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Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, and Rhetoric
Jane Austen wasn’t just your ordinary hack writer. She was a student of rhetoric. Continue reading
Writing Fiction: Repetition
Contrary to what English teachers mark in students papers —word already used, you are repeating yourself, duplicated word— repetition, when handled well, can be an effective tool for writing fiction. Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Karenina, Author, Gustave Flaubert, jane austen, Leo Tolstoy, Literature, mary duffy, sentence openers
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What is the Pathetic Fallacy?
The pathetic fallacy illustrated with an example culled from Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers. Continue reading
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Jane Austen and the USA’s Constitution
Jane Austen’s novel Emma depicts the British social system of hierarchies and inequalities, where titles of nobility and the landed gentry are the regents of the majority of the population. The founding fathers didn’t want such a detestable caste system and so wrote it into our Constitution. Continue reading
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