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• The language is simple and the tone is informal.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
An autobiography is a person’s own biography, or a written account of his life. It can take two main forms.
• Informal autobiography: it includes journals or diaries, intimate writings, which usually emphasise what is remembered rather than who is remembering it. The a

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- The key-note, an incident or a crisis, arouses (attira) the reader’s interest and serves as a catalyst to the development of the story
- The climax comes unexpected to surprise the reader
- The conclusion can vary: it can be a good conclusion (the conflict are resolved), bad conclusion (the characters can fail or die), open conclusion ( the co

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These last words refer obviously to politics in fact George Orwell explored English as a political instrument, and in particular with how it was used and abused to justify acts of inhumanity.
He contends that writing is done in modern English prose through words that don’t have an immediate communication and show incompetence and vagueness, revealin

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The novel is an investigation of the human significance whose complexity requires a certain length.
The setting:
The setting is the place and the time of the story.
Time setting usually refers to the time of the day, the season, the year; but it also includes social and historical factors which are very important.
Place setting can be in

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JOSEPH CONRAD: was born in 1857, in the Russian dominated Ukraine. He has a long-standing passion to go to the sea. So he joined the French and also the British Merchant Navy. He sailed all over the world, mainly in the Far East, which was the setting of many of his stories and novels. In 1895 he retired from the sea, settled in England and devotes

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Byron: a way to reach freedom.
Shelley: universal power, it has a moral essence, it is revolutionary because you can reach freedom. Keats: goes over sense and create a medieval world that doesn’t exist, like in his ballads.

TASK OF THE POET:
Blake: is a visionary man gifted with imagination. The prophet of imagination. He warns man a

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During the Cold War, United States were threatened by communism. In effect, the Truman Administration held a demonised view of the Soviet Union that wanted to convince the Americans to no have contact with the communist party or its members.
A special commission called“ House of Un-American Activities Committee”was born to investigate on people that

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The pressure for reform
After the French Revolution, Britain had turned politically conservative. Industrial regions of
the country were not so well represented, votes had to be declared publicly, was often subject to
bribery or intimidation. These factors gave rise to the working class Chartist movement. The Chartists' demands contained six

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Features
• USE OF TIME: it moves backwards and forwards through memories
• DIVISION IN 2 SECTIONS, in each of them is narrated a generation. The two parts are linked by the presence of Heathcliff, who is in both sections: 1. the first section is centred on Heathcliff and Catherine. The story is romantic and imaginative; 2. The second one is

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Focus on the text: Jane Eyre
The novel is given an autobiographical feel through use of the first-person narrator that allows the reader to see things from Jane's point of view. Her way of describing the events in her life is very much mediated by her feelings and emotional responses. When the novel first came out it was a shock for some reader