contexts Elliptical Editing- Makes screen time shorter than story time by cutting out unnecessary actions; Genre- Way of categorising a media text according to its form‚ style and content Hybridity- More than one genre in one media text (Rom-Com) Intertextuality- A post modern term to describe the way we understand a post modern text by its relation to other texts. One text is referring to another. Mass Audience- Mass media denotes a section of the media specifically designed to reach a large audience
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Markus Zusack: The Book Thief Teaching suggestions Pre-Reading: • Book covers Students talk about their expectations by looking at the title and the various book covers. Suggestion: one cover per group‚ then exchange with other groups. • Prologue activity Hand out prologue without title‚ read in class (together or silently)‚ students invent their own title‚ discuss questions: - Who’s telling the story? - What do you expect from a book which has Death as a narrator? - What’s
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Michael ondaatjes in the skin of a lion with its pastiore of memories and fragmentations is a unique piece of literature that cones together to form an integrated story. Through the richness of its eclectic quality the text exemplifies that not every text has its use-by date‚ as the novels textual integrity can not be denied by any generation‚ past present or future. The novel embodies ideologies from different headings‚ Marxist‚ Post Colonial and Postmodernist. Different meanings reverberate
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speaker’s strong self-esteem and self-worth. The speaker begins with the analogy‚ “Round like the letter ‘C’‚ And ten thousand lunges‚ Has made it rounder‚ But not smaller‚ And thats just fine.” The speaker compares her butt to the letter “C” through intertextuality. The simile creates an efficacious image in the readers’ minds‚ as they can associate the curve in the letter “C” with the contour of the speaker’s butt. The choice in diction and expressions makes the tone of the text witty and amusing.
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to a home; though‚ these two works share much more than just a similar protagonist‚ setting‚ and plot. The epigraph that opens George Elliot’s Silas Marner is from the poem Michael by William Wordsworth; this indicates a very high degree of intertextuality between the two works‚ in the elements of the recurring motif of nature‚ and the strong symbolic representations of light. Nature in Silas Marner represents everything good and pure and wholesome. Elliot idealizes a simple natural life. We
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being one that is as lost as the speaker‚ and that will never betray to the world Prufrock’s confessions. However‚ in Prufrock’s world‚ no such sympathetic figure exists and he must therefore be content with silent reflection. The technique of intertextuality is used with this epigraph. The positioning of another text within Eliot’s poem adds another complex dimension to the poem. The Prufrock suffers by not having that ideal person that can listen to him‚ this human suffering results in his loneliness
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ENG 4U January 25‚ 2013 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutterson and Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones are both remarkable novels that are praised by critics everywhere. Mister Pip revolves around a 13 year old girl named Matilda living on a tropical island in Papa New Guinea that is torn apart by war. After many of the villagers flee the island‚ Mr. Watts‚ a mysterious white man becomes the children’s school teacher with nothing more than a copy of “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens. The world
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“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice”‚ is a well said quote by Steve Jobs that is thoroughly connected with the aspects of identity. Also “The Immigrant”‚ a poem by Afzal Moolla has the theme of a diminished identity running throughout the whole poem‚ whereas similarly‚ “Big World” by Tim Winton has the aspects of a façade identity. Studying these texts has unfolded my understanding and knowledge about identity. Moolla uses highly a negative tone in the poem as
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by war‚ Owen also condemns those who send young men to war by false propaganda. Propaganda posters and media promoted idealistic notions of patriotism‚ duty‚ adventure and glory to tell the lie that ‘Ducle et decorum est’. (DEDE) the ironic intertextuality of the title from the ancient Roman poet‚ Horace’s work (DEDE) is translated from Latin to English to mean that” its sweet and honourable to die for one’s country”. Owen clearly dismisses this notion in (DEDE) .Owen uses techniques to expose the
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war. Around the same time‚ Dave Chappelle had his own show on the Comedy Central Network‚ the Chappelle Show. On this show‚ Chappelle would express his views on many issues through satire and humorous exaggerations. David Galvez‚ the writer of Intertextuality and Understanding Chappelle’s Comedy states‚ “In this seven-minute sketch‚ Chappelle plays the part of President George W. Bush portrayed as a negatively stereotypical representation of an African-American.” The use of exaggerations and fallacies
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