The concluding paragraph. It is the last part of the essay, it summarizes the entire essay in a few sentences and also it gives an opinion: a prediction, recommendation, solution or a personal opinion. It reminds the reader of the main ideas expressed in the thesis statement or the topic sentences, it reinforces the argument and finally it makes sure that the reader understands what the essay is talking about. --There are two parts on the concluding paragraph: -1-Summary: It restarts what has been...
Body paragraph. It is the paragraph which is not the introductory and the conclusion. In short essays it is normally only one paragraph, but in longer essays it can have more than one. There are three parts in it: -1-The topic sentence gives the general topic of the paragraph, it is a more general information that the supporting sentence and it controls all the information given in the rest of the paragraph. Normally every paragraph has a topic sentence and it is placed in the first part of it....
LUZÁN: Su poética fue uno de los textos más influyentes en España durante el s.XVIII. De la 2ª edición, póstuma, se encargó su discípulo Llaguno. --Fue la figura más inquietante de la Ilustración española pero se le consideraba afrancesado. Menéndez Pelayo, escribiendo su historia de la literatura española, influido por la guerra contra Francia del momento y su propio tradicionalismo, limpia la imagen de Luzán para incluirlo en su obra. Culpa a Llaguno de incluir muchas citas de autores...
PINCIANO: La ‘’philosophia Antigua Poética’’ está compuesta por 13 epístolas, en las que dialogan Pinciano y dos vecinos. Al final de cada dialogo se incluyen la respuesta de don Gabriel, que resume los aspectos mas relevantes tratados en el. - - Sus objetivos se sitúan dentro del arte poética alejándose de los intereses exclusivamente métricos y acercándola ala filosofía: 1.De la soberanía que otorga a la razón depende su concepto aristotélico de imitación y el de verosimilitud....
#1A telephone call: She is thinking aloud. An interior monologue ("stream of conciousness"). The woman is nervous, anxious, desperate, she needs that call; we know this because of lots of repetitions of words, short sentences, her mind is running. It does not have any descriptions which make the text be slower, no adjectives, and very few adverbs. Emotional language: God, emotions
#2Special Damage: Omniscient narrator, knows everything. Its about a woman who is in a hospital, Mary, she has an...
The poem ‘On Home Beaches’ written by Les Murray talks primarily about body image and the extreme, absurd importance attached to it in a consumerist society. It describes the unfair and debilitating humiliation suffered by people with a less-than perfect figure, especially on places like beaches where the body is nearly completely visible. // The poem is a contemporary sonnet in form. Sonnets are generally about love: soft and gentle. The poet ironically turns the very concept of a sonnet inside-...
Achebe’s "things fall apart" // narrator · The narrator is anonymous but shows sympathy for the various residents of Umuofia. // point of view · The narration is in the third person, by an omniscient figure who focuses on Okonkwo but switches from character to character to detail the thoughts and motives of various individuals. // tone · Ironic, tragic, satirical, fablelike // setting (time) · 1890s // setting (place) · Lower Nigerian villages, Iguedo and Mbanta in particular...
// Written in the first person narrative point of view, the poem “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka is a poetic satire against the widely-spread racism in the modern Western society. The poem is about a telephone conversation in England between the poetic persona seeking to rent a house and an English landlady who completely changes her attitude towards him after he reveals his identity as a black African. The motif of a microcosmic telephone conversation, therefore, is employed by the...
“Miss Bill” by Katherine Mansfield(1888–1923) AUTHOR: She was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand. Mansfield left for Great Britain when she was 19 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. Mansfield reflected in her work loneliness, illness, jealousy, with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class characters. Her...