AWAY TECHNIQUES 1. JUXTAPOSITION Serious circumstances‚ illness and death v/s Humour p. 45 Harry’s comments about Chinese view of death or philosophy v/s the men’s discussion about death 2. LITERARY ALLUSIONS Legend references Bible reference Historical reference Film Reference “Gone with the Wind” 1940 classic English Literature Reference Musical Reference 3. Intertextual References allows for comparisons of similar themes to be drawn between the texts for the purpose
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Crossing the Swamp Throughout "Crossing the Swamp‚" a poem by Mary Oliver‚ many poetic devices and figurative languages are depicted. By using these devices‚ Mary Oliver is able to develop the relationship between the speaker and the swamp. The entirety of the poem is a metaphor of a man’s crisis in life. The first part of the poem‚ or until "into the black‚ slack‚" is dark. This portion depicts the darkness’s of life‚ such as death and the hard ships. The third stanza mentions " here/ is struggle
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(i) Some Class Definitions Gender(s) of worker Commodity Offered Dominant Quality 1. Prostitution is a transaction between the prostitute and the "client" whereby the prostitute performs sexually-related favours to their client and receives payment for doing so. - Woman - Man - One’s service - Absence of negative evaluation 2. Women who have either no other way to earn money who will turn towards a pimp‚ or work on her own‚ and walk around streets‚ trying to find clients who will pay for
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TAGS – Thesaurus of Australian Government Subjects This Thesaurus was developed as a result of a Project known as the Australian Whole of Government High Level Subject Thesaurus Project‚ sponsored by the National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE). The purpose of the Project was to develop a high level thesaurus of subject terms for use by Government agencies‚ which all agencies may use in the AGLS Subject element to describe their resources. AGLS Metadata facilitates discovery and
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Philosophical Analysis 1. Clarificatory Probe: 2.1 Are there vague or ambiguous terms that need to be defined and or clarified? “Vague or Ambiguous Terms” * In dealing with the situation given‚ I had come up that there are terms or words that are not clear or too obscure on me. And these are: * “Jenny became heavy with a child” * “Rheumatic Heart” * “Mitral Valve” * “Medical Predicament” In regards with the ambiguous or vague terms that I’ve encountered
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What is language? We are taught that it is communication. It is the spoken or written words that humans use to converse. There are so many languages and different ways children are taught. Some families move after living in one area for a decent amount of time and have to pick up new languages. I am only familiar with English and could not imagine what it would be like mastering another language like many people can do today. I was curious and wanted to ask some questions with an English Language
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Hello‚ I am Daniel. Welcome to my semiotic analysis of the Opening Credits of “The Last of Us”. First‚ let’s introduce some terms. Semiotics is the study of signs. As defied by Chandler‚ *SHOW IMAGE* “A sign is a meaningful unit which is interpreted as ‘standing for’ something other than itself.” “…the signifier is the form which a sign takes… something which can be seen‚ heard‚ felt‚ smelt or tasted” and the “…signified is the mental concept represented by the signifier”. (Chandler‚ 2013). Denotation
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James Paul Gee defines discourse communities as a way of life‚ which consolidates with language and texts (Gee‚ 274). He goes to say that discourses are used to create meaning to activities or to “get things done or not” (Gee‚ 275). According to Swales‚ there are six characteristics in order to be entitled a discourse community. The characteristics are as following: "[It has] A broadly agreed set of common public goals‚ [It has] mechanisms of intercommunication among its members (such as newsletters
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In the article “Why be normal?”: Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls.” Bucholtz first described what both speech community‚ and community of practice were? According to her definition‚ Speech community was a language-based unit of social analysis used in traditional sociolinguistics research. The community of practice‚ on the other hand‚ was an ethnographic‚ activity-based approach. In her research paper‚ she strongly agreed with the theory of community of practice. The reason
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In the poem “Cross”‚ by Langston Hughes have many different denotations in the title. Denotation is a dictionary meaning of a word. Connotation is a feeling that a word invokes to its literal or primary meaning. There are also many examples of connotation in the poem that Hughes uses. What different denotations does the title have? What connotations are linked to each of them? The title “Cross”‚ has many different denotations including a symbol of a religious belief‚ pass by‚ or an object. The
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