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  2. Binary opposition - Wikipedia

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    A binary opposition (also binary system) is a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning. Binary opposition is the system of language and/or thought by which two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. [ 1 ]

  3. Deconstruction - Wikipedia

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    For example, Duncan Kennedy, in explicit reference to semiotics and deconstruction procedures, maintains that various legal doctrines are constructed around the binary pairs of opposed concepts, each of which has a claim upon intuitive and formal forms of reasoning that must be made explicit in their meaning and relative value, and criticized ...

  4. Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose - Wikipedia

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    In that poem, the first "Rose" is the name of a person. Stein later used variations on the sentence in other writings, and the shortened form " A rose is a rose is a rose " is among her most famous quotations, often interpreted as meaning [ 1 ] "things are what they are", a statement of the law of identity , "A is A."

  5. Post-structuralism - Wikipedia

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    Although post-structuralists all present different critiques of structuralism, common themes among them include the rejection of the self-sufficiency of structuralism, as well as an interrogation of the binary oppositions that constitute its structures. Accordingly, post-structuralism discards the idea of interpreting media (or the world ...

  6. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Rondel (or roundel): a poem of 11 to 14 lines consisting of 2 rhymes and the repetition of the first 2 lines in the middle of the poem and at its end. Sonnet: a poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes; in English, they typically have 10 syllables per line. Caudate sonnet; Crown of sonnets (aka sonnet redoublé) Curtal sonnet

  7. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of a word and of ... is the longest common example of a word formed by agglutinative construction.

  8. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    The poem does not have a deep, hidden, symbolic meaning. Rather, it is simply pleasurable to read, say, and hear. Critical terminology becomes useful when one attempts to account for why the language is pleasurable, and how Byron achieved this effect. The lines are not simply rhythmic: the rhythm is regular within a line, and is the same for ...

  9. Poetics (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    Preliminary discourse on tragedy, epic poetry, and comedy, as the chief forms of imitative poetry. Definition of a tragedy, and the rules for its construction. Definition and analysis into qualitative parts. Rules for the construction of a tragedy: Tragic pleasure, or catharsis experienced by fear and pity should be produced in the spectator ...