Teacher’s Guide for Worksheet One The structural and linguistic features of the types of writing introduced in Worksheet One are defined and summarized as follows. This is just a guide to some typical and common features and is not meant to be an exhaustive list. Features may also vary in different communicative contexts. I. Informal Letter A letter is ‘a missive communication in writing‚ addressed to a person or body of persons; an epistle’ (From Oxford English Dictionary OED online. URL:
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Cyber-Romance Rachel Ivancic Thomas University Cyber Romances or social relationships are connections developed by two or more people involving constant communication and interaction. The majority of people‚ who are involved in online romances‚ usually end up exploring these ventures offline. The budding of these interactions are when people find new contacts after accessing the net and social network‚ cf. (Wellman & Gulia‚ 1999). New relationships that occur online are often considered
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Question 1.The Merchant of Venice: A Romantic Comedy From Insights‚ 1992 The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies‚ probably written in 1596 and 1597‚ and forms one of a group of such comedies‚ along with The Two Gentlemen of Verona‚ As You Like It‚ andTwelfth Night. Romantic comedy was a popular and much-preferred type in Elizabethan theatre‚ and all the trappings of such are present in The Merchant of Venice. First‚ the romantic involvement is represented not by one couple
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In her definitive A Natural History of the Romance Novel Pamela Regis contends that “not every love story is a romance novel.” (50) That classification‚ she argues‚ is reserved only for those love stories that contain the eight formal elements she identifies as prerequisites for the genre. Chief among them is the element of betrothal––or‚ as it is more colloquially understood‚ the “happy ending.” When considering Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt‚ there is some room for debate as to whether
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Pitcher‚ confidential clerk in the office of Harvey Maxwell‚ broker‚ allowed a look of mild interest and surprise to visit his usually expressionless countenance when his employer briskly entered at half past nine in company with his young lady stenographer. With a snappy "Good-morning‚ Pitcher‚" Maxwell dashed at his desk as though he were intending to leap over it‚ and then plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him. The young lady had been Maxwell’s stenographer
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In his sonnets‚ poet and playwright William Shakespeare creates a romantic tone when describing how romantic relationships are affected over time. Vivian Diller’s article “Is love really Blind?” provides research to suggest that romantic relationships are affected over time because people tend to lose physical attraction to their mate. After reading both Shakespeare’s and Diller’s works one can conclude that time has a negative effect on love because people’s feelings change about their mate overtime
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can be considered a tragic hero A tragic hero is a character that holds a high position in society but is not perfect. Aristotle discusses ideas of a tragic hero in his book of literary theory titles Poetics. He believes that although a tragic hero is great‚ he or she possesses a tragic flaw that contributes to his downfall. However‚ this downfall may not be pure loss‚ but brings attention and awareness of the hero. According to Aristotle’s description of a tragic hero‚ Selena Quintanilla
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METRICAL ROMANCES OF THE MIDDLE AGES The very word ’romance’ conjures up to our mind visions of battlemented castles‚ of fair ladies pining in the enchanters’ castles and waiting for their brave knights to come to rescue them‚ of knights riding forth in search of gloriously impossible adventures.The Middle English romances were each a story of adventure‚fictitious and frequently marvellous or super-natural‚ of tender love making‚ of tournaments and cavalcades. While reading these romances‚ we see
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Impact of Romance Fiction on Society Humans are a sentimental race‚ they require love to live a fulfilling life. Love stories like Romeo Juliet‚ etc. have inspired us. Romantic Fiction has been in existence since times immemorial. The popular romance novel is a story of two individuals with emphasis on romantic love and their subsequent relationship‚ complete with a happy ending. Oscar Wilde’s famous words “Life imitates art‚” forces us to acknowledge that fiction shapes our lives. We are taught
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Discuss the choice of genre; comedy or tragedy? In this assignment I will discuss the choice of genre; comedy or tragedy? In the play Death of a Salesman (2000) by Arthur Miller and the movie east is east (1999) by Ayub Khan-Din. I will suggest Willy Loman within the play Death of a Salesman (2000) actually is the architect of his own failure. I will put forward Loman’s ideal of the American Dream and show while he strived to achieve this goal‚ this ultimately proved to be the cause of his demise
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