Year 10 Speeches 2013 Choose 1 of the following 4 topic areas for a 3 minute speech : ‘Starstruck’: celebrity topic Celebrities are big business. The stars of film‚ TV‚ music and sport are some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. Their faces sell millions of magazines and products. Every detail of their lives is captured by journalists and the paparazzi and distributed to their legions of fans through traditional media and the internet. * Do we really need all the
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are understood by when‚ where and how they are used. It also depends on who reads them. What is humour? Humour is an entertaining formof communication which attemptsto make someone feel cheerful or happy. Those things that are considered humourous are in someway comical/ funny‚ cause amusement and may cause laughter. Twisted humour covers subjects that are seen as "odd" by sone people. Slapstick humour ( phsical comedy that is exaggerrated and boisterous) are popular with children while satire (comedy
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The porter scene in ‘Macbeth’ follows the treacherous murder of King Duncan and is striking‚ as it is where Shakespeare clearly weaves comedy in amongst the tragedy of the rest of the play. There are plenty of speculations concerning the purpose of the scene; however‚ there is no doubt that it holds great significance nevertheless. Elizabethan theatres were very different to the theatres we know today. There was no special lighting available nor curtains‚ and scene switchovers could have been
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2. Compare and contrast bodies of work by two artists you have studied. In your discussion‚ address the significance of intentions to their practise. The intention of practitioners is pivotal to their practice‚ these intentions may be different or similar between artists‚ and two artists whose body of works will be discussed throughout this response include Chris O’Doherty (b.1951) a contemporary Australian artist and Lin Onus (b. 1948 d.1996) a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist. The artworks
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CLOSE STUDY OF A TEXT: SPEAKING TASK Comedy is‚ by nature‚ difficult to translate as its appeal depends on local and topical interest. However‚ William Shakespeare ahs evidently proven in his play “Much Ado about Nothing”‚ that comedy can transcend time. This play‚ which was written in a patriarchal society‚ can be applied to today’s modern audience in a post – feminist world. Shakespeare’s conventions have ensured the ongoing success and due to his use of sexual innuendos‚ satire‚ deceit and wit
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thinking. Burns creates a distinctive voice in her poems by examining the themes of psychology‚ obsession and paranoia through the use of various techniques such as humour and irony. Similarly‚ Danny Katz’s article "Christmas: a time for peace‚ love and corpses decaying in the living room" creates a distinctive voice through the use of black humour to criticise society’s beloved tradition of cutting down trees for Christmas. Burns discusses in depth the flaw of psychology but exploring society’s in medical
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any time period. With the use of witty dialogue‚ animal imagery‚ sexual innuendo‚ malapropisms and including funny situations and characters‚ Much Ado About Nothing is similar to modern day comedy movies and TV shows. This proves that the type of humour Shakespeare strives to attain is carried out well into the 20th and 21st centuries. In Much Ado About Nothing animal imagery and references are used to relate certain characters to animals by the way they act‚ speak or look. In most cases‚ the
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and the sub-plot. Not only do the characters deceive each other‚ but many of them are also self-deceived and we‚ as the audience‚ begin to realise ourselves that we are sometimes deceived. This creates great opportunities for Shakespeare to create humour and dramatic irony‚ which a Shakespearian audience would understand. Deception also links in with the other key themes of love and disguise. When Shakespeare first introduces Viola‚ we realise from the main plot that she is the main part of deception
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MASTER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS MASTER DISSERTATION THE ROLE OF CONVERSATIONAL MAXIMS‚ IMPLICATURE AND PRESUPPOSITION IN THE CREATION OF HUMOUR: AN ANALYSIS OF WOODY ALLEN’S ANYTHING ELSE Department of English Philology I‚ UCM STUDENT: Ramiro Nieto Álvaro TUTOR: Dr. Marta Begoña Carretero Lapeyre Septiembre de 2011 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................4
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true source of the madness and love in Illyria; for example‚ Malvolio would be one of the funniest characters to the audience‚ however this humour is rooted in the madness of Malvolio’s misfortune. A sense of dark humour is portrayed when Malvolio is tricked into thinking that Olivia loves him and is then imprisoned. The heightening sense of dark humour is portrayed when Malvolio miserably questions why he had to suffer and be “imprisoned‚ kept in a dark house‚ visited by the priest‚ and made
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