Literature and Language

Fictional world . . . The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, settings, style dialogue and tone are literary techniques shown, through a selection of words, diction, one of the important literary elements, identify themes convey as part of the writer’s technique. For instance the author style, imagery is conveys vivid descriptive text: “Their manes were braided with streamers of sliver gold, and green.” Narrative, narrator first and third person, but what I read, interesting, the writer starts sentences with a prepositions and transitional words… As a writer, I will differently incorporated the author’s style in my writing . . . for example: “Or they could have none of that: it doesn’t matter”. “For more modest tastes I think there ought to be

The 18th Amendment of the Constitution which prohibited the sell of alcohol was first proposed in 1917, and then would get approved 2 years later in 1919. One year later on January 17, 1920 the Amendment would start to be in effect. Even before it was passed over half of the country had already banned it. Publically many had denounced it yet privately almost everyone thought the decision would be one they would soon end up regretting. With this law now in effect, there ended up being a rise in crime due to a rise in bootlegging which is the transportation of alcoholic beverages. The government was starting to face a dilemma because there was still a demand to drink, but people had no other option aside from obtaining it illegally.

In the article, “Why Literature Matters” by Dana Gioia, Gioia argues that the decline of interest in art in young Americans is a major problem. Gioia uses polls, studies, and a quotation from a credible author in order to illustrate this point. Gioia’s overall purpose in writing this article is to highlight the lack of art interest in young Americans. His primary audience would most likely be the American people, with an emphasis on millennials.

3. His eyes widened and, accentuated by his __________________________________, you could tell he was sickened by the sight of his wife in the room. 4. The __________________________________ philosophy is to use a practical approach to problems, rather than theories. 5. She __________________________________ conversed with her friend on phone. 6. The room was hidden behind the __________________________________ green curtain. 7. He and his __________________________________ hung out at the bar smoking. 8. He could feel __________________________________ anger building inside himself. Matching: Match the antonym to the vocabulary word. _____ 1. concerned _____ 2. compliant _____ 3. clear, truthful _____ 4. ornate _____ 5. tiny _____ 6. beneficial _____ 7. harmful _____ 8. ideally A. austere B. equivocate C. mulish D. cynically E. benignly F. colossal G. apathetically H. pernicious

Throughout history, authors repeatedly create a witch character in their stories. However, authors depict witches differently as such, in The Wizard of Oz, the evil witch is portrayed with the classical black pointy hat, broom, with a green face. Conversely, in the Crucible ordinary girls were accused of being witches without possessing those qualities such as the typical witch hat. However, witches that are portrayed do have the common characteristic such as being female. As in earlier works during the Ancient Greek and Roman writings through the English Renaissance, authors’ portrayed witches (women) to be strong and of independent thought.

In conducting the Counterinsurgency agent networks and noncombatant-targeted violence study, researchers attempted to identify how and why recruited foreign agents become subjects of violence. The researchers, also attempt to identifying in what manner and why this transpires is crucial for emerging intelligence methods to improve and implement effective Counterinsurgency standard operating procedures.

Linguistic: the scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics.

seen in the example of Detroit. When analyzing the reasons for these cities' urban decay we

In one of my English classes; Eng. 125 Introduction to Literature. In this class, gave me a better understanding how literature helps cultural knowledge, and further the building of communities globally. My general educational classes allow me to develop and expand my critical thinking skills, allowing me to be more opened minded about contemporary issues.

Literary genre is the term used to refer to any form of writing. There are many categories of writing such as fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Whether they come in the form of short stories, books, newspapers or even text messages, they are still deemed as ‘literary genre’. In previous classes (such as English 4 or English 101) it was required to know how to read, write, and analyze short stories, writings, poems, books, and more. The main genres worked upon were usually nonfiction such as biographies or autobiographies.

I have a deep respect for the ways in which the phonetics, rhetorical devices and phraseology within a text are used to achieve a specific purpose. I relish discussions and debates with peers on the messages an author is attempting to convey. It is because of this subject that i am able to adopt various approaches to literature such as the feminist, formalist and marxist perspectives through observing the allocation and use of speech within a novel.

This essay originally titled Studying Literature in Grade 12, has an abundance of information regarding and convincing the readers that the grade twelve English course should be composed of Canadian literature. The grammar in this essay however, was weak. The subject did not agree to their pronouns, making many sentences awkward. Overall, improvements could have been made. Some of these include MLA format, the title, introduction paragraph, grammar, punctuation and the citation format.

In the Bible, there are many stories with similarities and differences. The three types of stories being discussed in this paper are wife finding stories, birth stories and death stories. Examples of each type are present in the Old Testament and New Testament. In this paper, the focus is going to be on the stories in the Old Testament. The significance of the similarities is to help the reader identify the type of story written.

After reading all of the poems to myself and in different ways when I’m reading “We Real Cool” I feel like a thug siting on the street corner talking to the other kids around the area. Making it feel like those kids are expected to follow in the story tellers footsteps. This poem reads with more of an arrogant tone and seems to try and make themselves feel more important or cool in the tone they read the poem. I also think this poem could be read to people who are possibly even in jail, or in a support group for something, like a way to express that making trouble, skipping school, causing problems and drinking isn’t worth it in the long run.

Stylistics is a study centered on the language of literature. As the study of style, this approach focuses primarily on the lexical features, the elements of narration and interpretation of characters. These major elements are used to examine a literary work such as in this situation; a novel by Nick Hornby entitled About a Boy is analyzed. The study of stylistics enables reader to scrutinize a specific literary discourse to get a deep insight about the use of language in it. Therefore, the components of stylistics such as the lexical features, the elements of narration and interpretation of characters are utilized to examine the excerpt from the novel, About a Boy.