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  2. Criticism - Wikipedia

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    The two words both translate as critique, Kritik, and critica, respectively. [9] In the English language, philosopher Gianni Vattimo suggests that criticism is used more frequently to denote literary criticism or art criticism while critique refers to more general writing such as Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. [9]

  3. Varieties of criticism - Wikipedia

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    The word "radical" derives from the Latin word "radix" ("root"). Thus, radical criticism means criticism that goes to the root of things, to the roots of the problem. Revolutionary criticism is criticism that aims to overturn or overthrow an existing idea or state of affairs. Thus, an existing idea may be turned upside down.

  4. Critique - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, according to philosopher Gianni Vattimo, criticism is used more frequently to denote literary criticism or art criticism, that is, the interpretation and evaluation of literature and art; while critique may refer to more general and profound writing as Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. [6]

  5. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  6. Rhetorical criticism - Wikipedia

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    Rhetorical criticism analyzes the symbolic artifacts of discourse—the words, phrases, images, gestures, performances, texts, films, etc. that people use to communicate. . Rhetorical analysis shows how the artifacts work, how well they work, and how the artifacts, as discourse, inform and instruct, entertain and arouse, and convince and persuade the audience; as such, discourse includes the ...

  7. Why that 'Barbie' monologue provoked such an emotional ...

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    The text of the speech continues to spark commentary and make the rounds on social media. Above a picture of the speech's text, one Twitter user wrote , "The Barbie speech was a useful glimpse ...

  8. Moby Project - Wikipedia

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    The part-of-speech field is used to disambiguate 770 of the words which have differing pronunciations depending on their part-of-speech. For example, for the words spelled close, the verb has the pronunciation / ˈ k l oʊ z /, whereas the adjective is / ˈ k l oʊ s /. The parts-of-speech have been assigned the following codes:

  9. Literary criticism - Wikipedia

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    A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's goals and methods.