Essays on Language Learning Page 44

Kenneth Slessor’s poignant poem, ‘Beach Burial’ contemplates on the improper and unfair burial that the Australian soldiers, who were at war with the Germans during World War 2, receive as a result of the fact that they could not get back home. The main idea that the poet was trying to get across was that…

The existence of fate is a topic that has been heavily debated for many years. Is someone’s destiny really predetermined? Or is life just a series of coincidences and butterfly effects? In Virgil’s epic, The Aeneid, we follow the Trojan hero, Aeneas, through a difficult journey in an attempt to fulfill his god-given destiny. A…

Lord Chesterfield used meiosiss ( understatement ) . a academic tone. and a intimation of a condescending tone in an effort to convert his boy to follow the advice that Chesterfield provides in the missive. When reasoning his missive he warns his boy that failure is non an option due to the humiliation it will…

Tongue is about the authors struggles with her linguistic identity, her mothers ‘fractured” or “broken” variation of English and the relationship with her mother. At the beginning of the piece we are told about the different types of English she would speak with her mother and with everyone else; we are then told how English…

Multiculturalism “The Chinese in All of Us” is a piece written by Richard Rodriguez that addresses multiculturalism. In this piece, he explains that he is an advocate for the metaphorical melting pot. He believes there is merit in being exposed to many different cultures and influences. However, he strongly believes in the common American culture….

Passage A describes a canoe journey into the jungle, as recounted by Redmond O’Hanlon. James, a poet, reluctantly agreed to join Redmond on their expedition to the heart of Borneo. At noon, we embarked on our journey up-river in a dugout canoe. After approximately ten miles, the cultivated fields transformed into a mature secondary forest,…

As seen by simply reading the poem, one cannot come from it without having a feeling of awe and inspiration, along with a new desire to read Chessman’s translation of Homer. The poem is rich with emotion-invoking language and filled to the brim with excitement. The poet, John Keats, uses figurative language such as metaphor…

Fantasy Rhetoric: Summary and Analysis of Katherine Fowkes’s Fantasy Films A Rhetoric Analysis consists of a multitude of attributes some larger than others and some not specifically require. Among those are certain attributes that are what provides the foundation of any Rhetoric work, Logos, Pathos, and Ethos or persuasive appeal. My job is to show…

Romance (heroic literature) As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as having heroic qualities, who goes on a quest. Popular literature also drew on themes of romance, but with ironic, satiric or burlesque intent. Romances reworked legends, fairy tales, and history to suit…

English literatureI. INTRODUCTIONEnglish literature, literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British Isles; it was during the 15th cent. that the English language acquired much of its modern form. II. The Tudors and the Elizabethan AgeThe beginning of the Tudor dynasty coincided with the first dissemination of printed matter. William Caxton’s…