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In exposition, as in other rhetorical modes, details must be selected and ordered according to the writer's sense of their importance and interest. Although the expository writer isn't primarily taking a stand on an issue, they can't—and shouldn't try to—keep their opinions completely hidden. [ 18 ]
Title page of Aphra Behn's early epistolary novel, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684). There are two theories on the genesis of the epistolary novel: The first claims that the genre originated from novels with inserted letters, in which the portion containing the third-person narrative in between the letters was gradually reduced. [5]
Prometheus (1774) was originally planned as a drama but never completed by Goethe, though the poem is inspired by it. Prometheus is the creative and rebellious spirit rejected by God and who angrily defies him and asserts himself. Ganymede, by direct contrast, is the boyish self who is both adored and seduced by God. As a high Romantic poet and ...
Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This information can be about the setting , characters' backstories , prior plot events, historical context, etc. [ 1 ] In literature, exposition appears in the form of expository writing embedded within the narrative.
Prometheus has its own implementation of time series database where it stores the recent data (1-3 hours of data by default) in a combination of memory [26] and mmap-ed files from disk [27], and persists the older data in the form of blocks [28] with an inverted index. Inverted index is well suited for Prometheus data format and querying ...
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein , a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Prometheus Bound (Ancient Greek: Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης, romanized: Promētheús Desmṓtēs) is an ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus and thought to have been composed sometime between 479 BC and the terminus ante quem of 424 BC.
Prometheus cryptically tells them that he knows of a potential marriage that would lead to Zeus' downfall. Oceanus later arrives to commiserate with Prometheus, as well; he urges the Titan to make peace with Zeus, and departs. Prometheus is then visited by Io, a maiden pursued by a lustful Zeus.