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=== Examples === | === Examples === | ||
In J.R.R. Tolkein's <u>Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King</u> Frodo and Sam (the ringbearers) are trapped on Mount Doom during the eruption. Eagles fly from a distance and proceed to rescue them. | * In J.R.R. Tolkein's <u>Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King</u> Frodo and Sam (the ringbearers) are trapped on Mount Doom during the eruption. Eagles fly from a distance and proceed to rescue them. | ||
* [http://www.poemuseum.org/poes_life/index.html Edgar Allan Poe]'s story, [http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/works/pit_pend.html The Pit and the Pendulum], the narrator has just fallen over the edge of the deep pit when he reaches up and grabs the arm of the French general who has led the army to capture the fort where the narrator has been imprisoned. | |||
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=== Works Cited === | === Works Cited === | ||
* Cuddon, J.A. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Themes and Literary Theory''. 4th ed. 1999. | * Cuddon, J.A. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Themes and Literary Theory''. 4th ed. 1999. | ||
* Lass, Abraham H., David Kiremidjian, and Ruth M. Goldstein. ''The Dictionary of Classical, Biblical, & Literary Allusions''. 1991. | * Lass, Abraham H., David Kiremidjian, and Ruth M. Goldstein. ''The Dictionary of Classical, Biblical, & Literary Allusions''. 1991. | ||
* [http://www.gale.com/free_resources/glossary/glossary_de.htm#d www.gale.com] | |||