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    idea says that given a country’s resources (natural‚ human‚ and technological) and its irtitial distribution of wealth‚ the use of free markets will make people as economically well off as possible. Validity of the invisible-hand idea depends on a key assumption: The various markets in the economy‚ including financial markets‚ labor markets‚ and markets for goods and services‚ must function smoothly and without impediments such as minimum wages and interest rate ceilings. In particular‚ wages and

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    Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning

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    LITERARY CRITICISM LITERATURE • What is literature? Literate/ literacy - able to read/write Origin- from Latin “litteratura” (letter) • literature with the small ‘l’ Literature - piece of writing/printed information on a particular subject • literature with the big ‘L’ Literature - pieces of writing that are valued as works of art eg. Novels‚ plays‚ poems (contrast to technical books/ scientific/ academic writings) • Literary - connected with literature

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    Macbeth Literary Analysis The play Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s great tragedy filled stories. Throughout the play there are many different themes and symbols; one of the more important ones being sleep. Sleep or mainly sleep deprivation; the act of not getting much sleep‚ is something that fuels the character it effects‚ in their actions. During the first act there is not much talk of this particular theme‚ but the witches do make a very good “prediction” about what will happen to Macbeth:

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    Key Scenes Barn Scene Low light is used in the scene in which John Book fixes his car‚ emitted by a gas lamp‚ which is the only source of light. This gives an air of intimacy. It gives the effect to the audience of comfort. The song “Golden Oldie” is played when Book manages to fix the car. The song’s tone is quite joyous and this is effects the audience’s understanding of the tone of the scene. This is also shown through the fact that both Rachel and Book are happy. It is also the first scene

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    Wayson Choy was born in Vancouver‚ British Columbia in 1939. As a Chinese-Canadian he grew up and lived in Chinatown. He attended Gladstone secondary school‚ and then went on to attend the University of British Columbia studying creative writing. He was the first writer of Chinese ancestry to study in creative writing. He studied under Earle Birney. He moved to Toronto‚ Ontario in 1962‚ he began teaching at Humber College in 1967 and ended in 2004. He currently continues to teach at the Humber

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    speech that makes a reference to‚ or a representation of‚ people‚ places‚ events‚ literary work‚ myths‚ or works of art‚ either directly or by implication. A brief reference‚ explicit or indirect‚ to a person‚ place or event‚ or to another literary work or passage Function The function of allusion depends as well on the author’s intent; a reader may search out parallels to a figure of speech or a passage. Example: In act one of Death of a Salesman Adonis who is a character in greek mythology

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    http://www.translationdirectory.com/article301.htm Literary Translation: Recent Theoretical Developments By Sachin Ketkar Lecturer in English SB Garda College‚ Navsari www.geocities.com/sachinketkar sachinketkar@yahoo.com Literary studies have always‚ explicitly or implicitly‚ presupposed a certain notion of `literariness ’ with which it has been able to delimit its domain‚ specify‚ and sanction its methodologies and approaches to its subject. This notion of `literariness ’ is crucial

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    find out the relationship between the proximity of the residence and tardiness of the third year pilot students of the Rizal High School. It specifically answers the following questions: 1 What is the profile of the students in terms Of 1.1 Address 1.2 Gender 1.3 Age 2 How far is your school from your house? 3 How often do you get tardy in school? Hypotheses There is no relationship on the proximity

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    15. Polysyndeton is the use of a conjunction between each word‚ phrase‚ or clause‚ and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton. The rhetorical effect of polysyndeton‚ however‚ often shares with that of asyndeton a feeling of multiplicity‚ energetic enumeration‚ and building up. * They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked. Use polysyndeton to show an attempt to encompass something complex: * The water‚ like a witch’s oils‚ / Burnt green

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