thought that if he pretended to be asleep she would not disturb him.7. But when she had passed him half a dozen times she stopped in front of him andstood quite still. 8. Though he kept his eyes closed he knew that she was looking athim." (Somerset Maugham)This paragraph consists of eight sentences‚ all more or less independent. The first threesentences‚ however‚ show a considerable degree of semantic interdependence. This can be inferred from the
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The Story Alan Austen‚ a young man who is passionately in love with a young woman who is indifferent to him‚ comes to the establishment of a mysterious old man who deals in magic potions. Austen has been told that he can buy a potion that will make the object of his affections fall madly in love with him. The old man shows little interest in the financial profit to be gained from selling Alan a love potion. Instead‚ he devotes most of his sales talk to recommending a potion that he calls a spot remover
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State Pedagogical University “Ion Creangă” Faculty of Foreign Languages Essay On the topic: „Types of atmosphere in O. Henry’s short stories” Written by Student of Group 403 Specailty – English/Italian Druță Margarita Verified by: English Lecturer Plescenco Galina Chisinau 2014 The topic of this research goes around a very interesting and useful topic: “the atmosphere”. I chose this topic because the atmosphere is one of those leading factors which form the reader a certain
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Doris Lessing is a British writer who was born in 1919 in Kermanshah‚ Iran. She published her first novel The Grass is Singing in England in 1950. The title of this novel was taken from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. This title is included in these lines: In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint moonlight‚ the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves‚ about the chapel There is the empty chapel‚ only the wind’s home. It has no windows‚ and the door swings‚ Dry bones can harm no
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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life‚” (W. Somerset Maugham). This quote illustrates a main theme in Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip‚ the influence of literature. Mister Pip is set in the Solomon Island of Bougainville‚ during the 1990s‚ when the island was at war with its government. The protagonist‚ thirteen year old‚ Matilda Laimo‚ lives with her mother‚ Dolores‚ and teacher‚ Mr. Watts. Through Mr. Watts’ reading of Great Expectations
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КУДИНОВА АНАСТАСИЯ 512 TEXT INTERPRETATION: "FLOTSAM AND JETSAM" BY W. S. MAUGHAM GIST/PLOT This short story is told in the 3rd person‚ this is the third person narration. The story took place in Borneo‚ in the Malay states. The story begins with the description of the setting in the Grange ’s house. Everything betokened poverty there. The dining-room was dingy. Norman Grange was a rubber-planter and after walking over the estate and checking that everything was done properly‚ he and his wife
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Literary analysis THE STORY Mr. Know- All is a story with a moral lesson. The subject is simple. A rich Britishmerchant of Oriental origin‚ called Mr. Kelada‚ meets a group of Westerners on a shipsailing across the Pacific Ocean. His cabin-mate‚ a British citizen who is the nameless narrator of the story‚ dislikes Mr. Kelada even before he sees him. However‚ at theend of the pride and reputation to save an American ladys marriage.As a result‚ he earns the respect of the narrator.story Mr. Kelada
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Abnormal Psychology Fictional Character Analysis Hannibal Lecter from “Hannibal” series Character Description: Hannibal Lecter is the primary character in the “Hannibal” movie series and will be the subject of psychiatric evaluation for this paper. The series is comprised of 4 films (“Hannibal Rising”‚ “Silence of the Lambs”‚ “Red Dragon”‚ “and Hannibal”) which follow Lecter’s life from youth to adulthood. Lecter is a white male of average height and weight; he is a brilliant doctor and exceptionally
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1.The meaning of climax and anticlimax The Greek word climax means “ladder”; the Latin gradatio means “ascent‚ climbing up”. In climax we deal with strings of synonyms or at least semantically related words belonging to the same thematic group.[4‚ p. 155] According to Efimov L. P.‚ climax (or Gradation) – is the figure of unequality‚ which consists in arranging the utterance so that each subsequent component of it increases significance‚ importance or emotional tension of narration.[1‚ p. 69]
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A Constitution is a collection of rules that ensures a country is running efficiently. It guarantees that the government are governing correctly and that the rights of individual citizens are being protected. Constitutions can be found in different forms. They can be written or unwritten‚ rigid or flexible‚ federal or unitary in structure. Our UK constitution is unwritten however it possesses strong core constitutional principles‚ such as parliamentary supremacy‚ a responsible government‚ the rule
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