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miércoles, 6 de febrero de 2013

Why do you think literary devices are important for understanding written novels?

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  1. Remember this space will be opened until next Wednesday 13. If you participate after that date, I won't assign any grades. Hurry up!!!

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  2. Hello teacher, well I think that literary devices are important for understanding written novels because they allow us to identify the different emotions, points of view, ways to think about someone or something that a writer want to express when he or she writes something. Besides literary terms give us tools for identifing and understand what an author really mean in some passages of his or her novels. Nixon Romero

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    1. Very good Nixon! What's your favorite literary device and why?

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    2. Well teacher for me metonimy is very interesting because it makes people to think about what an author really want to mean or express in a written novel.

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  3. Well, teacher I think that is literary devices are very important because througth them the author can express us(the audience) many thingsm as feelings, I can´t imagine story as Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Hungry Games without these devices. The description of the characters, places, alliteration, allusion, among others, became the book in something with life and full of expresions!

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  4. I agree with William, also I have to say that literary devices give life and emotions to the written novels. As human beings we need to feel passion and intensity in those dialogues, since we are not robots, our emotions need to be involved when we read something to find it interesting or may be not.

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  5. By example this piece of ``4:50 from Padditong´´ by Agatha Christie: ``They discoursed gravely during lunch on events in the sporting word,with occasional references to the latest space fiction. Their manner 
    was that of elderly professors discussing palaeolithic implements.´´ 
    The author use metaphor to describe the intesive of the conversation between the characters.

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    1. Is metaphor your favorite literary device? If so, why?

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