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  2. Persuasion (novel) - Wikipedia

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    In his essay "Persuasion: forms of estrangement", A Walton Litz summarises the issues critics have raised with Persuasion as a novel: [9] Persuasion has received highly intelligent criticism in recent years, after a long period of comparative neglect, and the lines of investigation have followed Virginia Woolf's suggestive comments. Critics ...

  3. Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion) - Wikipedia

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    Without much thought, he is sociable with both Musgrove sisters, Henrietta and Louisa, sisters to Mary's husband Charles. Wentworth is therefore seeing Anne often as part of the Uppercross family circle. Henrietta re-connects with her fiancé, Charles Hayter. Wentworth talks about a firm mind, influencing Louisa to be more demanding than usual.

  4. Louisa Hall - Wikipedia

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    Hall's first novel, The Carriage House, was published in 2013 by Scribner in the United States and by Viking in the UK. It garnered comparisons to John Cheever and Richard Yates. The novel is an adaptation of Jane Austen's 1818 novel Persuasion. However, the novel does not borrow its entire structure from Austen, and it is set outside ...

  5. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Expository writing is a type of writing where the purpose is to explain or inform the audience about a topic. [13] It is considered one of the four most common rhetorical modes. [14] The purpose of expository writing is to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion.

  6. Anne Elliot - Wikipedia

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    Anne Elliot is the protagonist of Jane Austen's sixth and last completed novel, Persuasion (1817).. Anne Elliot was persuaded, when she was 19 years old, to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a promising young lieutenant in the Royal Navy but a commoner without fortune, and she has never married.

  7. Louisa - Wikipedia

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    Louisa Clarke, main character in Me Before You and its film adaptation; Louisa Musgrove, character in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion; Louisa, the pen name of the eighteenth century English writer Elizabeth Boyd (1710–1745) Louisa, a character in the American-Canadian animated series Work It Out Wombats!

  8. Persuasive writing - Wikipedia

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    Persuasive writing is a form of written arguments designed to convince, motivate, or sway readers toward a specific point of view or opinion on a given topic. This writing style relies on presenting reasoned opinions supported by evidence that substantiates the central thesis .

  9. The Bedford Reader - Wikipedia

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    The eleventh edition of the book is composed of over seventy essays, one short story, and one poem. It is divided into eleven sections by the various methods of development: narration , description, example, comparison and contrast , analysis, process analysis , classification , cause and effect , definition , argument and persuasion , along ...