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The word inconspicuous means not clearly visible, or not obvious. I figured this would be the meaning, considering birds would want to keep hidden from predators, so they would stay somewhere not clear and camouflaged.
This scroll shows and illustrates a very delicate and intense emotional scene from "The Tale of Genji". The illustration shows prince being sad while holding the baby as he knows that the baby is not his son but the child's father is in fact Genji's nephew.
The correct answer to this question is "Noon." The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. Print.
Mitch is writing a research paper on the motifs and symbols in the Lord of the Flies by William Golding. He used a dictionary entry as a resource. The correct way to cite a dictionary entry according to MLA style is <span><em>"Noon." The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. Print.</em></span>
<span>Romantic ideals in the early to mid-nineteenth century were shattered by the Civil War. Americans grew disillusioned by the war. They didn't agree with the glorious depiction of war that romantic literature tried to capture, both during and after the war. This disillusionment led writers to take a different perspective in their literature. Literary movements such as realism, naturalism, and pastoralism were the result. While realism and naturalism embraced scientific principles, pastoralism attempted to recapture romanticism by portraying the simple life. During the post-Civil War period, some writers felt that there was a need to show that romantic literature, as a whole, was not forgotten. Pastoralism depicted the beauty of a simple life, in particular, that of a shepherd’s, in order to recapture romanticism. Plato</span>
