Literature: Reading‚ Reacting‚ Writing‚ 5th Edition Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell Table of Contents Preface 1. Understanding Literature Imaginative Literature Conventional Themes The Literary Canon Luisa Valenzuela‚ “All about Suicide” Wole Soyinka‚ “Telephone Conversation” Thinking Critically Interpreting Literature Evaluating Literature The Function of Literary Criticism Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism 2. Reading and Writing About Literature
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Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine Kharkiv National University of Economics Department of Foreign Languages Public relations: an essential part of communication and business systems Contents: Introduction……………………………………………………………………….4 Part 1 Conception of public relations………………………………………………....5 1. History of development……………………………………………………….5 2. Definition of public relations……………………………………………….…6 3. Main objectives and goals of PR……………………………………………
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3 1 Semiotic Analysis I face this assignment—explaining semiotics and showing how it can be applied to television and popular culture to those who know little or nothing about the subject—with a certain amount of apprehension. I’m not sure whether semiotics is a subject‚ a movement‚ a philosophy‚ or a cultlike religion. I do know that there is a large and rapidly expanding literature on the subject and that many of the writings of semioticians are difficult to understand and highly technical
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1. Style and Stylistics. Language‚ speech and text. No one knows for sure what it is. The scope of problems stylistics is to solve‚ its very object and its tasks are open to discussion up to the present day‚ regardless of the fact that it goes back to ancient rhetoric and poetics. According to I.R. Galperin‚ the term STYLE is presumed (by various authors) to apply to the following fields of investigation: the aesthetic function of language; (reference to works of art‚ that is of poetry and
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Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21‚ 1899 – July 2‚ 1961) was an American author and journalist. Hemingway began his writing career as a reporter. Journalistic writing.When he became a writer of short stories‚ he retained this minimalistic style‚ focusing on surface elements without explicitly discussing the underlying themes. His style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction‚ Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s‚ and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in
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4 Stylistic Features of Language Speech communication employs a host of expressive means ranging from linguistic to paralinguistic and extralinguistic features. It is the natural language‚ however‚ whose systematic variation on all levels of its structure (phonology‚ morphology‚ lexicology and syntax) offers the widest possibilities of suiting its use to fit communicative functions of discourses in various contexts. Thus linguistic expressive means‚ which are systematically identified and cetegorized
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100 Words for Facial Expressions 1. Absent: preoccupied 2. Agonized: as if in pain or tormented 3. Alluring: attractive‚ in the sense of arousing desire 4. Appealing: attractive‚ in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest 5. Beatific: see blissful 6. Bilious: ill-natured 7. Black: angry or sad‚ or see hostile 8. Bleak: see grim and hopeless 9. Blinking: surprise‚ or lack of concern 10. Blissful: showing a state of happiness or divine contentment 11. Blithe: carefree‚ lighthearted‚ or heedlessly
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Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: Metaphor and Values as Captivating Strategies to Celebrate a Presidency M. PILAR GUITART ESCUDERO Coordinadora Área Lengua-Lingüística Hispanic Studies Program University of Virginia VA‚ EEUU C/ Ramón Gordillo‚ 4 46010 Valencia E-mail: pilar.guitart@uvavalencia.org Tel. +34 96 3691 485 BARACK OBAMA’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS: METAPHOR AND VALUES AS CAPTIVATING STRATEGIES TO CELEBRATE A PRESIDENCY ABSTRACT: Barack Obama’s rhetorical style is broadly acknowledged to be
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GENERAL NOTIONS 1. Kinds of Literature Literature can be subdivided into various kinds according to various criteria. It can exist in oral (folklore) or written form; literary speech can be prosaic or poetic. Literature can be divided into fiction and non-fiction. Non-fiction is a prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people‚ places‚ events. The main forms/genres of non-fiction are character sketch‚ journal‚ letters‚ memoirs‚ biography‚ essay etc. Fiction is
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POETRY POEM. N. AN ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS WRITTEN OR SPOKEN‚ TRADITIONALLY A RHYTHMICAL COMPOSITION‚ SOMETIMES RHYMED‚ EXPRESSING EXPERIENCES‚ IDEAS‚ OR EMOTIONS IN A STYLE MORE CONCENTRATED‚ IMAGINATIVE‚ AND POWERFUL THAN THAT OF ORDINARY SPEECH OR PROSE: SOME POEMS ARE IN METER‚ SOME IN FREE VERSE. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – ROBERT FROST PROSE…words in their best order. POETRY…the best words in the best order. – SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with
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