guide to some typical and common features and is not meant to be an exhaustive list. Features may also vary in different communicative contexts. I. Informal Letter A letter is ‘a missive communication in writing‚ addressed to a person or body of persons; an epistle’ (From Oxford English Dictionary OED online. URL: www.oed.com). Typical informal contexts are writing to family members‚ relatives and friends‚ and love letters. Structure of a Personal Letter 1. Date – This is the date when
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Great Expectations‚ the characters’ actions and emotions are the heart of the story. You don’t read papers about how well Pip courted Estella throughout the book; you read papers investigating how Pip felt about his relationship with Estella throughout the book. You don’t read about how well Wopsle portrays Hamlet in chapter 31‚ you read about how Wopsle’s career in acting impacts Pip‚ or how Pip feels about the situation. And sometimes‚ the emotions in the story can be difficult to understand‚ or they
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and ruminations swiftly. She considers rape‚ how rape has recently been treated like a new scourge‚ and how essays and tips on rape prevention have become something of an institution themselves. Estelle recalls a conversation during a recent bridge game‚ where "rape fantasies" was the
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Jeremy Atticus Finch‚ or Jem as he is called by Scout‚ is the narrator’s brother in To Kill a Mockingbird. Jem is an athletic ten year old boy. Everyday during the summer he will play outside with his sister‚ Scout‚ and their friend Dill. As well as being athletic he is adventurous and highly spirited. He will run through the streets and climb trees‚ until Calpurnia‚ the cook‚ tells him to come inside. Jem is courageous and daring‚“in all his life‚ Jem had never declined a dare” (Lee 12). He can
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Elissa Nunnally Ms. Pettijohn English IV- DE 16 September 2014 [Title] The Canterbury Tales is a work written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late fourteenth century about a group of pilgrims‚ of many different occupations and personalities‚ who are on a journey to visit the shrine of Thomas a Becket. Chaucer discloses corruption in the church that was prevalent to society of the time. Within this work‚ Chaucer satirizes the pilgrims in ways to mock the practices of the church during the fourteenth century
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He knows more than the rest of the boys‚ as he knows how to blow into a conch‚ tell time by the sun‚ and create a signal fire “’I’ve been thinking‚’ he said‚ ’about a clock. We could make a sundial. We could put a stick in the sand‚ and then—’” (pg. 67). Not only‚ but Piggy is realistic when it comes to being
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Genre and Science Fiction Genre‚ as defined by the Oxford dictionary (2010)‚ is “a style or category of art‚ music‚ or literature”. It is a term that is easy to define but hard to understand. The mere division of what one genre is compared to another has been problematic for academics and scholars for centuries. As noted by Robert Allen‚ genre study has become “the division of the world of literature into types and naming of those types”. This has led the study of genre to become a more scientific
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During the nineteenth century photography was a very popular pursuit. Social and cultural circumstances as well as scientific interests spread the invention and use of photography. Not all people embraced photography‚ especially some artists who did not consider photographs to be a form of art‚ but many found it to be a very useful tool. Photographs served as documentation for wars and furthered scientific research‚ creating new technologies that we take for granted today‚ making it a useful tool
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Introduction to Genre Theory Daniel Chandler 1. The problem of definition A number of perennial doubts plague genre theory. Are genres really ’out there ’ in the world‚ or are they merely the constructions of analysts? Is there a finite taxonomy of genres or are they in principle infinite? Are genres timeless Platonic essences or ephemeral‚ time-bound entities? Are genres culturebound or transcultural?... Should genre analysis be descriptive or proscriptive? (Stam 2000‚ 14) The word genre comes from
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Contemporary Ballet Ballet is a formalized kind of performance dance which originated in the Italian Renaissance Courts of the 15th century and further developed in France‚ England‚ and Russia as a concert dance form. One of the genres of ballet is Contemporary. It is defined as a form of dance that is influenced by both classical ballet‚ modern dance‚ lyrical‚ and jazz (Wikipedia). It takes its technique and is used of point work from classical ballet‚ although it permits a greater
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