MODULE 2: LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITY The West Indies coincides with the following territories of the Commonwealth Caribbean: Jamaica‚ Trinidad‚ Tobago‚ Guyana‚ Barbados‚ Grenada‚ St. Lucia‚ St. Vincent‚ Dominica‚ Antigua‚ St. Kitts‚ Nevis‚ Anguilla and Montserrat. (a) Differentiation between ‘language’ (generic) and ‘a language’ (individual). Language is an ability which every normal human being has and it allows him not only to communicate with other human beings but also with himself
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Plot The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. See Conflict‚ Climax‚ Denouement‚ andFlashback. Dialogue The conversation of characters in a literary work. In fiction‚ dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays‚ characters’ speech is preceded by their names. act n. 5. One of the major divisions of a play or opera. scene a. The scenery and properties for a dramatic presentation mo·tif a. A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work
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Critical Commentary Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’ embodies the male craving for intercourse‚ as in the poem the narrator tries to convince a woman to have sex with him. The poem is abounded with metaphysical conceits and really depicts the theme of carpe diem. With the exploitation of numerous motifs‚ compelling imagery and its rhythm‚ Marvell is able to construct a very influential argument. Initially‚ Marvell uses the metaphysical conceit to compliment the woman as a means of persuasion
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“natural‚” the reader is able to understand that the way Medea reacted towards Jason was expected. He then specifies that it is natural to the “female sex” meaning he is targeting that specific gender. He utilizes the word “vent” which carries a connotative tone of passiveness. When someone vents it is usually an act of complaining rather than a call to action. This shows that when she lashed out at Jason‚ he didn’t take to heart anything she said or even consider altering his behavior. Overall this
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Invictus Annalistic Essay Invictus by William Ernest Henley is a powerful poem portraying the fate of human beings. The author clearly is writing about his own struggles for his pain is obvious in the poem. Henley suffered from terrible health problems and also had a child who passed during his own lifetime. Henley encountered many obstacles in his life‚ some which may have caused others to be defeated. But as the poem Invictus states‚ Henley had an “unconquerable soul.” The word Invictus is
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other types. The wife beater shirt and sagging jeans have negative meaning behind there styles. Gayle Rosenwald Smith wrote the essay‚ “The Wife Beater”‚ it is about the sleeveless undershirt men and women both wear and how its’ name has a connotative meaning. She stated how much she hates the name that is pinned to the shirt. She also says how it’s mostly people ages 25 and under who do not mind the name and think nothing of it. In the article‚ she stated that the Oxford Dictionary defines the
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1 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF DANANG PHAN TH THU TH Y AN INVESTIGATION INTO ENGLISH - VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION OF EUPHEMISM Subject Area : The English Language Code : 60.22.15 M.A. THESIS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Supervisor: TR N ĐÌNH NGUYÊN‚ M.A. DANANG - 2011 i DECLARATION Except where reference is made in the text of the thesis‚ this thesis contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole or in part from a thesis by which I have qualified
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I am so glad that it gave me an insight into rhetorical analysis and fairy tales. I would’ve never imagined that the same Cinderella story I used to love has words with connotative power. This course shaped my perspectives about fairy tales and the research done for the RIP helped me become aware. I improved at transitioning and paragraph formation as my professor taught me to generally start a paragraph with a key statement
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The vivid descriptions and connotative meanings are such efficient examples are effective literary techniques. The imagery alone illustrates his anecdotes perfectly. “Virtually everybody seems to sense that a mugger wouldn’t be warbling bright‚ sunny selections from Vivaldi’s Four
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descriptions and noun phrases such as "brown monkeys"‚ as well as non compositional noun phrases where the meaning isn’t implicit in the words but requires outside reference to make sense; "The average Ghanaian citizen has 3.6 children" is an ambiguous denotative term with no particular object and only has meaning in relation to a mathematically derived average. Russell’s project attempts to ascribe meaning to DD’s‚ at its most simply level his theory runs; a sentence of the form "The X is Y" contains
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