PLE0042 English for Law Foundation in Law ONLINE NOTES Academic Essay WHAT IS AN ACADEMIC ESSAY? An academic essay is a written text‚ rarely fewer than 500 words or more than 5000 words in length‚ on a topic related to a course that is taught at a school‚ college‚ or university. Given the number and variety of courses offered‚ there are thousands of possible topics for an academic essay. Good academic writing has a clear beginning‚ middle‚ and end; is written in Standard English; and
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beauty 2. Intellectual Values – stimulates thinking 3. Suggestiveness – associated with the emotional aspect of the literary piece 4. Spiritual Values – brings out the understanding of moral values that makes us better persons 5. Permanence – makes literature endure the test of time 6. Universality – appeals to all races‚ place and time 7. Style – author’s manner of putting words together on the page April 12‚ 2013 * Discuss the basic concepts in literature * Determine
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Directions: For each question‚ select the best answer from among the choices given and click on the corresponding radio button. 1 | Although cheetahs are successful hunters‚ they are ------- as defenders of their catch‚ for they allow about half of their kills to be snatched by more aggressive animals. (A) | restless | (B) | conscientious | (C) | loathsome | (D) | prodigious | (E) | timid | | 2 | The author’s use of copious detail‚ though intended to ------- the reader’s
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Figure of speech A figure of speech is the use of a word or words diverging from its usual meaning. It can also be a special repetition‚ arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning‚ or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it‚ as in idiom‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ hyperbole‚ or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. However‚ clarity may also suffer from their use‚ as any figure of speech introduces
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To a Skylark By Percy Bysshe Shelley Hail to thee‚ blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert‚ That from Heaven‚ or near it‚ Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest‚ And singing still dost soar‚ and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning
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feature of society. Allegory of Vanity uses connotated imagery to symbolize vanity and the transience of beauty. Skulls scattered among the painting symbolize the inevitable event of death. By specifically including skulls‚ the carriers of the face‚ it represents the loss of physical beauty and the transience of physicality as a whole. The large‚ extravagant clock surrounded by riches is another element of transience as worldly riches will not follow you past death‚ though some hold them in highest regard
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more misery and sorrow when the king is murdered upon his homecoming. The watchman leaves to tell Clytaemnestra the news of her husband’s imminent return. 2). 1st Choral Ode: the purpose of the chorus is to direct the audience‚ provide a time lapse and to praise the gods. In the first choral ode the chorus establishes
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allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word‚ such as the repetition of b sounds in Keats’s “beaded bubbles winking at the brim” (“Ode to a Nightingale”) or Coleridge’s “Five miles meandering in a mazy motion (“Kubla Khan”). A common use for alliteration is emphasis. It occurs in everyday speech in such phrases as “tittle-tattle‚” “bag and baggage‚” “bed and board‚” “primrose path‚” and “through
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Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent T. S. Eliot is a well-known critic‚ poet and writer who has done a great amount of literary work. Eliot has his own views for judging and analyzing poets and poetry. In "Tradition and The Individual Talent"‚ Eliot has given some significant ideas‚ which are essential to understand in order to understand Eliot’s perceptions regarding poetry and poets. T.S Eliot’s critical essays are the one‚ which cause a mind to think over a situation‚ he has described
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transition from innocence to experience‚ the transience of time and the inevitability of death. Due to the universality of these ideas‚ they are engaging and they resonate with contemporary audiences. Thus‚ these poems have prompted me to gain an understanding of the concerns explored throughout all of Harwood’s poetry. Harwood’s ‘The Violets’ evokes a strong response in the reader of the persona’s transition from innocence to experience and the transience of time through her use of natural imagery
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