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…, and it could have been the tale of a Frenchman, an Englishman, or an American. It is perhaps the most tragic generation our human records tell of. It bears the overwhelming accent of simple truth that makes you wonder why war still exists. May 11, 1998…

…poetic sound. Alliteration also helped the scops or storytellers in memorizing the tales. Examples of alliteration can be found throughout the poem such as, "The Hall of the Heart", "His pledge and promise", "Dragging the dead men home to his den", "Fitted…

…Yellow Raft In Blue Waters is a tale of three women a fifteen year old half black and half Indian Rayona, who is trying to find herself, her American Indian mother Christine, consumed by both tenderness and resentment for the people she adores…

…the room and asks if the man there can tell him the way back to England. The man turns around and Gulliver is looking at an exact replica of himself. This second Gulliver states "You know the way home, but you'll never find it because deep in you heart, you…

…the scops or storytellers in memorizing the tales. Examples of alliteration can be found throughout the poem such as, "The Hall of the Heart", "His pledge and promise", "Dragging the dead men home to his den", "Fitted and furnished", and "Showed sea-cliffs…

…R. L. Fisher struck ground when he said "Robinson Crusoe can be appreciated on a multitude of levels: as an adventure story, a morality tale, a ledger sheet, a Puritan fable, a survival course, a defense of the ethnic of hard work as a way of salvation…

…are symbolic to real life. As he states from the preface to the eighteen fifty one edition of Twice-Told Tales; “Even in what puport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always warmly dressed in its habilments of flesh and blood as to be taken…

…imagery when he describes the setting of the place. He tells his readers the boy is standing outside by describing the visible mountain ranges and sets the time of day by saying that the sun is setting. Frost gives his readers an image of the boy feeling pain…

…The narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird is Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch who lives with her brother Jem and widowed father who is a lawyer in the Alabama town of Maycomb. The story covers three consecutive summers and at the start of the tale Scout is aged six…

…. After this, she threw the scarlet letter towards the brook. "With a hand's breadth further flight it would have fallen into the water, and have given the little brook another woe to carry onwards, besides the unintelligible tale which it still kept murmuring…