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  2. Tone (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Authors create tone through the use of various other literary elements, such as diction or word choice; syntax, the grammatical arrangement of words in a text for effect; imagery, or vivid appeals to the senses; details, facts that are included or omitted; and figurative language, the comparison of seemingly unrelated things for sub-textual ...

  3. apk (file format) - Wikipedia

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    To make an APK file, a program for Android is first compiled using a tool such as Android Studio [3] or Visual Studio and then all of its parts are packaged into one container file. An APK file contains all of a program's code (such as .dex files), resources, assets, certificates, and manifest file. As is the case with many file formats, APK ...

  4. Styles and themes of Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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    Irony is one of Austen's most characteristic and most discussed literary techniques. [10] She contrasts the plain meaning of a statement with the comic, undermining the meaning of the original to create ironic disjunctions. In her juvenile works, she relies upon satire, parody and irony based on incongruity.

  5. Belles-lettres - Wikipedia

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    Literally, belles-lettres is a French phrase meaning 'beautiful' or 'fine' writing. In this sense, therefore, it includes all literary works—especially fiction, poetry, drama, or essays—valued for their aesthetic qualities and originality of style and tone. The term thus can be used to refer to literature generally.

  6. Touchstone (metaphor) - Wikipedia

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    An example in literature is the character of Touchstone in Shakespeare's As You Like It, described as "a wise fool who acts as a kind of guide or point of reference throughout the play, putting everyone, including himself, to the comic test".

  7. Confessional writing - Wikipedia

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    Confessional writing features and styles have translated into and influenced other non-literary forms: especially in contemporary art through the use of prominent confessional features such as the divulsion of personal secrets and the presentation of intimate and sometimes scandalous details of the artist's private lives.

  8. ABC of Reading - Wikipedia

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    "Literature is language charged with meaning: Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost degree" - to be achieved by three main ways: phanopoeia – throwing the object (fixed or moving) on to the visual imagination. melopoeia – inducing emotional correlations by sound and rhythm of the speech.

  9. Lyricism - Wikipedia

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