A Abominable—thoroughly unpleasant or disagreeable Abscond—leave hurriedly and secretly‚ typically to avoid detection or arrest. Affable— 1. easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable. 2. gentle and gracious. Alexithymia— inability to describe emotions in a verbal manner animadversion— strong criticism; a critical or censorious remark annihilate— 1. to destroy completely; to reduce to nonexistence; to defeat decisively; vanquish. 2. to nullify or render void; abolish. apposite (AP-ah-zit)
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NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COURSE CODE:ENG212 COURSE TITLE:CREATIVE WRITING I ENG212 CREATIVE WRITING I COURSE GUIDE ENG212 CREATIVE WRITING I Course Team Professor Kalu Uka (Developer/Writer) - UNIUYO Prof. A. R. Yesufu (Editor/Prog. Leader) - NOUN Dr. Onyeka Iwuchukwu (Coordinator) - NOUN NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA ii ENG212 National Open University of Nigeria Headquarters 14/16 Ahmadu Bello Way Victoria Island Lagos Abuja Office
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Contents Text Commentaries 2 Text 1: ‘The Butcher’s Shop’ 2 Text 2: ‘Eating Out’ 4 Text 3: ‘The Sweet Menu’ 6 Text 4: ‘Grandpa’s Soup’ 8 Text 5: ‘The Coming of Yams and Mangoes and Mountain Honey’ 10 Text 6: ‘Glory Glory be to Chocolate’ 12 Text 7: ‘Receipt to Make Soup’ 14 Text 8: ‘Beef Stroganoff’ 16 Text 9: Why We All Need to Eat Red Meat 17 Text 10: Tripe
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A SHADY PLOT Question 5-(a): What genre of stories does Jenkins want the narrator to write? Why? Answer 5-(a): Jenkins had always called upon Hallock whenever he wanted a ghost story to be published in his magazine. John’s ghosts were live propositions as Jenkins called them. This time again Jenkins wanted Hallock to come up with another supernatural thriller‚ which would give the readers horrors and that is what the public wanted too. Question 5-(b): Does the narrator like writing ghost stories
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Meaning…………………………………………………….14 Stylistic Differentiation of the Vocabulary…………………………………………………………………..16 Literary Stratum of Words. Colloquial Words…..…………………………………………………………..16 Lexical Stylistic Devices…………………………………………………………………………………….23 Metaphor. Metonymy. Synecdoche. Play on Words. Irony. Epithet…………………………………………23 Hyperbole. Understatement. Oxymoron. ……………………………………………………………………23 CHAPTER III. SYNTACTICAL LEVEL..................................…………………………………………38 Main Characteristics of the Sentence.
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Gillian Lazar LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE TEACHING A guide for teachers and trainers {v}Contents Thanks page viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction xii 1 Using literature in the language classroom: 1 The issues 1.1 What is literature? 1 1.2 What is distinctive about the language of literature? 5 1.3 The reader and the text 8 1.4 Literary competence and the language classroom 11 1.5 Why use literature in the language classroom
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LITERATURE “Literature is the mirror of the society” The adage above is one of the most commonly used definitions of Literature… cliché as it may sound‚ still‚ it is true. Literature traces the past‚ mimics the present‚ and sometimes‚ it also predicts the future. A piece of literature describes a milieu‚ a collection of it may describe an epoch‚ and the great ones determine what will be. Great as it sounds; literature’s power is still under the control of the human mind. A well written
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UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT (Abstract) BA Programme in English under Choice based credit semester systemSchool of Distance Education/ Private mode- Syllabus in tune with Choice based credit semester System School of Distance Education regulations-approved implemented with effect from 2011 admissionOrders issued ……………………………………………………………………… GENERAL AND ACADEMIC BRANCHIV‘B’ SECTION No: GAIV/B2/9842/2010 Dated‚ Calicut University. P.O 01.09.2012 Read: 1.UO No GAIV/J2/3601/08 dated 17
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Theme for English B- Langston Hughes By Dania Dobbs in CSEC Revision Stuff (Files) · Edit Doc In his poem “Theme for English B‚” a response to an assignment given by his class instructor‚ Langston Hughes writes about the differences between himself and his instructor’s race. He talks about being the only “colored” person in his class and expresses the feeling of being similar to other races‚ primarily “white”‚ and yet different throughout the poem. Although he details the commonalities between
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Fiction writers as a species tend to be oglers. They tend to lurk and to stare. The minute fiction writers stop moving‚ they start lurking‚ and stare. They are born watchers. They are viewers. They are the ones on the subway about whose nonchalant stare there is something creepy‚ somehow. Almost predatory. This is because human situations are writers ’ food. Fiction writers watch other humans sort of the way gapers slow down for car wrecks: they covet a vision of themselves as witnesses. But fiction
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