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A vignette is a small slice of life, capturing a moment in its vivid freshness.

A vignette is kind of like an illustration. It's a short, descriptive passage that's more about evoking meaning through imagery than it is about plot.

Myop’s age and innocence obstruct her from seeing deeply into the full implications of the scene, while the more worldly reader is jarred and confronted with a whole history of racial violence and slavery.

Starting from the early, short, and visually interesting collection of vignettes--the three mountains press in our time of 1923--Hemingway seems to have devised and rejected, various ordering principles for his first sustained work.

What happens though when a reader encounters a work of considerable length made up of individual short pieces or vignettes that include rhythm and rhyme and is framed by an underlying, unifying story line linking the vignettes together?

Answers to Module 7 Questions

 * 1) This is a photo of a decorative vignette, used to decorate the beginnings of chapters in old books.
 * 2) This image is not my own work
 * 3) The file format is a ".gif"
 * 4) This work is in the public domain
 * 5) This image would belong in categories such as literature, vignettes, decorative drawings, artwork
 * 6) This file depicts a drawing of a letter with a black box around it and flowers and leaves surrounding it.

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