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  2. Shabaka Stone - Wikipedia

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    The stone is archaic, both linguistically (its language is similar to that used in the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom) and politically (it alludes to the importance of Memphis as the first royal city). [8] As such, Henri Frankfort, John Wilson, Miriam Lichtheim, and Erik Iversen have also assessed the stone to be from the Old Kingdom. [8]

  3. 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". [3] Dante's "In la sua volontade è nostra pace" ("In his will is our peace"; Paradiso, III.85) [4]

  4. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Repetition–Repetition often uses word associations to express ideas and emotions indirectly, emphasizing a point, confirming an idea, or describing a notion. Rhyme–Rhyme uses repeating patterns to bring out rhythm or musicality in poems. It is a repetition of similar sounds occurring in lines in a poem which gives the poem a symmetric quality.

  5. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, David A. Ross identified "The Second Coming" as "one of the most famous poems in the English language," [7] echoing Harold Bloom who, in 1986, cited the piece as "one of the most universally admired poems of our century." [8] Critics agree that the poetry of Percy Shelley had a strong influence on the drafting of "The Second Coming."

  6. The Moonstone - Wikipedia

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    T. S. Eliot called it "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe," [6] and Dorothy L. Sayers praised it as "probably the very finest detective story ever written". [7] G. K. Chesterton calls it "probably the best detective tale in the world". [8]

  7. Cupstone - Wikipedia

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    One encyclopedia of archaeology treats "pitted stone", "cupstones", and "nutting stones" as synonyms and says that they "may have been formed by cracking nutshells, though this activity lacks adequate confirmation through ethnographic examples or published experimentation." [2]

  8. Petrifaction in mythology and fiction - Wikipedia

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    It is an upright, lonely standing stone, called Zkamenělý pastýř ("Shepherd turned-into-stone") or Kamenný muž ("Stone Man"). [7] [8] In another Czech village, Družec, there is a sandstone Marian column from 1674 and a man-sized stone called Zkamenělec ("Man-turned-into-stone"), surrounded with legends of a punished perjurer or ...

  9. Byblos syllabary - Wikipedia

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    The Byblos script, also known as the Byblos syllabary, Pseudo-hieroglyphic script, Proto-Byblian, Proto-Byblic, or Byblic, is an undeciphered writing system, known from ten inscriptions found in Byblos, a coastal city in Lebanon.