Literary genres Literary genres are determined by literary technique‚ tone‚ content and by critics’ definitions of the genres. A literary genre is a category‚ type or class of literature. Major forms of literature The major forms of Literature are: * Novel * Poem * Drama * Short story * Novella Various forms of literature are written in and further categorized by genre. Sometimes forms are used interchangeably to define genre. However‚ a form‚ e.g.‚ a novel or a poem‚ can
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metrical pattern of this poem is iambic pentameter‚ ten syllables in each line‚ an unstressed and a stressed syllable in sequence five times. Ten of the 14 lines are written in regular iambic pentameter‚ there are substitutions in four lines: Line 4 and line 7 both end in an amphibrach‚ that is an extra unstressed syllable in the last foot (“for flowers”‚ “in showers”). Whereas the other lines all end in stressed syllables‚ these two lines have a falling pattern in the end. This falling pattern
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process of Echo’s grieving. The first line consists mostly of spondees‚ which are groups of two stressed syllables. The following words are all stressed in the first line: slow‚ slow‚ fresh‚ fount‚ keep‚ time‚ salt and tears. These continuous spondees slow down the reader as he/she reads through the poem. This places an emphasis on each stressed word. In addition‚ the use of a pyrrhic‚ two continuous unstressed syllables‚ emphasizes the following spondee: salt tears. Line 10 also contains all spondees
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(4 –Heptameter (7 feet) feet) Poetry Terms • Rhythm – patterns of beats‚ or stresses in a poem. • Foot - two syllables in a line create a foot – Iambic: unstressed‚ stressed (Again; repeat) – Anapestic: unstressed‚ unstressed‚ stressed (on the beach) – Trochaic: stressed‚ unstressed (wonder‚ older) – Dactylic: stress‚ unstressed‚ unstressed (wonderful) – Spondaic: stress‚ stress (space walk‚ heartbreak) Poetry Terms • Stanza: formal division of lines in a poem (paragraph) –Couplet (2 lines)
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The Use of Prose and Verse in Romeo&Juliet Table of Contents page 1 Introduction 3 2 Technical terms 3 2.1 Metre 3 2.2 Foot 3 2.3 Enjambment and End-stopped Line 4 2.4 Rhyme 4 2.5 Rhyme Scheme 5 3 Prose 5 4 Verse 5 4.1 Rhymed verse 6 4.1.1 Sonnet 6 4.2 Blank Verse 6 4.3 Free Verse 7 5 Verse and Prose in Romeo and Juliet 7 5.1 Functions of the Use of Prose 7 5.1.1 Function of Variation 7 5.1.2 Class-Differing Function 8 5.1.3 Empathy-Creating Function 8 5.1.4 Realness-Creating
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of the waves in the sea; the pattern of unstressed/stressed/unstressed/stressed syllables in every line is very similar to the up and down undulation of a wave. The shift from the iambic rhythm in lines one through five to a "loud‚" sudden spondee in line six clearly depicts the image of a wave crashing. The spondaic rhythm (stress/stress) of the first two words in line six‚ "These‚ these‚" is an unexpected‚ drastic change from the prior unstressed/stressed pattern. Similar to the crashing of a wave
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DISTINCTION BETWEEN BRITISH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH ON THE ASPECT OF SOUND SYSTEM Abstract In this paper‚ distincion between British English and American English on the phonetic aspect will be discussed. The whole paper is going to be devided into several parts‚ in the first part various of English accents and the outline of the differences between these two variants of English will be introduced in biref ; In the second part‚ the representative of British English – Recerved pronunciation
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Lecture Intonation in English Outline 1. Intonation: definition‚ approaches‚ functions. 2. Components of intonation and the structure of English tone-group. 3. Sentence stress. 4. Rhythm. 1. Intonation: definition‚ approaches‚ functions. Intonation is a language universal. There are no languages which are spoken without any change of prosodic parameters but intonation functions in various languages in a different way. What is the role intonation plays in the language? Intonation
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Galway Kinnell wrote this poem in such a way that certain musical qualities are very prevalent. These techniques he employs give the poem rhythm and connect it in a special way. Through Galway’s use of consonance‚ rhythm of syllables‚ and lines without conjunctions make this poem come alive‚ giving it an attractive and appealing musical quality. As the poem begins‚ Kinnell begins by using consonance‚ a technique that is found in music as well as literature. This is found in the first line by his
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Phonetics and phonology They are branches of linguistics that study speech sounds. Phonetics studies physical aspects of speech sounds (the production and perception of speech sounds‚ differences in sound quality‚ clear / l / vs dark / l /‚ / u: / vs / ʊ /‚ / p / vs / ph /‚ etc.). Three main areas of phonetics: - Articulatory phonetics: dealing with the way in which speech sounds are produced (sounds classified according to the position of the lips and the tongue
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