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"Both English Lit 101 and Poetic Devices 101 do not require a direct note on where information is from so long as it is used to 'explain' something.
So if I said,
Argiels path by wind and storm.
- then stopped and 'defined' this
(Argiel the Celtic warrior, "Wind Symbol")
it is excepted without being plagiaristic."
Childlike spelling mistakes aside, I don't understand what you're even trying to prove. In your example, you are paraphrasing. Usually, in the case of paraphrasing, you ARE STILL supposed to cite your reference.
Something as widely disseminated as Celtic folklore might be accepted as common or popular knowledge, and paraphrasing might pass muster (although I don't know what community college you go to- my University's lowever division classes don't even permit me to quote Wikipedia, let alone quote Wikipedia without citing it.
Laziness is at the heart of bad scholarship. Bad scholarship is at the heart of your description. . .
"To define a singular in English Lit one can use any source 'without' stating what it is to define such a thing, this act is not plaguristic simply explanitory."
Where did you find this "rule?" First of all, what do you mean by "English Lit?" I hope you mean creative writing, because I would hardly consider your work literary.
To my knowledge, there aren't any enforced or enforceable rules about creative writing (it doesn't even have to be in English), except for one:
"Plagiarism is the practice of claiming or implying original authorship of (or incorporating material from) someone else's written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one's own without adequate acknowledgment."
Your description implied original authorship. This is why Everyone else in the world does this:
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere"
-Groucho Marx
If you only had the quote, people might think that you came up with it yourself, even if you were just using it as context, or a basis, or even as the premise of a really bad poem.
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