or angrily insulting manner. “Tom reviled after listening to a lecture that he didn’t agree with.” -Subversive: (Adjective) Seeking or intended to subvert and established system or institution. “The subversive prisoner approached the warden to speak his mind.” -Reconcile: (Verb) Restore friendly relations between. “She wanted to be reconciled with her mother.” -Rapacious: (Adjective) Aggressively greedy or grasping. “The rapacious tax collectors kept calling his phone.” -Plight: (Noun) A dangerous
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junior high students (18 boys and 18 girls) will view a photo of a 3-month-old infant. Students will be told the infant’s name is either “Larry‚” “Laurie‚” or they will not be told the infant’s name. Each student will rate the infant on 6 bipolar adjective scales (firm/soft‚ big/little‚ strong/weak‚ hardy/delicate‚ well coordinated/awkward‚ and beautiful/plain). It is predicted that both the name assigned to the infant and the students’ gender will affect ratings. Implications of the results for parenting
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Binsey which were felled in 1879. The poem is a dirge‚ an elegy for a landscape that Hopkins had known intimately while studying at Oxford‚ and thus its loss was keenly felt. The poem opens with “My aspens dear…” The possessive pronoun “My” and the adjective “dear” capture from the outset the poet’s sense of extreme personal loss – his cherished and beloved trees are now “All felled‚ felled‚ are all felled.” This dramatic line‚ with its repetition of the pronoun “All” and the verb “felled” is powerful
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CURRICULUM S.Y. 2013-2014 COURSE NO.: English III COURSE TITLE: English and American Literature COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on one’s understanding of the English and American Literature from old to contemporary. It assists one in honing skills and creativity through the different performance tasks- short story writing‚ drama presentation‚ poetry slam‚ and persuasive essay writing as well as enhancing their fundamental language skills as integrated in each lesson to help learners
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An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and Their Structure Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy Edinburgh University Press An Introduction to English Morphology Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language General Editor Heinz Giegerich‚ Professor of English Linguistics (University of Edinburgh) Editorial Board Laurie Bauer (University of Wellington) Derek Britton (University of Edinburgh) Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam) Norman Macleod (University of Edinburgh) Donka Minkova (UCLA)
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Experienced writers use a variety of sentences to make their writing interesting and lively. Too many simple sentences‚ for example‚ will sound choppy and immature while too many long sentences will be difficult to read and hard to understand. This page contains definitions of simple‚ compound‚ and complex sentences with many simple examples. The purpose of these examples is to help the ESL/EFL learner to identify sentence basics including identification of sentences in the short quizzes that
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LEARNING ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY FOR EFL LEARNERS Generally‚ we can mention that EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners are those who learn English tend to achieve the particular purpose. For example‚ they can use English when travelling or to communicate with other people from whatever country‚ who also speak English. We can classify the students of English department into EFL learners‚ too. So‚ they need to be able to speak English well. One of the foremost aspect in speaking English is we have
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Explore the ways in which Faulks uses nature within the novel ‘Birdsong’ Faulks uses nature as pathetic fallacy to mirror an individual’s feelings and emotions and to describe a setting with graphic vivid imagery in the novel ‘Birdsong’. He uses nature within the novel’s title ‘Birdsong’ to convey the idea that; all individuals are entitled to the right of freedom and bliss‚ we should all be able to sing and spread our wings just like birds. Alternatively‚ he might inferring that; the world is in
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between two different parts of speech but he also uses adjectives to develop the colorful tone of the story. “These happy children would pull and twist the long arms of billowy crepe paper into wondrous‚ multicolored plaits‚” (McPherson 13). The main character describes his observation of the colors around the Maypole as “wondrous‚” which continues to develop the tone of vibrant and youthful colorfulness throughout the story. The adjectives the author uses have a childish ambience to them‚ including
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the book and when read out loud it is literally music to your ears. The book almost flows as you read it and so makes it a joy to read. He uses a lot of literary devices to give you this sense of music and flow; onomatopoeia‚ metaphor‚ smiles and adjectives. In this passage‚ pages 5-6‚ Makine uses a vast amount of onomatopoeic words such as; ‘crunch’‚ ‘crackles’‚ ‘hisses’‚ ‘wail’‚ ‘whimperings’. He has them in the whole passage‚ as well as the book. Because of this Makine gives the book a sense
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