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In order to appear superior, a miller brags to the king and people of his kingdom by claiming his daughter can spin straw into gold. [note 1] The king calls for the girl, locks her up in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he will have her killed.
In its original sense, a shaggy-dog story or yarn is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax. In other words, it is a long story that is intended to be amusing and that has an intentionally silly or meaningless ending.
"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. [citation needed] The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy ...
Spinner's weasel (left) and spinning wheel (right) Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn-measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with gears attached to a pointer on a marked face (which resembles a clock) and an internal mechanism that makes a "pop" sound after the desired length of yarn is measured (usually a skein). The ...
Ann Taylor (1782–1866) and Jane Taylor (1783–1824) – Rhymes for the Nursery, Original Poems for Infant Minds, Little Ann and Other Poems; Dorota Terakowska (1938–2004) – Córka czarownicy; K. Thayat (1927–2011) – Mela, Naivedyam; Colin Thiele (1920–2006) – Storm Boy, Blue Fin, Sun on the Stubble; Scarlett Thomas (born 1972 ...
A quatrain is any four-line stanza or poem. There are 15 possible rhyme sequences for a four-line poem; common rhyme schemes for these include AAAA, AABB, ABAB, ABBA, and ABCB. [citation needed] "The Raven" stanza: ABCBBB, or AA,B,CC,CB,B,B when accounting for internal rhyme, as used by Edgar Allan Poe in his poem "The Raven" Rhyme royal: ABABBCC
When you use your oven to cook (as opposed to a stovetop, grill, or smoker, for example), heat is coming from the top and the bottom. Chef Button says, the main difference is with the temperature ...
Chatterjee was born in Delhi and has lived in India, Japan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Egypt, and Morocco, before coming to Britain in 1972.She attended seven schools and five universities, receiving a BA from the American University in Cairo, Egypt, MA degrees in English and American Literature from the University of Kent at Canterbury and in Arts Psychotherapy Practice from Leeds Beckett ...