All throughout our lives we make choices. Some are rather inconsequential‚ such as which cereal we decide to eat for breakfast in a particular morning‚ whereas others can leave a profound impact on our lives‚ such as which university we attend and get a degree from. These important decisions can lead to anything from dire consequences to a beneficial future‚ and the person making the decision cannot know the results until they take the risk and head down the path they choose. Robert Frost’s poem
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Setting and Background The setting of "My Last Duchess‚" a highly acclaimed 1842 poem by Robert Browning‚ is the palace of the Duke of Ferrara on a day in October 1564. Ferrara is in northern Italy‚ between Bologna and Padua‚ on a branch of the Po River. The city was the seat of an important principality ruled by the House of Este from 1208 to 1598. The Este family constructed an imposing castle in Ferrara beginning in 1385 and‚ over the years‚ made Ferrara an important center of arts and learning
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Does true love really exist or is it just a fantasy chased by many idealists? The question should be asked‚ what is love? Love can be categorised into the following four categories‚ namely: “Filios” which is love for your family‚ “Storge’ ” which is love for your friends‚ “Eros” which is a romantic love between two persons‚ and “Agape’ ” which is love for your God. Many people think they have discovered true love and in the end they are disappointed in hatred. Very few people go through life
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Chapter 3: The Sounds of English. Consonants and Vowels. An Articu-latory Classification and Description. Acoustic Correlates 3.1. Consonants and Vowels. Traditional distinctions. Chomsky and Halle’s SPE definition 3.2. Criteria for consonant classification. Vocal cord vibration. Sonority 3.3. Manner of articulation. Plosives. Fricatives. Affricates 3.4. Sonorants. The Approximants: glides and liquids 3.5. Oral and nasal articulation 3.6. Force of articulation 3.7. Place of articulation 3.8. The
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and instead uses simplicity to elaborate the story. As Frost matures‚ his poetry becomes more structured in an identifiable‚ categorical style with systematic stanzas and perfectly paired couplets. Some verses in “The Census-Taker” carry unstressed and stressed syllables‚ which echo the seemingly similar attempt in “The Wood Pile” at flawed iambic pentameter. In addition‚ Frost places himself in the poem‚ as the sharp first person narrative‚ simply passing through a nearby wood to perform his job
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Owens uses another literary technique‚ diction‚ to reveal his opinion about war. The first stanza consists of eight lines with the rhyme scheme ABABCDCD‚ and the meter is iambic pentameter. The first syllable of each pair is unstressed‚ while the second syllable is stressed. The first two lines of the poem demonstrate this purposefully composed pattern. The purpose of this stanza is to not only introduce fatigued‚ tired soldiers but also to set the scene of a battlefield with war-weary soldiers on
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ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 1 POEM ANALYSIS REASON FOR CHOOSING THIS POEM I choose this poem ‘if’ by Rudyard Kipling because when I read this poem it reminds me of when I was a little girl how it was difficult to grow up. This poem brings back memories. Back in that time‚ my family wasn’t a well-to-do family. It makes me remember how hard it is to do things on my own and it took me a very long time to be independent and start to mature. It also make me think how much farther
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texts in which ideas are personified and a story is told to express some general truth. Examples: Truth‚ Vice‚ Virtue‚ Justice. Alliteration: An alliteration is a repetition of sounds (consonants) at the beginning of neighbouring words or of stressed syllables within such words‚ e.g. ”fingers the small size of small spades.” Purpose: rhythm and stress. Allusion: An allusion is a direct or indirect reference to some well-known historical person or event‚ saying‚ proverb‚ line or sentence
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The Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of Republic of Uzbekistan Uzbekistan State World Languages University English Phonetics and Phonology Department II-English Philology. Course paper On Syllable theories Done by: Vingurskiy Nikita Group 340 “A”‚ 3 course Checked by: Senior teacher Shatunova A.S. Tashkent 2009. Plan I. Introduction II Body Chapter 1: “Theories of
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THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER SPECIAL EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages Course paper On the topic: Intonation system of English in the process of historical development Done by: Scientific adviser:______________ Almaty 2012 Contents INTRODUCTION 1. Intonation in English 1.1 Intonation: approaches‚ definitions‚ functions 1.2 Components of intonation and the structure of English
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