FACULTY OF LANGUAGE STUDIES TMA COVER FORM EL121 The Short story and Essay Writing Part (I) STUDENT INFORMATION (to be completed by student)1. Name 2. Registration No3. Section No4. Tel. 5. E- I confirm that the work presented here is my own and is not copied from any source. Students signaturePart (II) TUTORS REMARKS (to be completed by tutor)Tutor nameSignatureDate TMA receivedDate returnedTUTORS REMARKS Mark Allocated to TMASTUDENT MARK 30For content a maximum of 30 marks Marks deducted
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Jackson Crain Professor Coney English 1123-B Period 28 April 2013 “Luck” Mark Twain’s short story "Luck" is written in third person point of view making it seem like your there at graduation day with Scoresby‚ and the Reverend. This story is very entertaining because it tells the story about a Reverend a former instructor and soldiers in the military who describe a man that he used to be friends‚ with as an absolute fool. According to the Reverend‚ his old friend‚ Scoresby‚ is only successful
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captivity. This literary piece is known as “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”. This story was a personal recollection of Rowlandson’s life as a prisoner of war‚ taken captive by the Algonquians during King Phillip’s war in 1675 (Rosenmeier 255). This narrative was composed of great adventure‚ courage‚ a look into the lives of the Indian people‚ and most importantly religious devotion. When reading Rowlandson’s narrative‚ there may be different interpretations of
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Autobiography of Frederick Douglass‚ titled “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”‚ utilizes five key literary devices in order to better convey Douglass’s journey from enslavement to freedom. This includes the use of Imagery‚ diction‚ first person point of view‚ specific details‚ and allusion. Each of these is used to help convey the experiences of slavery‚ as well as the joys and fears of being a freed slave. The use of Imagery throughout the narrative engrosses the reader and provides him with
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At first sight‚ these two works have little things in common. The settings are very different one from another and the narratives depicted different times and also different historical contexts. Mary Rowlandson was a Puritan woman‚ wife and daughter of Puritans’ reverends‚ established in Lancaster‚ Massachusetts‚ in the colony called New England. The book entitled A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) reports her captivity – with her children – by Indians during
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Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative „A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson“‚ published in 1682‚ is an account of a Puritan women held captive by Natives after having witnessed the destruction of her town and her return to her Puritan community. Although her narrative speaks greatly of Puritan faith and culture‚ the Puritan lens is lifted at some points and entirely neglected‚ telling not only the story of the faithful women withstanding and surviving savages‚ but
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Puritan and Indian cultures collide in Mary Rowlandson ’s " A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson." This is a Puritan woman ’s account of her captivity during the King James ’s War in the Indian raid on Lancaster‚ Massachusetts. A leading Indian family held her in captivity for eleven weeks before she is returned to her husband. She wrote about her experiences‚ she describes traveling from one "remove" to another with her Indian master‚ experiencing hard work and
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Alvarenga 1 Tirzah Alvarenga Ms. Fortier English II 11 January 2011 Narrative and Lyric Poetry Poetry has been around for centuries. Most often poetry is used when someone is down or when someone wants to show his or her love to someone else. Poetry is basically language condensed for artistic effect. Two types of poetry are narrative poetry and lyric poetry. Narrative poetry tells a story‚ a particular event‚ or happening‚ it often relates to a long story. Lyric poetry is any fairly short
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Nowadays an increasing interest is attached to the different types of narratives. The analysis of the types of author’s narrative in the works of modern English novelists allows us to penetrate into the inner world of the author and to define the language structures that are used to create the text itself. The types of the author’s narratives have not yet been exhausted in linguistic studies. The urgency of the author’s narrative has been accentuated in the publications of well-known researchers
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Area of Study: Belonging AREA OF STUDY: * Explore and examine relationships between language and text and interrelationships among texts. * Synthesize ideas to clarify meaning and develop new meanings. * Take into account context‚ purpose and register‚ text structures‚ stylistic features‚ grammatical features and vocabulary. * Perceptions and ideas of belonging/not belonging. * Personal‚ historical‚ cultural and social contexts. * Connections made with people‚ places‚
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