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| | Chord Structure in Joyce Carol Oates' "Heat" |
 | | But the last sentence, with its clauses of ascending importance, ties the chord together: their age - no longer old enough to be babies but young enough to be uninhibited; the fact that they are twins, of which we will be reminded often; and perhaps the most important cell, their power. |
 | | This movement closes with three striking chords, one signalling a theme to be taken up later, another related to an earlier theme, and a third to punctuate the closing of the movement. |
 | | With each chord, a little bit more empirical evidence is added, or elaborated on, as in a detective story: the doctors' examination, the bicycles at the foot of his stairway, and the mid-day bath, his habitual cleanliness and, as mentioned previously, his physical endowment. |
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