-Author
-Context
-Characters
Shakespeare, 16th century
Plays: Tragedy, Historical, Comedy
Syracuse ( Sicily) Ephesus ( Turkey)
S. Antipholus (not maried) and E. Antipholus (Andriana) (twin brother)
S. Dromio and E. Dromio (the twin servants of the twin brothers)
Egeon (Father) and Emilia (Mother) (Abess, head of the monastery)
Angelo ( Jeweller)
Solinus (Duke)
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Midterm Writing test Part B
Wrap-up activities
10.
First, The author puts the reader in a simple regular everyday situation for him to identify to the story. She wants to capture his attention for the eventual dramatic turn out. She associates bread with a pleasure of life, describing clearly the fact that you ate it with appetite. She starts out the story with the word ''imagine'' that will be repeated each time she changes the circumstances. She insists on the fact that making bread is for you a relaxing thing you often enjoy. She describes a simple action we do mostly everyday that doesn't mean anything to us. She wants to make us remember the pleasure of eating peanut butter honey bread.
Then, she transports you into the dramatic context of famine, keeping the bread as the main stake. She defines you as a poor person living in a slum with a younger sister starving to death. The author clearly defines that you are sleeping on a thin mattress and that the walls are made out of dried earth to make you empathize with the situation. After, she imposes you an ultimatum; give the bread to your starving sister, or keep it to yourself. Here again, the bread is the main element that will make all the difference. She wants you to think about the banality of the bread for you and the importance of it for the starving poor people. She starts of the paragraph with the word believe to really make you imagine it could happen to you.
To conclude, we clearly see that Margaret Atwood uses the bread as an introspection tool. She makes you identify, then she confronts you with a situation you usually want to avoid and forget. She denounces our capitalist and our self-minded thinking compared to the distressed starving people living in poor conditions that as nothing but bread. Then she makes you believe that the bread might be an hallucination to give it importance it deserves.The story is wrote as if the author is personally speaking to you. This makes you imagine yourself beeing confronted to these situation.
10.
First, The author puts the reader in a simple regular everyday situation for him to identify to the story. She wants to capture his attention for the eventual dramatic turn out. She associates bread with a pleasure of life, describing clearly the fact that you ate it with appetite. She starts out the story with the word ''imagine'' that will be repeated each time she changes the circumstances. She insists on the fact that making bread is for you a relaxing thing you often enjoy. She describes a simple action we do mostly everyday that doesn't mean anything to us. She wants to make us remember the pleasure of eating peanut butter honey bread.
Then, she transports you into the dramatic context of famine, keeping the bread as the main stake. She defines you as a poor person living in a slum with a younger sister starving to death. The author clearly defines that you are sleeping on a thin mattress and that the walls are made out of dried earth to make you empathize with the situation. After, she imposes you an ultimatum; give the bread to your starving sister, or keep it to yourself. Here again, the bread is the main element that will make all the difference. She wants you to think about the banality of the bread for you and the importance of it for the starving poor people. She starts of the paragraph with the word believe to really make you imagine it could happen to you.
To conclude, we clearly see that Margaret Atwood uses the bread as an introspection tool. She makes you identify, then she confronts you with a situation you usually want to avoid and forget. She denounces our capitalist and our self-minded thinking compared to the distressed starving people living in poor conditions that as nothing but bread. Then she makes you believe that the bread might be an hallucination to give it importance it deserves.The story is wrote as if the author is personally speaking to you. This makes you imagine yourself beeing confronted to these situation.
Midterm Writing test: Part A
Part A: Writer's Craft
Figurative Devices:
1.The ''new food'' is a metaphore, because we associate this type of food with the astronaut, which is synonym of technology. Also, there is a parallel to do with the obsession of man to simplify everything, even things that souldn't be.
2.a) ''Bread'' is the link between the situations given by the author and it is defined differently for each of these situations. Imagery is important, because it lets imagine and identify yourself with the main action.
b) I found the famine imagery really powerful, because it makes us realize how lucky we are to have everything we need. It makes you see throught the eyes of a poor person beeing confronted to a difficult choice.
4.a) The first time the author uses this metaphor, it's right before the old man dies; ''Night is a black sheet.''. It is repeated at the end of the story when the the old woman lies down; '' black sheet of night.''.
b) For me, the first time it appears, the metaphor involves the death of the old man, because the following sentence says that he passes away.
c) When the metaphor is repeated at the end of the story, we can conclude that she fell asleep, or that she also died. It depends on the readers imagination.
Rhythm:
1. ''Old Habits Die Hard'' uses a rhythmical language.
2. Bedbug. Bedridden. Bedlam. Bedpan. Bedraggled. Bedfast.
Level of Language:
1. ''The New Food''
2. ''Bread''
3. ''The New Food''
Syntax:
1. '' Old Habits Die Hard''
2. First, it is mentionned that the old man can't talk and can't remember most of his memories. Using a short form of sentence, involves the fact that the old man is tired and doesn't have the energy to formulate complete thoughts.
3. We can deduce that the old woman was the old man's wife and that she was taking care of him.
4.a) It's a quite long sentence that uses repetition of words in each preceding sentences.
b) There are two question marks in the last sentence, probably to impose an introspection from the reader. It finishes with the word ''imagine'', which introduced most of the paragraphs.
Tone:
1.'' The new Food''
2. It dramatises the the saddening effect of the invention.
3. Sadness: ''Bread''
Uneasiness: ''Old Habits Die Hard''
Attitude:
1. '' Bread''
2. The author wants to influence a refexion from the reader, since she uses strong imagery and vocabulary to denounce sad situations.
Figurative Devices:
1.The ''new food'' is a metaphore, because we associate this type of food with the astronaut, which is synonym of technology. Also, there is a parallel to do with the obsession of man to simplify everything, even things that souldn't be.
2.a) ''Bread'' is the link between the situations given by the author and it is defined differently for each of these situations. Imagery is important, because it lets imagine and identify yourself with the main action.
b) I found the famine imagery really powerful, because it makes us realize how lucky we are to have everything we need. It makes you see throught the eyes of a poor person beeing confronted to a difficult choice.
4.a) The first time the author uses this metaphor, it's right before the old man dies; ''Night is a black sheet.''. It is repeated at the end of the story when the the old woman lies down; '' black sheet of night.''.
b) For me, the first time it appears, the metaphor involves the death of the old man, because the following sentence says that he passes away.
c) When the metaphor is repeated at the end of the story, we can conclude that she fell asleep, or that she also died. It depends on the readers imagination.
Rhythm:
1. ''Old Habits Die Hard'' uses a rhythmical language.
2. Bedbug. Bedridden. Bedlam. Bedpan. Bedraggled. Bedfast.
Level of Language:
1. ''The New Food''
2. ''Bread''
3. ''The New Food''
Syntax:
1. '' Old Habits Die Hard''
2. First, it is mentionned that the old man can't talk and can't remember most of his memories. Using a short form of sentence, involves the fact that the old man is tired and doesn't have the energy to formulate complete thoughts.
3. We can deduce that the old woman was the old man's wife and that she was taking care of him.
4.a) It's a quite long sentence that uses repetition of words in each preceding sentences.
b) There are two question marks in the last sentence, probably to impose an introspection from the reader. It finishes with the word ''imagine'', which introduced most of the paragraphs.
Tone:
1.'' The new Food''
2. It dramatises the the saddening effect of the invention.
3. Sadness: ''Bread''
Uneasiness: ''Old Habits Die Hard''
Attitude:
1. '' Bread''
2. The author wants to influence a refexion from the reader, since she uses strong imagery and vocabulary to denounce sad situations.
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