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        <title><![CDATA[This question is a bit vague. I am not sure whether you are asking how...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This question is a bit vague. I am not sure whether you are asking how the setting affects people in a story or how the setting affects readers. I will answer the latter, since the previous answer examined the former.
The setting in a story sets the mood and more importantly, it cues a reader to expect certain things. For example, if the setting takes place in a creepy house, then the reader expected something of the horror genre. If the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Setting is composed of time and place.  Characters are products often...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Setting is composed of time and place.  Characters are products often of their culture and the prevailing social, economic, and geographic surroundings.  For example, the farmers of the lowlands are less violent than the herdsmen of the highlands because they are not as defensive and paranoid of their livelihoods getting stolen.
Ask Odysseus the importance of setting.  For 20 years he labored to return to his island home.  He ventured to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:49:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[how does setting affect people?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[how does setting affect people?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:12:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gustav Freytag (1816-1895) while analysing the structure of ancient...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gustav Freytag (1816-1895) while analysing the structure of ancient Greek drama visualized the plot of ancient Greek tragedies in the form of  a pyramid with five parts:
1. the exposition or the initial incident
2. the rising action
3. the crisis
4. the falling action
5. the end or the denouement
The rising action is that section of the plot of a play or a novel which acts as a link or a bridge between the beginning of the plot and the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 07:11:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rising action is characteristic of dramatic fiction and narrative...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Rising action is characteristic of dramatic fiction and narrative fiction. It is an element of plot structure in literature. It guides the reader from the beginning of the story to its climax. The rising action encompasses the events of the story that take place before the climax. Falling action is what happens after the climax.
To help many in mapping out the elements of plot structure like rising action, a diagram is often drawn. The diagram...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:39:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is rising action?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is rising action?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:28:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I will do the best I can to answer your question, but it sounds like the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I will do the best I can to answer your question, but it sounds like the kind of thing that comes out of a specific textbook (which, of course, I don't have access too : )  I say that because it sounds like the kind of question where three "purposes of satire" were given (probably in bold text) with explanations underneath.
The problem is that I can only think of one purpose for satire, but lots of ways it is handled.  The purpose of satire,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:13:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are three purposes for satire and three methods used by satirists...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are three purposes for satire and three methods used by satirists to achieve their purposes?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:04:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Here is the answer:
1. Mary has cut out all the pictures in this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here is the answer:
1. Mary has cut out all the pictures in this magazine.
2. A heavy snowfall held up the trains from the north.
As I stated in a previous post, the best way to learn which words go with which prepositions is memorization. Any grammar book with has a section on prepositions. The other thing to do is change up the sentence to see if it sounds correct and by this you can deduce which preposition to use. Also when you read good...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:23:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Here is the sentence:
1. If he refused to fall in with my plans.
2. The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here is the sentence:
1. If he refused to fall in with my plans.
2. The burglar cleared out when he heard me coming.
3. Our water supply was cut off, because the pipe burst.
The best way to study prepositions is the look at a grammar book and memorize which prepositions go with which words. This might seem tedious, but it is the best way.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:35:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[1-If he refused to fall   with my plans.2-the burglar cleared   when...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[1-If he refused to fall   with my plans.2-the burglar cleared   when he heard me coming.3-Our water supply was cut   because the pipe burst.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:00:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[1-Mary has cut    all the pictures in this magazine.2-a heavy...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[1-Mary has cut    all the pictures in this magazine.2-a heavy snowfall held   the trains from the north.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:37:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The subordinate, or dependent clause, is "which was published in 1949 as...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The subordinate, or dependent clause, is "which was published in 1949 as Orwell suffered with tuberculosis." This is an adjective clause.  Within the adjective clause lies an adverb clause "as Orwell suffered with tuberculosis."  Which is the subject and was published is the verb of the first subordinate clause.  Orwell is the subject and suffered is the verb of the second clause.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:50:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Main Clause or the Independent Clause which makes complete sense...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Main Clause or the Independent Clause which makes complete sense when it stands all by itself is:
'Nineteen Eighty-Four gave a gloomy account of a dystopia of repression and propaganda.'
The sub-ordinate clause or the dependent clause which will not make complete sense by itself is:
'which was published in 1949 as Orwell suffered with tuberculosis'
Since this sub-ordinate clause is within parenthesis, that is, enclosed within commas it is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:47:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A subordinate clause is one which functions as an adjective, and adverb,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A subordinate clause is one which functions as an adjective, and adverb, or a noun.  It expressed an idea that is less important than the main clause.  It can not stand on its own as a sentence.
In this sentence, the subordinate clause is
"which was published in 1949... tuberculosis."
This clause gives us more information about the circumstances of the publication, but could not stand alone as a sentence.
The main clause is "1984 gave a ......]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:43:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Which part of the following sentence is a subordinate clause?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Which part of the following sentence is a subordinate clause?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:28:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The voice of a literary work can be variable as well as the characters...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The voice of a literary work can be variable as well as the characters in it. If there is a third person who is omniscient, then the author is saying that the third person is reliable. He is sort of an "infallible" guide in the literary work. However, I would be cautious about the idea of an omniscient person in any literature. You must test whether this person is actually correct. Sometimes the author could have fun with portraying someone as...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:24:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The third person omniscient writing style is when the author is able to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The third person omniscient writing style is when the author is able to speak to all characters' emotions, motivations, beliefs.  The author is "all knowing," able to move freely between characters and is not limited.  They have the "bird's eye view" of what is happening and are able to write in such a manner.  This is where it helps to characterize an author's voice because they are able to  possess freedom on what they want to show and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:25:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is 'third person omniscience' in an authors' writing style? How...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is 'third person omniscience' in an authors' writing style? How does it characterise the 'voice' an author chooses to write in?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:09:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    I'm not sure that the definition is an exact one for this word,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    I'm not sure that the definition is an exact one for this word, but if you are certain that the 16-letter word begins with a "c," then it could be that the word you are seeking is characterization. It has 16 letters and begins with a "c," but a more exact definition would be the attributes and process that the writer uses to make a specific character seem real to the reader.     A two-word literary term that would fit your...]]></description>
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