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First part: text about literature
Hello! Here is a text I wrote about literature! I hope there aren’t too many mistakes!
We have to wonder about the following question: why and how can we say that an author is present in his texts as an “I” and that he has an “eye” for writing?
First of all, the poet uses his writing skills to speak about himself and his story. He uses stylistic devices such as metaphors, meaning that he removes a thing from its first identity by using another name to speak about it, in order to create a picture. The author can use it to speak about himself without clearly saying that he is the character (by because of bashfulness, maybe) or it’s even a way to give his text a poetic quality. In the case of William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Cat and the Moon” for example, the author tells the story of a cat connected to the moon, which is actually being the metaphor for of his relationship with the women he loves. In that case, the metaphor is even a personification. This use of the stylistic devices allows him to speak about his feelings.
There’s something else about the author talking about himself: he actually tells us who he is in the way he tells the story: For example Arthur C. Clarke uses a very precise scientific vocabulary in his science fiction stories: he was himself very fond of sciences and was a part of a scientific review for example, also he helped some scientific projects such as the invention of the satellites and others...
Très bon travail! Votre phrases sont très longues; en anglais, on n'utilise pas souvent des phrases longues. Mais vous écrivent plus bien que beaucoup des étudiants américains (je suis étudiante dans les États-Unis, et il y a des étudiants de ma classe d'anglais qui ne peuvent pas écrire aussi bien que vous).
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