Homer‚ Odyssey background) 3. (5 pts) What is the difference between Ancient Greek meter and English meter? Unlike stress-based English meter‚ Latin and Greek meter depends on the length of the vowels in the syllables. A long vowel (_) is twice the length of a short (u). A short vowel has a length of one mora. A mora can be thought of as like an eighth note in music. Greek meter is quantitative: a long mark – represents quantity—a syllable held for a longer period of time. A short mark
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Language and Society <span>The History of English</span> It all started during the fifth century‚ when the Angles‚ the Saxons and the Jutes arrived and occupied Britain that started the history of English. The three of these Germanic tribes crossed the North Sea in order to reach Britain. Germanic invaders entered Britain on the East and South coasts in the fifth century. Map retrieved fromhttp://www.englishclub.com/english-language-history.htm. The earliest people
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phonics instruction focuses children’s attention on noticing letter/sound patterns in the major components of syllables: that is‚ on noticing the letter/sound patterns in initial consonants and consonant clusters and in the rime‚ which consists of the vowel of a syllable plus any following consonants‚ such as -ake‚ -ent‚ -ish‚ -ook (Moustafa‚ 1996). Conventional blending and segmentation instruction improves the ability to manipulate phonemes. When instruction emphasizes phoneme manipulations‚ children
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Introduction All humans are born with a need to communicate. Language is the tool which allows them to do this. It begins very simply with crying sounds used to tell the parents how they are feeling and builds up quickly‚ by the age of 5 they can usually use a huge rane of words‚ put together in complex sentences to describe‚ question‚ discuss‚ express feelings etc. Language has to be learnt. All babies babble in some way‚ even deaf babies. Language development begins at birth – a new mothers
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European languages has increased significantly. English loanwords in particular have become frequent‚ and Japanese words from English roots have proliferated. Japanese is an agglutinative‚ mora-timed language with simple phonotactics‚ a pure vowel system‚ phonemic vowel and consonant length‚ and a lexically significant pitch-accent. Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words‚ and sentence structure is topic–comment. Sentence-final particles are used
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To what extent do we agree that there are differences in ‘male’ and ‘female’ speech? Ever since time began‚ men and women have been perceived differently socially‚ intellectually and emotionally. Men are perceived to be strong‚ dependable‚ responsible‚ dominant and are providers while women are perceived to be fragile‚ nurturers‚ subordinate and compassionate. Men ventured into the jungles with fellow men to hunt for food and made shelter while women gathered vegetables and fruit‚ bore and
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: CONCIET • A conceit is a special kind of metaphor that is extended throughout most of the poem or over several lines. • Authors use it to create striking‚ elaborate comparisons between two seemingly dissimilar objects. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: PERSONIFICATION • A figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to objects or animals. • Authors use it to give an inanimate object or animal a deeper meaning. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: HYPERBOLE • A figure of speech that
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H.P. Lovecraft was capable of engaging his readers by engraining descriptive language into his poetry‚ but he also engaged his readers by creating a persona that was easily relatable. Personas are fictitious characters created by the author to be the speaker of a literary work (Kennedy‚ Gioia‚ 592). Within his hundreds of poems‚ short stories and novels Lovecraft kept up a persona whose life was held in the hands of fate. Cosmic irony is the contrast between the character’s position and the treatment
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accent is used to place emphasis on a word. | Allegory | A description that has a second‚ usually moral meaning. | Alliteration | Is the repetition of initial (at the beginning) CONSONANT sounds (if it’s a vowel repetition‚ you would call it assonance. Assonance includes any repetition of a vowel sound in any part of the word. It usually occurs in the middle of words). | Allusion | Refers to an event from an external content. It is understandable only to those with prior knowledge of the reference
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Appendix Sonnet 18 Shakespeare 1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ 4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ 6 And often is his gold complexion dimmed‚ 7 And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ 8 By chance‚ or nature’s changing course untrimmed: 9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade‚ 10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest‚
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