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    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love  by Christopher Marlowe  1599Come live with me and be my love‚  And we will all the pleasures prove  That valleys‚ groves‚ hills‚ and fields  Woods or steepy mountain yieldsAnd we will sit upon the rocks‚  Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks  By shallow rivers to whose falls  Melodious birds sing madrigals.And I will make thee beds of roses  And a thousand fragrant posies‚  A cap of flower‚ and a kirtle  Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;A gown

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    Anglo Saxon Heroic Poetry

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    modern readers most closely into contact with the Germanic origins of the invaders of Britain. This is written in Old English or Anglo-Saxon. The verse used is usually alliterative and stressed‚ is without any rhyme. Each line contains four stressed syllables with a varying number of unstressed ones. The stressed alliterative verse of AngloSaxon poetry is clearly the product of an oral court minstrelsy – being intended to be recited by the scop who frequented the halls of kings and chiefs and sometimes

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    FALLIN AND RISING OF TONES

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    change in the pitch of the voice. The pitch falls a little from stress to stress. Then‚ it finally falls at the last meaningful syllable. The pitch remains low for the remaining unstressed syllables. In the rising tone‚ the pitch rises at the last meaningful syllable. It continues to rise for the remaining unstressed syllables. STATEMENTS We can use the falling tone in most normal statements. When you are making a normal statement about which you are sure about what you are saying we use the

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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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    Analysis of She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron Posted on August 3‚ 2011  In Lord Byron’s poem‚ She Walks in Beauty‚ the poet praises a woman’s beauty. Yet‚ the poet not only focuses on the external appearance of the woman but extends his glorification onto the internal aspect of her‚ making the woman more divine and praiseworthy. In this analysis‚ we will first discuss the meaning of the poem‚ and later consider some of the poetic mechanisms and the form that the poet used to make his poem richer

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    The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of neigh­ bouring words. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Metre  (Metrum): A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables within a line of a poem. Iambic  metre (Jambus): An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (– ’–): The way a crow (Krähe) / Shook down on me / The dust of snow / From a hemlock tree (Frost) Onomatopoeia  (Lautmalerei): The use of words which imitate

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    The Phonology of African American Vernacular English Table of contents 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………….………...…….1 2. African American Vernacular English (AAVE)……………………….………...….…2 3.1. Vowel phonemes of AAVE……………………………………………………...……2 3.2. Consonant phonemes of AAVE…………………………………………………...…..3 3.3. Syllable structure…………………………………………………….…………….......6 3.4. Prosodic features……………………………………………………….…………...…7 3. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………

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    Literture Final Exam Notes

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    That this one favor you should not refuse me.” 2. Alliteration: the repitition of initial consonant sounds in accented syllables ex from Beowulf: “up from his swamland‚ sliding silently” 3. Assonance: the repitition of vowel sounds in unrhymed‚ stressed syllables Ex: “batter these ramparts” 4. Caesuras: rhythmic breaks in the middle of lines. Where the reciter could pause for breath 5. old English: ex: the original telling of Beowulf was in the Old English language‚ spoken by the Anglo-Saxons

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    Vowels: Cardinal Vowel

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    Chapter 4: The Vowels of English. An Articulatory Classification. Acoustic Correlates. The Description and Distribution of English Monophthongs and Diphthongs 4.1. The Vowels. Criteria for Classification 4.2. The Cardinal Vowel Charts 4.3. English Vowels. The description and distribution of English monophthongs and diphthongs A. English simple vowels a. English front vowels b. English back vowels c. English central vowels B. English diphthongs a. Centring diphthongs b. Diphthongs to /w/ c. Diphthongs

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    Intonation Patterns

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    Table of Contents Glossary………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………… 3 Intonation Patterns of Language Functions in English……………………………….. 5 Intonation Patterns of Language Functions in Romanian……………………………. 9 Intonation Patterns of Language Functions in Spanish………………………………. 12 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………….. 15 Reference………………………………………………………………………………… 16 Glossary Emphatic Uttered‚ or to be uttered‚ with emphasis; strongly expressive

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