When I was a little girl‚ my life was very much E. B. White’s story‚ “Once More to the Lake.” In White story‚ he describes the town as being always the same‚ even years later when he takes his own son there‚ “-the waitresses were the same country girls‚ there having been no passage of time” (White 203). Like White‚ my grandfather would always take us camping and for many‚ many years nothing changed about the lake in Kirby Landing. There were always the same pine trees that needed to be cut the year
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This week I am writing about the first reading assignment‚ “Once More to the Lake” by E. B. White. I chose this reading item to write about as I was able to easily relate to spending summers camping outdoors‚ fishing and boating. The author did a great job enhancing his writing by adding detail to his story. I was able to follow along easy and too felt the connection of his past time passion for being with his dad and enjoying nature. The author’s technical style of using hypens and semicolons
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Stylistic Devices 1 IMAGERY Simile (Vergleich): An explicit comparison between two things which are basically quite different using words such as like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. (Wordsworth) Metaphor (Metapher): A comparison between two things which are basically quite differ ent without using like or as. While a simile only says that one thing is like another‚ a metaphor says that one thing is another. (adj. metaphorical) All the
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CAN-CAN The text is head-lined CAN-CAN. The author of the text is Arturo Vivante. ARTURO VIVANTE was born in Rome and grew up in Italy‚ England‚ and Canada. He earned a medical doctorate from Rome University in 1949‚ but left his medical practice in the mid-1950s when his short stories began to be published. Now he lives in the United States where he has been a fuul-time writer for over thirty years. He has published two novels “A googly babe” (1951) and “Doctor Giovanni” (1969)‚ as well
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Summary: In “Here is New York”‚ an essay by E.B. White‚ in the first paragraph‚ White classifies the residents of New York in three different categories‚ In the next two paragraphs White goes on to explain in interesting details that the events that happened on September eleventh in New York were horrific‚ but because of the residents it stayed strong. All the residents may fall under a different categorization‚ but because of them‚ New York stayed strong. Paraphrase: In the first paragraph of White’s
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“Applying” conversation analysis in applied linguistics: Evaluating dialogue in English as a second language textbooks1 JEAN WONG Abstract This article examines telephone dialogues in English as a second language (ESL) textbooks against the backdrop of what is reported about real telephone interaction in conversation analysis research. An analysis of eight textbooks reveals that the fit between what conversation analysts say about natural telephone conversation and the examples found in textbooks
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William Gibson has a quote which says "Time moves in one direction‚ memory in another". This quote is especially evident in "Once More to the Lake" by E.B White and "On Going Home" by Joan Didion. In both of these personal narratives‚ the authors struggle with the overwhelming sensation of yearning for the past. In an effort to conquer the nostalgic sensation‚ they both visit a place that is very dear to their hearts. However‚ as the authors soon figured out‚ nothing stays the same forever.
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for the 4th year students COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS of Text 1 “Doctor in the House” by R.Gordon Developed and compiled by Zhikhareva N.A.‚ Bezhinar I.S. Assignments in Interpretation I. Plot and Plot structure Read more: (Borisova – pp.10-16) Study Supplement 2 and answer the following questions: 1. What type of conflict is the
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Name: Sajid Aziz‚ Roll no: AU515926 MA TEFL‚ Course Code: 5666 Assignment no: 2‚ Spring‚ 2013 Research Project A Stylistic Analysis of the Poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” By: William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow So much depends Upon A red wheel Barrow Glazed with rain Water Beside the white Chickens Introduction Oppose practicing the learned rhetoric in poetry writing‚ Williams finds his subjects in such homely items as wheelbarrows. He believes that
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The answers will follow and will go beyond the straightforward brief answer to explore how the literary and linguistic devices used in the poems contribute to meaning. It is in writing about these effects that the real business of critical analysis will really start. Poem 1: The Rainbow by William Wordsworth Let’s begin by looking closely at this very famous short poem by William Wordsworth. It’s usually called The Rainbow although it was actually never given a title by Wordsworth himself
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