1L LELE writer in his century / Animal Farm by Orwell. Question- how to represent /criticise the society thanks to writing?
Personification / allegory / satire / philosophical tale. List of forms of word play. This is a list of techniques used in word play.
Techniques that involve the phonetic values of words Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning. The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics (cf. soramimi).Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describingRhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words Alliteration: matching consonants sounds at the beginning of wordsAssonance: matching vowel soundsConsonance: matching consonant soundsHolorime: a rhyme that encompasses an entire line or phraseSpoonerism: a switch of two sounds in two different words (cf. sananmuunnos)Janusism: the use of phonetics to create a humorous word (e.g.
BOREneo from Borneo)Oronyms: homophones of multiple words or phrases (as sometimes seen in word games) Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words Others. Epilogue To Through The Looking Glass Poem by Lewis Carroll - Poem Hunter. 5 Odd Facts About Lewis Carroll. Alice fell down the famous rabbit hole 150 years ago, after family friend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll) told the story to the Liddell sisters on a boat trip down the Thames on July 4, 1862.
Ten-year-old Alice Liddell, delighted by the tale, asked him for a written copy of the story. The rest is history. Free Philip K. Dick: Download 13 Great Science Fiction Stories. Although he died when he was only 53 years old, Philip K.
Dick (1928 – 1982) published 44 novels and 121 short stories during his lifetime and solidified his position as arguably the most literary of science fiction writers. His novel Ubik appears on TIME magazine’s list of the 100 best English-language novels, and Dick is the only science fiction writer to get honored in the prestigious Library of America series, a kind of pantheon of American literature. If you’re not intimately familiar with his novels, then you assuredly know major films based on Dick’s work – Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darklyand Minority Report. Roman Fever- by Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Read the collected works of Edith Wharton.More E-texts Roman Fever by Edith Wharton (1862-1937) From the table at which they had been lunching two American ladies of ripe but well-cared-for middle age moved across the lofty terrace of the Roman restaurant and, leaning on its parapet, looked first at each other, and then down on the outspread glories of the Palatine and the Forum, with the same expression of vague but benevolent approval.
Short Stories - English Language Arts. Short Stories - English Language Arts. Short Stories for Students. 10 Free Stories by George Saunders, Author of Tenth of December, "The Best Book You’ll Read This Year" For writers and serious readers, George Saunders is anything but a newcomer.
Saunders published his first short story with The New Yorker back in 1992, and his new stories have regularly debuted in the magazine's Fiction section ever since. Over the years, he has gained the reputation of being a "writer's writer," with authors like Tobias Wolff saying about Saunders: “He’s been one of the luminous spots of our literature for the past 20 years.” But despite his literary accomplishments, and despite winning the prestigious MacArthur award in 2006, George Saunders never quite became a household name until January 6 of this year. On that day, The New York Times published an article with the title, "George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year," a pretty bold declaration given that 2013 still had 359 days to go.
"A Temporary Matter," Jhumpa Lahiri – 8 Short Stories For Spring. Here are some short stories to get us ready for spring in all the weirdest ways.
For those living in the coldest parts of the world, spring can signify a glorious moment of change and of transition. Our Lady of Sorrows — The Atlantic. Willfully unaware of the facts of her professional life, listeners persist in thinking that Billie Holiday felt their pain.
FEW people alive today, even among her most ardent fans, have heard Billie Holiday other than on recordings or seen her other than in photographs and random film clips. Holiday was eighteen years old and a worldly former prostitute when she recorded "Your Mother's Son-in-Law" with Benny Goodman in 1933; she died from the cumulative effects of heroin and alcohol in 1959, a ravaged forty-four.
The Castle of Otranto: The creepy tale that launched gothic fiction. Image copyright ALAMY Tragic tales of doomed romance and supernatural horror, often set in baroque castles, have thrilled readers for centuries.
But many modern-day fans of gothic literature may not be familiar with the 18th Century novel that inspired the genre, writes Peter Ray Allison. Ask anyone about gothic literature and they are likely to reference Bram Stoker's Dracula or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as early examples. Literary Terms Resources. The Arts - Audrey's Allusions.
Green Original Source Green is the color of many things around us, but it is "most commonly associated with nature and the environmental movement, Islam, spring, hope and envy.
" In the poem, "I am Waiting" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, he uses the word 'green' as an adjective to describe the type of morning he yearns for. Source Citation. Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] On March 24, 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York. After spending his early childhood in France, he received his BA from the University of North Carolina, an MA from Columbia University, and a PhD from the Sorbonne. During World War II he served in the US Naval Reserve and was sent to Nagasaki shortly after it was bombed. He married in 1951 and has one daughter and one son. In 1953, Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin began to publish City Lights magazine. They also opened the City Lights Books Shop in San Francisco to help support the magazine. <i>Charlie Hebdo</i>, Voltaire, and Us Paris has a way of drawing one's gaze to the past.
As we marched southeast yesterday from Place de la République, crowds singing and banners flying, we asserted proud and ancient sentiments against a tragedy that had blown us all back. On most days, these words and symbols -- liberté, solidarité, la Bastille -- are a backdrop to busy Parisian lives, the familiar ticking of a quaint old clock. Yesterday again, they were battle cries. France - Voltaire ‘tolerance’ book flies off shelves after Paris attacks.
iWonder - Spine-chillers and suspense: A timeline of Gothic fiction. Jack Kerouac's Road - A Franco-American Odyssey by Herménégilde Chiasson. STRANGE FRUITby DAVID MARGOLICK As Billie Holiday later told the story, a single gesture by a patron at New York's Café Society, in Greenwich Village, changed the history of American music in early 1939, the night when she first sang "Strange Fruit. " "Strange Fruit": the story of a song. By Peter Daniels 8 February 2002 Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. San Francisco Poet: Lawrence Ferlinghetti. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the city of San Francisco seem inseparably linked. I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Breakfast at Tiffany's documents.
General Literature quizzes < Triviaplaza the Trivia Quiz site. Behold, a happy poet - Features - Books - The Independent. Biography. Poetry International. Site d'Anglais de l'Académie de Grenoble - LELE - Plan de séquence - F. Poutot. Roméo et Juliette de Baz Luhrmann. Le dossier pédagogique dont on trouvera un court extrait ci-dessous s'adresse aux enseignants du secondaire qui verront le film Romeo + Juliet avec leurs élèves (à partir de quatorze ans environ). Il contient plusieurs animations qui pourront être rapidement mises en œuvre en classe après la vision du film. Objectif Faire prendre conscience aux jeunes spectateurs de l'importance du travail d'adaptation auquel le réalisateur Baz Luhrmann a soumis la pièce de Shakespeare.Leur faire également apercevoir les différentes dimensions du travail cinématographique. ShowFile. Introduction to Protest Poetry.
Protest Poems #1. Drama - 60 Second Shakespeare - Shakespeare's plays, themes and characters. What are the main differences between the book and the film of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Shakespeare's Sonnets. From William Shakespeare to Henry VIII: The most visited grave sites in Britain revealed. Readings - English in Gambier. Readings - Other Edgar Allan Poe's short stories ! - English in Gambier. Pardon par avance du trop long post (la métrique ), et bravo pour la scansion proposée, qui est quasiment impeccable. J’ai proposé une scansion en indiquant les pieds (en bleu une correction par rapport à mon édition papier). J’ai mis en orange les syllabes qui portent un accent fort imposé par la métrique. Le principe vous l’avez bien énoncé : on scande les mots en suivant l’accent de mot (pas toujours transparent en anglais !) , et ensuite on accentue dans un groupe nominal plutôt le nom que l’adjectif, dans un groupe verbal le verbe plutôt que l’auxiliaire, rarement les pronoms ou les prépositions monosyllabiques et je pense à peu près jamais l’article.
Pour les syllabes fortes successives, c’est vrai que cela force à ralentir le débit, c’est une manière d’imposer une certaine emphase. Et franchement, Keats: Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen’s World. Photo. The 25 Best Opening Lines in Western Literature.