mimesis
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Watson concludes that “this is mimesis at its finest”; the semicolons hold the prose “in suspension,” and the reader in suspense, waiting, along with King, for justice.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
I still wonder if this is a kind of clever mimesis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2018
In victory a kind of mimesis has begun.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2018
Movies and TV shows often serve as mimesis machines, of course, fostering desires within viewers to replicate in their own lives what they see characters do and feel.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2018
Never, never in my life before did I dream that dramatic art, poetry, and mimesis could attain to such ideal splendour.
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
Vocabulary lists containing mimesis
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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