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- Jan 2021
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Usually memes take the form of text superimposed on an image. For example, the meme above conveys the dramatic reaction students sometimes give when I assign an essay. This is done primarily through a literary device called hyperbole, or exaggeration for rhetorical effect
What counts as literature is opinion based. What people like Aristotle considered artistic varies vastly from the opinions of people now a days. Literature holds value from the impressions it leaves, I instantly recognize "Hamlet" but I don't find it interesting enough to be moved, it was just imposed on me by a school curriculum. A piece will fall out of favor as a populations interests change.
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