-crafted literary fictions ) set within a larger narrative story ( a frame story ), although the frame-tale device was not adopted by all writers.
Plato, in his dialogue The Republic Book 6 ( 509D – 513E ), has Socrates explain through the literary device of a divided line his fundamental metaphysical ideas as four separate but logically connected models of the world.
The western – eastern division was a simplification ( and a literary device ) of 6th-century historians.
" To arrive at the truth ", he wrote in the preface to Le Lys dans la vallée, " writers use whatever literary device seems capable of giving the greatest intensity of life to their characters.
Several tales in the One Thousand and One Nights use this device to foreshadow what is going to happen, as a special form of literary prolepsis.
Star Trek stories have used the Prime Directive as a literary device which allows the exploration of interactions with less advanced societies without the heroes having the overwhelming advantage of easy access to and use of their technology.
This literary criticism may focus on an author, a thematic or topical concern, genre, period, or literary device.
In the Lord of the Rings, he adopted the literary device of claiming to have translated the original Sôval Phârë speech ( or Westron as he called it ) into English.

literary and unreliable
Most biblical scholars and historians of ancient Israel today view the patriarchical narratives, including the life of Jacob, as late ( 6th and 5th centuries BCE ) literary compositions that have ideological and theological purposes but are unreliable for historical reconstruction of the presettlement period of Israel ’ s past.
Oxfordians interpret the plays and poems as autobiographical and use them to construct a hypothetical author, a method most literary specialists consider unreliable as far as attributive value.
Architectural historian Robert L. Thorp points out the scarcity of Han-era archaeological remains, and claims that often unreliable Han-era literary and artistic sources are used by historians for clues about lost Han architecture.
Historically unreliable, they offer an extended literary account describing the battle and the events leading up to it in vivid detail.
A variety of obscure literary references to same-sex love exist in ancient sources, but many of these are so subtle as to be unreliable ; another consideration is that declarations of affection for friends of the same sex were also common.
But this is the only literary evidence linking the Carpi name to that of the Dacians, and Zosimus is regarded by numerous modern scholars as an unreliable chronicler.
At one point, Nussimbaum was requested to write an official biography of Benito Mussolini .. Essad Bey's works, many of which he claimed were biographies, are discredited by historians and literary critics and rarely referenced today except to point out how unreliable they are.

literary and narrator
The field of literary analysis and criticism can discuss omniscience in the point of view of a narrator.
A narrator is, within any story ( literary work, movie, play, verbal account, etc.
In literary work, the narrator is the person who tells the story.
The theme of metafiction may be central to the work, as in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ( 1759 ) or as in Herman Melville's The Confidence Man, Chapter XIV, in which the narrator talks about the literary devices used in the other chapters.
In Stendhal ’ s time, prose novels included dialogue and omniscient narrator descriptions ; his great contribution to literary technique was describing the psychologies ( feelings, thoughts, inner monologues ) of the characters, and as a result he is considered the creator of the psychological novel.
Some writers and literary critics, make the distinction between the third-person omniscient and the universal omniscient, the difference being that in universal omniscient, the narrator reveals information that the characters do not have.
There are quite a few interpolations of different literary genres, such as poems, histories or sermons, which widen the restricted view of the first person narrator and serve as didactic fables.
The hired professional, El Gallo ( who is also the narrator ), appears and offers the fathers a menu of different varieties of " rape " – in the literary sense of an abduction or kidnapping – that he can simulate (" It Depends on What You Pay ").
The story's American narrator is struggling to find her place in the world of academia, feminist scholarship, and in the literary world as a whole.
The story is told by a first-person narrator and well-to-do author, William Ashenden, who, at the beginning of the novel is suddenly and unexpectedly contacted by Alroy Kear, a busy-body literary figure in London who has been asked by the second Mrs. Driffield to write the biography of her deceased husband, Edward Driffield.
Even as he transfers responsibility to Archimago, the narrator proceeds with his own words and verses to do an Archimagian thing, or what would nowadays be called " a poet thing " ( and " a man thing "), when he executes a literary tour de force in his account of the Morpheus passage.
His masterwork is a modernist novel Isušena kaljuža ( 1906 – 1909 ) saturated with psychosexual and spiritual conflicts of the iconoclastic first-person narrator and later described as a proto-existentialist prose, written decades before the literary movement's appearance.
The Chandos Letter, in which the narrator, Philip Lord Chandos, laments that language has begun to fail his need for self-expression, is often cited as a key text of literary modernism.

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