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Carrying out linguistic analysis of texts and extracts in class
This is, of course, something that needs considerable practice in AS and A2 Language classrooms, and it can be a constant battle to engage in meaningful linguistic analysis while still ringing the changes.
This selection of ideas can be used for different kinds of analysis: general AS level analysis to embed and apply linguistic techniques; analysis of particular kinds of text (e.g....
[ read full article ] »A Research Task on Wuthering Heights »
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Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” was published in 1847 under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. It is now considered a classic novel in English literature.
Originally, the book seemed to hold little promise, selling very poorly and receiving only a few mixed reviews. Even the author’s sister, Charlotte, stated in a preface to the book, which she wrote shortly after Emily Brontë’s death “Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know. I scarcely think it is.” and other Victorian readers found the...
[ read full article ] »A Lexical Analysis of Larkin Poetry »
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“It’s better than talking about ******* daffodils, this sir!”
Next, Please by Philip Larkin
Always too eager for the future, we
Pick up bad habits of expectancy.
Something is always approaching; every day
Till then we say,
Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear
Sparkling armada of promises draw near.
How slow they are! And how much time they waste,
Refusing to make haste!
Yet still they leave us holding wretched stalks
Of disappointment, for, though nothing balks
Each big approach, leaning with brasswork prinked,
Each rope distinct,
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