You have been assigned a literary analysis essay in which you must explore the way Avi uses real history to tell his story. When you are looking for “real history,” you will refer to any idea or thing in the story that seems based in some aspect of historical fact. For example, you could explore Avi’s direct reference to historical events, his use of period clothing, or his reliance on historically accurate social or political values. Spend ten minutes brainstorming ideas that might work with this assignment. You can make a list of several different ideas, or you can explore one idea. The idea is just to brainstorm possible ways of approaching the task.

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the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following for purely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundred years after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabic imprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual history acknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation of both the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. the vast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has been integrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-called baghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages are preceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in its turn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating from indian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culture hold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisingly few details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actual position within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss links between the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveying these links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabian nights in modern iran

stopping by woods on a snowy evening" is written in a very deliberate meter and rhyming scheme. first, the meter is iambic tetrameter, meaning that each line is composed of four iambs, or "dadum" syllables. this is clearly seen in the first lines of the poem: whose woods these are i think i know.

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