Understanding Text: Properties and Structure
Text: The total unit of oral or written communication issued by an issuer in certain circumstances. Properties:
- It is an act in which the sender expresses an intention.
- It occurs in a situation that should be appropriate; otherwise, it is meaningless.
- It has a structure that connects its entirety and gives it coherence and unity.
Appropriateness: The property that involves the selection of the most suitable language for a communication situation, among all the possibilities.
Coherence: The property of
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Understanding Bankruptcy Law
What is bankruptcy?
Bankruptcy is governed by statutory law – specifically, Title 11 of the United States Code.
Key changes were introduced by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.
Differences Between Bankruptcy Code & State Debtor-Creditor Code
State debtor-creditor law focuses on individual actions by a particular creditor. By contrast, the bankruptcy code is a collective process, focusing on what happens to creditors generally.
In the
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Literary Devices
Alliteration: Repetition of one or more phonemes in order to imitate a sound.
Anaphora: Repetition of one word at the beginning of each verse.
Parallelism: Repetition of syntactic structures.
Tautology: Needless use of words that add no extra meaning, but can add expressiveness.
Polysyndeton: Continuous repetition of conjunctions.
Polyptoton: Repetition of the stem of a word.
Hypallage: A figure of speech in which an attribute is applied to something other than what it logically qualifies.
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Key Concepts in EFL Teaching and Linguistics
Indicate the incorrect option:
Lexicology includes the study of:
The use of lexical items by speakers of different social classes.
Teaching lexis in EFL includes:
Teaching the lexical item through jazz chants.
Ways of presenting the semantics of a lexical item include:
Dictation of the word.
Teaching the various meaning relationships of a lexical item includes:
Word truncations.
Teaching the form of a lexical item includes:
Translation into students’ mother tongue.
Descriptive Discourse: Techniques and Stylistics
The Supportive Role of Descriptive Discourse
Although descriptive discourse has a clear-cut identity as a genuine modality of discourse, unmistakably differentiated from other modalities (narration, exposition, etc.), it rarely appears by itself in a literary passage. Most of the time, due to its ornamental character, it acts in supportive functions as an auxiliary device of narrative discourse (which is generally the emperor of the literary passage), or of persuasive discourse, to contribute to
Analysis of Spenser, Shakespeare, Eliot, and Wordsworth
Analysis of Poetry by Spenser, Shakespeare, Eliot, and Wordsworth
75 Spenser is one of the great English poets. He wanted to create poetry that was strictly English, and he had Chaucer as his inspiration and reference. With this poem, Spenser is trying to make his loved one immortal. It is formed by 3 quatrains and a couplet and is written in iambic pentameter.
Spenser: Amoretti 75
Main themes: immortality and love. The waves wash the name away. The action of the waves symbolizes how time will destroy
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