CRITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS PREREADING ● Have I seen this type of text before? ● Who has produced this text? ● Why has this text been written? ● To whom is the text addressed? ● What is the text about? WHILE READING PHASE ONE: to build key linguistic categories to support textual analysis ● Underline the personal pronouns in the text. How many refer to the writer‚ the reader‚ or third persons (people‚ places or things described in the text) ● Verbs in the text. What is the mood of these verbs: imperative
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Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies Stylistic Analysis of Barrack Obama´s Presidential Victory Speech Iveta Vondráková Nitra 2012 Content Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 3 1 Basic characteristics .................................................................................................... 4 1.1 References from the
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the study of dance as an art of body movements. In fact‚ these body movements have some links to society and the historical periods. What‚ how and when individuals performed the dances are important components in understanding dance. Theoretical analysis that is provided by Copeland & Cohen (1983) serves as a basis for comparing two or more societies in that dance has been a mirror of various societies in response to historical‚ political‚ economic‚ and religious events. At an individual level‚ Copeland
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"THE WOOD-PILE": A COMMUNION WITH NATURE Robert Frost ’s poem‚ "The Wood-Pile"‚ focuses on a man who adventures himself in a frozen swamp. Away from home‚ he fears the environment surrounding him. Until a small bird‚ flies ahead of him and draws his attention on a decayed woodpile. This marks a turning point in the poem. The man‚ hypnotized by the wood pile‚ feels more comfortable because he knows humans were here before him. He enters in some sort of communion with nature. In his line by line analysis
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The first aspect of inspiration taken from Filth is the negativity and use of profanity throughout‚ however I found Filth to be so heavily laden with profanity and grotesque descriptions that I felt it became gratuitous. It served the purpose of drawing the reader’s disgust towards Bruce; the main character. I felt as though I would not use such language to quite the same degree because I wanted to create a somewhat likable main character when I came writing the first chapter of my novel. Moving
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Science Fiction Culture and Our Scientific Age Textual Analysis of Passage A from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Caroline: The Unlikely Driving Force Passage A depicts a crucial fragment of Victor’s time at the university of Ingolstadt. Upon his arrival he grows dissatisfied with seemingly unimportant applications of modern science‚ nevertheless‚ his fervor for obtaining scientific mastery and uncovering the arcane secrets of science is revitalized
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VICTORY! “When you walk into the gym you leave everything behind. It’s like a total different world. It’s you second family. We gymnasts spend more time in the gym then with our parents. We do gymnastics not to please our family but to please ourselves.” The day I found out all my training was worth it‚ was at the Glencoe- Silver Lake Gymnastics Invite. I got to this moment by joining gymnastics and making the high school team‚ going to practice every day and giving it my all‚ and all the other
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happened in real as the final witness to and guarantee of this rape narrative. However‚ though in the face of Jon’s effusive‚ near endless‚ apologies‚ Amy says she was not raped rather than simply refuse the apology. Amy basically said that it as a speech acts that does not have her as its object or the intention to apologies as its aim. Throwing out of court Jon’s professed sincerity of apology‚ Amy counters: ‘You didn’t like what you said on the tape John‚ so you came back and phrased it a little
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Chantal Miranda September 5‚ 2012 Block 4 Textual Analysis - ‘The Truman Show’ I want to talk about the audience that is done throughout the movie. There are shots of fans watching the Truman show - Two elderly ladies‚ a Japanese family‚ a bar filled with people‚ and even a man in his bathtub. The different types of people illustrates that the same rules apply to every human being. We easily fall into a routine of watching other people’s successes. It doesn’t really matter to us‚ right
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Analysis on “My wood” By this essay‚ Forster described a series of his associations and psychological changes after buying a wood. He used lively and satirical vocabularies to detail the extent and trends of his psychological changes. When the author wrote about the effects of owning things on people‚ the focus was intentionally put on the psychological effects. Owning property is not like what people image‚ enabling people feel easy‚ contented‚ leisure‚ and open. Instead‚ “it (my wood)
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