‘In Paris with You’ by James Fenton Learning objectives: - AO1: respond to texts critically and imaginatively‚ select and evaluate textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations. - AO2: explain how language‚ structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas‚ themes and settings. Pre-reading activity: 1. What do you associate with Paris? For example‚ you might think of the Eiffel Tower‚ fancy restaurants‚ or the Stade de France. Try to
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bathos: Pompous speech with a ludicrously mundane worded anti-climax * catachresis: Mixed metaphor (sometimes used by design and sometimes a rhetorical fault) * circumlocution: "Talking around" a topic by substituting or adding words‚ as in euphemism or periphrasis * commiseration: Evoking pity in the audience * correctio: Linguistic device used for correcting one’s mistakes‚ a form of which is epanorthosis * denominatio: Another word for metonymy * double negative: Grammar
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before they go to the toilet. In most of the cases‚ however‚ these women do not actually get their noses powders. In formal social gatherings‚ to say “going to the toilet” is often considered unrefined or uncouth. The women are obliged to use a euphemism in accordance to proper etiquette. In some situations‚ telling the complete truth can be a waste of time. For instance‚ when I ran into one of my friends on the street he asked me where I was going. I told him that I was going to the park when in
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“Scriptural paradigm of the person out of which there can develop more congruence between our actual work with the person and our psychological models of theory and treatment.’ Calvin was concern about current doctrines and not about past ideas that did not survive. Calvin actually barely refers‚ in “Psychopannychia‚” debating about the soul other than those directly related to the opinions that he prefers to disprove. Calvin rather uses terms like slumbers‚ hypnologues‚ hypnosophists‚ and soul-killers
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Wannsee Conference The Wannsee Conference was held in order to explain the Nazis’ plan to carry out the “Final Solution”. The “Final Solution” is a euphemism to make their plan sound better than what it actually was. There was nothing good about this plan; the main goal of it was to get rid of the Jews by any means possible. It was estimated that around 11‚000‚000 Jews in Europe will be involved in the "Final Solution”. During the movie it was evident that not a single one of the officials at the
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EVE-TEASING Among various social problems‚ eve-teasing has become a great threat to our social life. This acute problem has become a common affaire in our day to day life. Eve-teasing is a sort of euphemism in which the naughty‚ aimless young boys pass bad comments on the teenage girls to make them irritated or embarrassed. It is mainly related to women. Mainly the teenage girls are the victims of it. Some young boys with no study and work like to play tricks and jokes on the school going girls
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The Essays of George Orwell are a personal anthropological and cultural artifact‚ serving as authorial cathartic metalanguage that is ‘essentially communicative’ of omnipresent themes [John Donne‚ Metatempsychosis‚ 1601]. Such are indicative in ‘Why I write?’‚ ‘Writers and Levithan’ and ‘Politics and the English Language’‚ which are perpetually and contemporaneously relevant through Freudian ‘Ontological Pastiche of Experience’‚ as changing milieus offer new interpretations‚ producing continual fascination
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- Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing‚ some abstract quality‚ an inanimate object‚ or a nonexistent character. 5. Assonance - Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. 6. Euphemism - The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit. 7. Hyperbole - An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. 8. Irony - The use of words to
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pay strike benefits of $55 per week to striking UPS workers. With these factors taken into consideration‚ UPS representatives entered contract negotiations prepared to play hardball. They demanded a 7-year contract and “general flexibility‚” a euphemism for never-ending concessions regarding work rules. They wanted to convert more full-time positions into part-time work‚ reduce vacation days‚ holidays and personal days‚ and eliminate union jobs by making highway drivers self-employed
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appears in definitions‚ and when it does the definition is a persuasive definition and sets the stage for a false argument. Also‚ emotionally charged language includes not only words that generate emotions but also words that suppress them‚ such as euphemisms. First‚ the Straw Man Fallacy misrepresents another person’s argument in order to one’s argument seem stronger. Also a person will deliberately not state specific information to falsify their argument and weaken the other person’s argument. For
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