works of a renowned poet who captivated my attention with his beautifully compelling pieces‚ particularly in recognition of World War I. (PP #2 – Ted Hughes) Ted Hughes was an English Poet‚ famously known for his marriage to fellow poet Sylvia Plath. His poems remained as complex and intricate as his tangled personal life. The work of Ted Hughes belongs to the post-modern period‚ as he was born in 1930 and died in 1998. Arguably one of the greatest poets of his generation‚ Hughes’ poems
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IOC Study Guide IB English HL 1 – Ferrara What works will be included on the IOC? • The Fire Next Time • Poetry of Sylvia Plath ▪ Cinderella ▪ The Colossus ▪ Stillborn ▪ The Moon and the Yew Tree ▪ Daddy (extract) ▪ Medusa ▪ Cut ▪ Lady Lazarus (extract) • Pride and Prejudice • Hamlet What will the extract be like? • Length: 25 – 40 lines o
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What are the three names on the ace of spades? The three names are Graham Greene‚ Sylvia Plath and Morris West 3. Who is Graham Greene? Graham Greene is an author 4. Who lives at 114 Glory Rd? A Polynesian family lives at 114 Glory Road. The father is bigger than the man from Edgar St. Part 4: The Music of Hearts 1. Explain
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Both stories feature teenagers growing up in the 50’s trying to find their true identity while juggling the everyday struggles of being a teen. Catcher in the Rye follows a 17 year old boy named holden who has been dealt a bad hand of cards. His younger brother passed away from leukemia and it changed his life completely. J.D Salinger uses loss in this book to shape how Holden acts and views the rest of the world. It really is the main cause of his inner hatred for himself and others‚ because he
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The Bell Jar was published in 1963. The book dealt heavily with mental health and how it was treated and perceived at the time. The Bell Jar touched on gender issues at the time and was described as a feminist novel. In the 1950’s numerous historical events took place and references to those events were made in the book. The story centered around a young woman named Esther Greenwood‚ who aspired to be a writer. The book started off in the summer of 1953 in New York‚ where Esther was an intern
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The playwright of Taming of the Shrew‚ by Shakespeare‚ and the film text 10 Things I Hate about You‚ directed by Gil Junga‚ convey similar plots‚ however‚ the composition of these two texts spreads across 400 years. With this‚ audiences who have experienced both of these texts can witness the differences of the society within the 17th and the 20th century. This is conveyed through the social context of both era’s (the Elizabethan Era and 20th century USA) and also the Shakespearean language in contrast
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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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Dramatic Monologues: According to M.H. Abrahms‚ dramatic monologue is a poetic form‚ "a lengthy speech by a single person"‚ addressing a silent listener‚ intended to convey his or her inner thoughts and emotions. It can be rewritten in jargonised terms as ’a cross or hybrid of the genres of drama and lyric’. A lyric poem is ‘any fairly short poem‚ consisting of the utterance by a single speaker‚ who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception‚ thought‚ and feeling’. Though
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to get help for them. Depression can happen to anyone‚ It can happen to preschoolers‚ children‚ teenagers‚ young women‚ young men‚ and also elderly people. It can also easily happen to famous people. For example Abraham Lincoln‚ Mike Wallace‚Sylvia Plath‚ Winston Churchill‚ Georgia O’keeffe‚ Janet Jackson‚ A.J. McLean‚ Kurt Cobain‚ Gerard Way‚ Mark Twain‚ and even Disney Channel Star Demi Lovato have suffered from some sort of depression. When someone is depressed it doesn’t just affect them. It
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“The Thing about Books” Do you get that overwhelming euphoric feeling when you go inside a bookshop or a library? Do you smell through the pages of old books‚ yellow and worn out with time (and new ones!)‚ and get that ecstatic sensation? Do you get that comforting feeling when you know you are carrying some books with you‚ even just for the sake of carrying it (not to mention‚ it is a cure for that toxic boredom‚ too)? During rainy days and bed weathers‚ do you just want to grab something from
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