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“Miller’s Tale” Character Analysis Throughout The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer uses different ways to diversify his characters such as gender, psychology, formalism, and how they are presented throughout the story, this is most evident in the “Miller’s Tale.” Formalism is a literary criticism that focuses on the literal text rather than the history behind the author or the time the article was published. The first character discussed is John the carpenter, he is arguably the most…

I belong to a social group that learns how to write poetry. The social group is a class taught at SPC, with an instructor who orchestrates the learning process: what the students learn; how the students will learn the presented material; how to write poetry; and how to interpret and analyze poems. Each student in the class is a novice when it comes to writing poetry. Because the class is an elective, each student must have had an interest pertaining to poetry, whether it be why poetry is…

Stylistic Analysis of Allama Iqbal’s Shikwa Back ground: According to Bassnett and Gundy (1993) “Literature is a high pint of language practice; debatable it makes the best skill a language user can express. Anyone who wants to obtain a thoughtful knowledge of language that goes away from the useful will read literary texts in that language.” Usually, literature is look upon to be the privilege of definite people who are capable with certain ability and understanding literature. Literature is…

Media Essay – Analysis of Divergent In this essay I will be analysing the film Divergent and the ways in which it links to Theory in Action. This essay will cover the links between Divergent and theories such as the Feminism Theory, Marxism, and Structuralism etc. The first topic that I will be looking at is the genre of the film. Divergent can be linked to many genres due to the narrative but the main genres that it is categorised under are Action and Adventure. There are many ways in which…

Since nearly the beginning of spoken language, there have been abbreviations of words, ways to make the spoken language simpler and shorter. This has become more advanced over time, but it is clear that American English, at least, is not to the point of 1984’s Newspeak. Despite the more limited vocabulary that the 2016 world has, English has eliminated few words with such basic and primal meanings and uses as “good” or “bad.” However, Newspeak has gone considerably further, to the point where…

Intro. To Biology- Caroline Calhoun Context – As I began this video, I saw a number of things I would need to think about to be able to interpret this video to the best of my abilities. First off, my receptive skills need work. As the woman in the video signed, I found it difficult to read her fingerspelling. Also, another thing I noticed was that she altered her pace frequently while signing, causing me to think I would have a problem keeping up with her as she changed pace. Because the woman…

Advice for Interpreters: Timing Many people have said “in humor, timing is everything.” Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering (2011) test this theory to see if timing affects how people tell jokes and how those jokes are received by others. They examined if presenters paused or spoke faster when saying the punchline. Their findings for the pauses that occurred in a joke were longer at the beginning of the joke than the slight pause that happened before the punchline. Attardo and Pickering…

The media has years of experience in shaping their reader’s mentality without any one of them realizing what is being done. Not just media but just about every author falls guilty when it comes to the spreading of information. Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B. Birk worked together in writing a book called Understanding and Using English. In it, the topic of charged and slanted language is defined and discussed in great detail alongside examples. It is important to be aware of slanted and charged…

While “Araby” uses emotions through many metaphors and ambiguous terms, “Maladies” uses a much more unemotional, straightforward style throughout the story so as to paint a picture for the reader. Take the last paragraph in each story for example; in “Araby” the narrator is “gazing up into the darkness” and sees himself “a creature driven and derided by vanity; and [his] eyes burned with anguish and anger” (16). This exceedingly metaphorical sentence, the reader is forced to substitute their own…

The True Meaning of “My Papa’s Waltz” The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” can affect the reader in two different ways; Some may see the child and father playing roughly, while others may see the father as being abusive toward his child. “Theodore Roethke, the author of “My Papa’s Waltz”, Was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan and sometimes went back to draw inspiration for his poems” (Zande 34). The poem is about a father and son “Waltzing” around the house. It starts out as a son smells the scent of…