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mimesis is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include imitation, representation, mimicry, receptivity, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the presentation of the self.

Beauty is truth,truth beauty

 John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets .

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Ode on a Grecian Urm

The poem is one of several "Great Odes of 1819", which include "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", and "Ode to Psyche"

Bartleby, the Scrivener is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville

" Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!"----These are the last lines of "Bartleby the Scrivener."

Herman Melville was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. 

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Moby-Dick (The Whale) 

Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a whitewhale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee.

D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world", and "the greatest book of the sea ever written"

didacticism

Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art.The term has its origin in the Ancient Greek "related to education and teaching".Around the 19th century the term didactic came to also be used as a criticism for work that appears to be overly burdened with instructive, factual, or otherwise educational information, 

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Pride and Prejudice  is a novel of manners by Jane Austen. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of theBritish Regency.

" It is  a truth universally acknowledged."

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.Her realism, biting irony and social commentary as well as her acclaimed plots have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.

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Easter also called Pasch or Resurrection Sunday.

it is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion

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※asset - liabilities = equity

scri-:write

p.s.=post script

scrivener

equ-:平衡

equinox

equity

ast-: star

astronaut 

astronomy

spect-:see

respect

inspect

 

exquisitely

irreproachable

exemplary

asperity

retrospect

 

 

 

 

 

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