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Exercises in Style (French: Exercices de style), written by Raymond Queneau, is a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style.In each, the narrator gets on the "S" bus (now no. 84), witnesses an altercation between a man (a zazou) with a long neck and funny hat and another passenger, and then sees the same person two hours later at the Gare St-Lazare getting advice ...
Together with Vicente Huidobro and Jorge Luis Borges, he helped to develop the Índice de la nueva poesía, an index aimed at becoming the canon of avant-garde poetry in Latin America. [6] Innovative and important as this might have been, simplismo had no, and still does not have, followers interested in systematizing, refuting, rethinking or ...
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
A 12-year-old girl and her 40-year-old mother were among six people wounded in a brazen shooting inside a Bronx convenience store after the parent was used as a human shield by the “cowardly ...
A Maryland jury finds 'Real Housewives of Potomac' star Karen Huger guilty of driving under the influence and several other charges after she was arrested earlier this year.
A California man who pleaded guilty to a felony for his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol filed a letter Wednesday showing he was personally invited by a retired Republican ...
Additionally, the second album of the renowned Chilean series 31 Minutos is titled 31 canciones de amor y una canción de Guaripolo ("31 Love Songs and a Guaripolo Song"), making reference to the title of Neruda's book. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair remains Neruda's most well-known work and has sold millions of copies worldwide. [3]
PARIS/MORONI (Reuters) -Emergency workers sought survivors on Monday and struggled to restore services in Mayotte, France's poorest overseas territory, where hundreds or even thousands are feared ...