The Swans‚ by Clifford Dyment Midstream they met. Challenger and champion‚ They fought a war for honor Fierce‚ sharp‚ but with no honor; Each had a simple aim and sought it quickly. The combat over the victor sailed away Broken‚ but placid as the gift of swans‚ Leaving his rival to his shame alone. I listened for a song‚ according to story‚ But this swan’s death was out of character No giving up of the grace of life In a sad lingering music I saw the beaten swan rise on the water As
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STUDY GUIDE FOR 3Sc & 3-B ENGLISH SEMESTER I+ 1. Review Test I for questions on Genres of Writing. Be prepared to answer questions by giving examples. Genres are types of writing. Each genre has a specific purpose. Forms are subcategories of genres. Nonfiction Narratives: Diaries and journal entries‚ blogs‚ biography‚ personal narratives and eyewitness accounts‚ Memoirs‚ Reflective Essays E.g. Sandra Cisneros’ Straw into Gold Fiction Narratives: Realistic Fiction‚ Fantasy Story‚ Historical
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religious color to demonstrate how Little Red Cap grows stronger and dig it to a deeper level. The first obvious difference between the two versions is the character Little Red Cap itself. Most of time‚ the character created by the author is a denotation by which a theme is voiced. The Grimm’s Little Red Cap is so innocent and fragile that she is a victim by appeasing the wolf’s hunger. She is weak and needs to be saved by a strong person‚ just like it happened at the end when she was rescued by
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“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart‚ the less capable you are of loving the present”- Barbara De Angelis. Ellen Hopkins’s novel Rumble uncovers the story of Matthew‚ an average teenage boy struggling with the suicide of his younger brother‚ Luke. Through poetry‚ Matthew expresses his denial‚ guilt‚ and‚ most importantly loss of faith. He explains the guilt he feels for not standing up for his brother who endured constant homophobic bullying. These emotions present in Matthew’s
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their grief/oppression through their work. It was an abstract method to get their message across without being overt about the issue. Individuals who identified as gay‚ lesbian‚ queer or felt a part of the LGBTQ community understood the legitimate denotation behind the author’s work. Similar to the way ethnic/cultural groups have their own language to understand one another‚ the LGBTQ community is a group that formulated their unique language. In regards to overcoming similar impediments they understand
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Poststructuralism can be. New Historicism is not a concept‚ it’s a method. Text can be analyzed to mean anything using Structuralism‚ because Structuralism says there are infinite amount of meanings anything can have depending on the group of words and their denotations and connotations. “New Historicism rejects this periodization of history in favor of ordering history only through the interplay of forms of power”(Ed. New Historicism takes the infinite meanings and uses the ones that tell the subaltern’s point
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GLOSSARY OF TECHNIQUES USED TO CREATE MEANING Active voice/passive voice Writing that uses the forms of verbs which create a direct relationship between the subject and the object. Active voice is lively and more direct. Eg. ‘We had fun’ is written in the active voice; ‘Fun was had’ is written in the passive voice. Alliteration The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. It is used to produce sound that adds to the atmosphere or mood of the words‚ or perhaps
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Lucian Skerjanec Date: 23/11/12 IB 11 TOK Mr. Bryant Theory of Knowledge IB 11 Semester 1 Test Review Guide Propositional Knowledge and “Knowing That” Plato and his students began studying knowledge by analyzing if it was valid. They came to conclude that for knowledge to be certain‚ it must… Can be described and communicated to anyone effectively and accurately. It must be absolutely convincing to anyone you communicate with. A “proposition” is a formal statement of convincing knowledge
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Introduction to Formal Methods Chapter 04: CTL Model Checking Roberto Sebastiani DISI‚ Università di Trento‚ Italy – rseba@disi.unitn.it URL: http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/DIDATTICA/fm2012/ teaching assistant: Silvia Tomasi – silvia.tomasi@disi.unitn.it CDLM in Informatica‚ academic year 2011-2012 last update: April 26‚ 2012 Copyright notice: some material (text‚ figures) displayed in these slides is courtesy of M. Benerecetti‚ A. Cimatti‚ P. Pandya‚ M. Pistore‚ M. Roveri‚ and S.Tonetta‚ who detain
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Danya P. Ms. Q English 1302 April 2013 New Criticism and the Poem “When I Heard a Learn’d Astronomer” During the early half of the 20th century‚ a new style of criticism emerged allowing literary texts to be examined as “independent and complete works of art” as defined by Linda Pavlovski (1). It is evident that literary works were and still are interpreted with aid from historical‚ biological‚ and even cultural perspectives but New Criticism advocates each work of literary can stand with its
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