ludzkie-ciekawostki: Literary device

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A literary device, literary technique, figure of speech, rhetorical device, stylistic device, or trope is any strategy of using language that a writer or speaker employs to deliberately achieve some purpose. This purpose is typically: to focus or guide the audience's attention, to make the language or its content memorable, or to evoke a particular emotional, rational, aesthetic, or other response. The many names (or synonyms) for this concept may carry slightly distinct meanings in technical scholarly usage. Literary devices are classifiable into various sub-categories, such as narrative devices, poetic devices, argumentative devices, linguistic schemes or templates, or other techniques di…

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Religions intersect with LGBTQ people through a range of beliefs, practices, and organizational policies that shape experiences of romantic orientation and relationships including same-sex couples, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and participation in social and religious life. The relationship between religion and sexual orientation, romantic orientation, and gender identity varies widely across traditions and communities. In many cases, understandings of romance, gender, and sexuality do not align with modern Western LGBTQ categories, reflecting different cultural and historical perspectives. Within both historic and contemporary religious traditions, views on LGBTQ peo…

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The Many and Various Forms of Historical Writing

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Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales, legends, proverbs, poems, and jokes. This also includes material culture, such as traditional building styles common to the group. Folklore also encompasses customary lore, taking actions for folk beliefs, including folk religion, and the forms and rituals of celebrations such as festivals, weddings, folk dances, and initiation rites. Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a folklore artifact or traditional cultural expression. Just as essential as the form, folklore can also encompasses the transmission of these ar…