The document discusses Harold Pinter's play "The Birthday Party" as a comedy of menace. It provides background on Pinter and defines the term "comedy of menace." The play uses comic elements but also creates an overwhelming sense of threat and impending danger. This dual quality gives the play a unique character. The atmosphere of menace comes from Pinter's ability to shift between comedy and seriousness, leaving the audience unsure of what will happen next. Overall, the play has a frightening effect while also being comedic.
This document discusses different strategies for emotional argumentation, including appeals to emotion through word choice, rhetorical figures, and framing. It provides examples of each: word associations that elicit different emotional responses (e.g. "tax relief" vs. "tax cuts"); rhetorical figures like antithesis and tricolon that use parallel structures for emphasis; and different frames for an issue that are designed to elicit different emotional views (e.g. framing graffiti writers as terrorists, artists, or a crack in infrastructure). It emphasizes that emotional argument works best when tapping into audiences' existing hopes, fears, values or sense of identity.
"The Birthday party" as play comedy menaceKishan55555
1) The document discusses Harold Pinter's play "The Birthday Party" and the literary genre of "comedy of menace".
2) "The Birthday Party" tells the story of characters at a boarding house whose lives descend into chaos with the arrival of two mysterious strangers.
3) The play is an example of a "comedy of menace", which creates an atmosphere of unease, fear and ambiguity through potentially violent situations and an underlying sense of threat.
The document summarizes how the horror genre has changed over time from the 1920s to present day. Early horror films relied on Gothic monsters and non-diegetic sound, while modern films employ graphic special effects and psychological plots. Societal fears also influence the genre, shifting from vampires and werewolves to threats like radiation and serial killers. By examining conventions through history, trends emerge showing what continues to scare audiences based on the technology and events of each era.
This document provides an analysis of Harold Pinter's play "The Birthday Party" and the concept of "comedy of menace". It defines comedy of menace as a term used to describe Pinter's early plays that feature comic elements but also produce a sense of terror or overwhelming tragic effect. The document discusses how menace evolves from actual and implied violence in "The Birthday Party" and analyzes some of the play's terrifying and funny scenes. It also briefly discusses the ups and downs in the relationship between India and the United States as another example of comedy of menace.
This document discusses how horror films reflect societal anxieties and taboos. It argues that slasher films in particular depict the punishment of youth, sexuality, and vice to satisfy audiences' desires and alleviate guilt. While B-movies focus more on gore and spectacle, psychological horror films like Black Swan depict more personal anxieties like mental illness in a way that audiences can relate to on a deeper level. The relationship between horror audiences and what they watch is complex, with audiences deriving satisfaction from witnessing the punishment of characters who indulge in taboos.
This document discusses the stories behind famous lines from movies and TV shows. It provides details on where the lines came from, whether they were in the original scripts or improvised, and how they became iconic. Several examples are given, including lines from All About Eve, Jerry Maguire, A League of Their Own, There Will Be Blood, Breaking Bad, The Terminator, Airplane!, Casablanca, Star Trek, and Forrest Gump.
Chief Characteristics Of Comedy Of Menace NiyatiVyas
This document provides an overview of the characteristics of comedy of menace as a genre. It notes that the term was coined by critic Irving Wardle to describe plays by David Campton and Harold Pinter. Comedies of menace feature both comic and tragic elements, keeping the audience both amused and on the brink of terror through an indefinable sense of fear. They often have simplistic settings and focus on the threat faced by characters from a vaguely defined powerful force. The sudden shifts between comedy and seriousness enhance the unsettling atmosphere.
The document discusses Harold Pinter's play "The Birthday Party" as a comedy of menace. It provides background on Pinter and defines the term "comedy of menace." The play uses comic elements but also creates an overwhelming sense of threat and impending danger. This dual quality gives the play a unique character. The atmosphere of menace comes from Pinter's ability to shift between comedy and seriousness, leaving the audience unsure of what will happen next. Overall, the play has a frightening effect while also being comedic.
This document discusses different strategies for emotional argumentation, including appeals to emotion through word choice, rhetorical figures, and framing. It provides examples of each: word associations that elicit different emotional responses (e.g. "tax relief" vs. "tax cuts"); rhetorical figures like antithesis and tricolon that use parallel structures for emphasis; and different frames for an issue that are designed to elicit different emotional views (e.g. framing graffiti writers as terrorists, artists, or a crack in infrastructure). It emphasizes that emotional argument works best when tapping into audiences' existing hopes, fears, values or sense of identity.
"The Birthday party" as play comedy menaceKishan55555
1) The document discusses Harold Pinter's play "The Birthday Party" and the literary genre of "comedy of menace".
2) "The Birthday Party" tells the story of characters at a boarding house whose lives descend into chaos with the arrival of two mysterious strangers.
3) The play is an example of a "comedy of menace", which creates an atmosphere of unease, fear and ambiguity through potentially violent situations and an underlying sense of threat.
The document summarizes how the horror genre has changed over time from the 1920s to present day. Early horror films relied on Gothic monsters and non-diegetic sound, while modern films employ graphic special effects and psychological plots. Societal fears also influence the genre, shifting from vampires and werewolves to threats like radiation and serial killers. By examining conventions through history, trends emerge showing what continues to scare audiences based on the technology and events of each era.
This document provides an analysis of Harold Pinter's play "The Birthday Party" and the concept of "comedy of menace". It defines comedy of menace as a term used to describe Pinter's early plays that feature comic elements but also produce a sense of terror or overwhelming tragic effect. The document discusses how menace evolves from actual and implied violence in "The Birthday Party" and analyzes some of the play's terrifying and funny scenes. It also briefly discusses the ups and downs in the relationship between India and the United States as another example of comedy of menace.
This document discusses how horror films reflect societal anxieties and taboos. It argues that slasher films in particular depict the punishment of youth, sexuality, and vice to satisfy audiences' desires and alleviate guilt. While B-movies focus more on gore and spectacle, psychological horror films like Black Swan depict more personal anxieties like mental illness in a way that audiences can relate to on a deeper level. The relationship between horror audiences and what they watch is complex, with audiences deriving satisfaction from witnessing the punishment of characters who indulge in taboos.
This document discusses the stories behind famous lines from movies and TV shows. It provides details on where the lines came from, whether they were in the original scripts or improvised, and how they became iconic. Several examples are given, including lines from All About Eve, Jerry Maguire, A League of Their Own, There Will Be Blood, Breaking Bad, The Terminator, Airplane!, Casablanca, Star Trek, and Forrest Gump.
Chief Characteristics Of Comedy Of Menace NiyatiVyas
This document provides an overview of the characteristics of comedy of menace as a genre. It notes that the term was coined by critic Irving Wardle to describe plays by David Campton and Harold Pinter. Comedies of menace feature both comic and tragic elements, keeping the audience both amused and on the brink of terror through an indefinable sense of fear. They often have simplistic settings and focus on the threat faced by characters from a vaguely defined powerful force. The sudden shifts between comedy and seriousness enhance the unsettling atmosphere.
This argument appeals to emotion through its use of strongly loaded language like "obliterate any possibility" and references to "pain and suffering." It seeks to elicit feelings of sympathy for students and outrage at a system that allegedly causes them harm. The argument would be strengthened by providing evidence and addressing counterarguments rather than relying primarily on emotional appeals.
This document discusses three strategies for emotional argumentation: appeals to emotion through word choice, rhetorical figures, and framing. It provides examples of positive and negative appeals to emotion, such as hope, fear, pity, guilt, ridicule, and disgust. It also discusses rhetorical figures like repetition, contrast and parallelism, disruption, and appeals like flattery, spite, and popular sentiment. The document advocates analyzing frames and metaphors used to understand what characteristics the speaker wants the frame to borrow or avoid in order to convince the intended audience.
The document discusses the history and development of horror films. It provides details on some of the earliest horror films and stories from the late 1700s. It then lists several prominent horror film production companies and their previous works. Next, it discusses some major awards for horror films. It concludes by outlining some key features of horror genre films and listing the top 5 highest grossing horror movies of all time.
The document discusses Harold Pinter's play "The Caretaker" and how it exemplifies the "comedy of menace" genre. It defines comedy of menace as a play that creates a sense of looming threat or danger through humorous situations and dialogue. In The Caretaker, Pinter uses elements like cramped settings, lack of communication between characters, and prolonged silences to cultivate an atmosphere of invisible menace and suspense for the audience. While humorous interactions occur, the audience is left questioning the characters' intentions and waiting for something threatening to possibly happen, though it never does.
Compare and contrast out of the blue and futilitySamantha Peplow
The document discusses the use of nature imagery and themes in the poems "Futility" by Wilfred Owen and "Out of the Blue" by Simon Armitage. It notes that in "Futility", the speaker expresses disbelief at his situation by referring to a bird flying by and the vast depth below. The document also analyzes how "Futility" creates inner conflict in the reader and how "Out of the Blue" describes an attack in an inhumane way unlike nature. Throughout "Futility", Owen refers to the sun and seeds waking to express his desperation and question if the destruction was worth it, showing nature reclaiming itself after years of war.
Out of the blue and falling leaves compare and conrast conflict daisy and callumSamantha Peplow
This document discusses and analyzes two poems: "Out of the Blue" and "Falling Leaves". For "Out of the Blue", it summarizes how the author uses sensory language like the image of a twirling cotton shirt to create vivid imagery that contrasts with the horror of terrorism. For "Falling Leaves", it discusses how the author Cole uses sensory language to convey her personal situation during war and the context of when the poem was written. It then analyzes how both authors create conflict through their use of contrasting sensory details.
Paper no.9. comedy of menace in birthday partyChintan Patel
Comedy of menace refers to plays that combine elements of comedy and tragedy to produce unease in the audience. It originated from a play by David Campton and was used to describe early works by Harold Pinter. Comedy of menace uses everyday settings and situations but creates an atmosphere of threat through implied or actual violence, uncertainty, and the juxtaposition of comedy and seriousness. It reflects the human predicament of living in an indifferent world surrounded by the unknown. Pinter's plays exemplify this technique through subtle menaces, cryptic dialogue, and the withholding of key information from the audience.
Harold Pinter was a British playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. Two of his most famous plays were The Birthday Party and The Dumbwaiter. He frequently used pauses, ellipses, and silence in his plays to depict the unpredictability of human conversation and create tension. In The Birthday Party, Meg's repetitive questioning of Petey is interrupted by pauses that reveal her challenging tone. Later, when Goldberg and McCann take Stanley away, their response after Petey's question is met with silence, heightening the mystery and menace of the situation. Pinter believed communication was frightening and that silence could communicate psychological stress and tension between characters.
For INTRODUCTION TO CURRICULUM PORTFOLIOJuliaGouveia6
This poem describes a "dark time" where soldiers have invaded the land. Nature responds with "awful sorrow" and red flowers hang their heads. It is a time of "oppression, dark metal, and tears" rather than festivals and celebration. The faces of men are "strained and anxious". The poem ends with the image of an invading soldier, "the man of death", watching the speaker's love sleep and aiming at their dreams, seeking to destroy hope for the future. Through metaphor, irony, oxymoron and rhetorical questions, the poem conveys a mood of scorn, lamentation and sorrow for the suffering people and land having their freedom and dreams destroyed by oppressive invasion.
Classical tragedies typically involve one setting, one day, and one to three characters, focus on religious and political issues of the time, and use formal language. In contrast, modern tragedies contain more characters and subplots, focus on societal issues like death and disease, involve unexpected plot twists, and have an intense pace. Both aim to convey meaningful messages to audiences through dramatic storytelling.
This document provides an introduction to comedy for students studying William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing. It begins with discussion questions about common features, story structure, what makes stories comic, and favorite types of comedy. It then covers definitions of comedy from Aristotle and other sources. Key elements of Greek, Roman, and dramatic comedy are outlined. Students are tasked with discussing these elements and finding examples in Much Ado About Nothing. The document provides context and background information to help students understand different aspects of comedy as a literary genre.
This document provides an in-depth analysis of Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est". The poem describes a gas attack on a group of exhausted soldiers during WWI. One soldier is unable to get his gas mask on in time and suffers a horrible death that is vividly depicted. Owen uses graphic imagery and sensory details to portray the horrific reality of war and argue that dying for one's country is not noble as many claimed. The analysis examines the poem's themes, imagery, literary devices, tone, and Owen's purpose in criticizing those who romanticized war like journalist Jessie Pope.
The document discusses paradoxes, which are statements that seem contradictory but express a truth. It provides several examples of paradoxes from literature, including "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" from A Tale of Two Cities, and "the child is father of the man" from My Heart Leaps Up. Common types of paradoxes discussed are statements where opposite things are said to be true at the same time, such as "war is peace" from 1984. The document explains that paradoxes can reveal deeper truths by surprising the reader or observer.
This document discusses the history of psychological thriller films from the 1950s to the 2000s. It highlights several influential films from each decade that exemplified elements of the psychological thriller genre. Rear Window and Psycho from the 1950s-1960s, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, focused on the mental states of characters and generating suspense. Films from later decades like Dead Ringers and The Mist continued exploring themes of identity, perception and humanity contending with dark forces both external and internal.
This document provides an overview of horror films including their history, genres, themes, and audience reception. It discusses how horror films aim to frighten audiences while also entertaining them. Early horror films were influenced by Gothic literature and silent German films. More recently, religious themes have become popular. The document also examines the portrayal of gender in horror films and how this has changed over time with women increasingly depicted as strong protagonists. It explores theories around audience reception and how meanings can differ between encoding and decoding of messages in films.
Paper 9: Political Reading of The Birthday Partyjanki2090
This presentation highlights the political aspects of the context of The Birthday Party, a play written by Harold Pinter. Harold Pinter is an English playwright who achieved international success as one of the most complex post world war II dramatists.
The document is a student paper summarizing connections between literature studied in class and modern media sources. It provides 5 examples comparing quotes from works like Heart of Darkness and The Stranger to photos of celebrities, movies, and news stories. The assignments asked students to relate class texts to present-day media. The student found the task entertaining and had many options to choose from when selecting quotes to analyze in comparison to modern media images.
The poem "This is the Dark Time My Love" describes a period of oppression in British Guyana's history when the country was pushing for independence from Britain. In response, Britain deported soldiers to subdue the calls for independence. The soldiers' presence caused fear among the people, who were afraid to advocate for their dream of an independent nation. Imagery in the poem depicts the soldiers trampling the land and flowers bowing their heads in sorrow over the country's turmoil. The poem shifts between describing the effect on the people and land under military occupation.
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter is an absurdist play that leaves the audience feeling unsettled. It depicts the arrival of two mysterious men, Goldberg and McCann, at a boarding house to interrogate Stanley about his identity. Through contradictory dialogue and a lack of expository information, the play creates an atmosphere of ambiguity, uncertainty, and menace. Stanley becomes a victim as Goldberg and McCann psychologically break him down, reflecting the destruction of the individual voice in society. The play uses jokes and humor to create tension and force the audience into an uncomfortable position of siding with either the aggressor or victim.
This document defines and provides examples of 20 common figures of speech: alliteration, anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, euphemism, hyperbole, litotes, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, personification, pun, irony, simile, understatement. Figures of speech use distinctive wording to achieve special rhetorical effects and are often used in literature and everyday language without conscious thought. Examples are given to illustrate each figure of speech.
The document provides an overview of rhetorical devices and examples of common devices used to persuade audiences. It defines rhetorical devices as stylistic techniques used by authors and speakers to impact their audience. Some key devices discussed include similes, metaphors, personification, rhetorical questions, allusions, hyperbole, euphemisms, repetition through anaphora and epistrophe, parallelism, juxtaposition, understatement, and oxymorons. Examples are provided for each device to illustrate how they can be effectively used in writing and speeches.
This argument appeals to emotion through its use of strongly loaded language like "obliterate any possibility" and references to "pain and suffering." It seeks to elicit feelings of sympathy for students and outrage at a system that allegedly causes them harm. The argument would be strengthened by providing evidence and addressing counterarguments rather than relying primarily on emotional appeals.
This document discusses three strategies for emotional argumentation: appeals to emotion through word choice, rhetorical figures, and framing. It provides examples of positive and negative appeals to emotion, such as hope, fear, pity, guilt, ridicule, and disgust. It also discusses rhetorical figures like repetition, contrast and parallelism, disruption, and appeals like flattery, spite, and popular sentiment. The document advocates analyzing frames and metaphors used to understand what characteristics the speaker wants the frame to borrow or avoid in order to convince the intended audience.
The document discusses the history and development of horror films. It provides details on some of the earliest horror films and stories from the late 1700s. It then lists several prominent horror film production companies and their previous works. Next, it discusses some major awards for horror films. It concludes by outlining some key features of horror genre films and listing the top 5 highest grossing horror movies of all time.
The document discusses Harold Pinter's play "The Caretaker" and how it exemplifies the "comedy of menace" genre. It defines comedy of menace as a play that creates a sense of looming threat or danger through humorous situations and dialogue. In The Caretaker, Pinter uses elements like cramped settings, lack of communication between characters, and prolonged silences to cultivate an atmosphere of invisible menace and suspense for the audience. While humorous interactions occur, the audience is left questioning the characters' intentions and waiting for something threatening to possibly happen, though it never does.
Compare and contrast out of the blue and futilitySamantha Peplow
The document discusses the use of nature imagery and themes in the poems "Futility" by Wilfred Owen and "Out of the Blue" by Simon Armitage. It notes that in "Futility", the speaker expresses disbelief at his situation by referring to a bird flying by and the vast depth below. The document also analyzes how "Futility" creates inner conflict in the reader and how "Out of the Blue" describes an attack in an inhumane way unlike nature. Throughout "Futility", Owen refers to the sun and seeds waking to express his desperation and question if the destruction was worth it, showing nature reclaiming itself after years of war.
Out of the blue and falling leaves compare and conrast conflict daisy and callumSamantha Peplow
This document discusses and analyzes two poems: "Out of the Blue" and "Falling Leaves". For "Out of the Blue", it summarizes how the author uses sensory language like the image of a twirling cotton shirt to create vivid imagery that contrasts with the horror of terrorism. For "Falling Leaves", it discusses how the author Cole uses sensory language to convey her personal situation during war and the context of when the poem was written. It then analyzes how both authors create conflict through their use of contrasting sensory details.
Paper no.9. comedy of menace in birthday partyChintan Patel
Comedy of menace refers to plays that combine elements of comedy and tragedy to produce unease in the audience. It originated from a play by David Campton and was used to describe early works by Harold Pinter. Comedy of menace uses everyday settings and situations but creates an atmosphere of threat through implied or actual violence, uncertainty, and the juxtaposition of comedy and seriousness. It reflects the human predicament of living in an indifferent world surrounded by the unknown. Pinter's plays exemplify this technique through subtle menaces, cryptic dialogue, and the withholding of key information from the audience.
Harold Pinter was a British playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. Two of his most famous plays were The Birthday Party and The Dumbwaiter. He frequently used pauses, ellipses, and silence in his plays to depict the unpredictability of human conversation and create tension. In The Birthday Party, Meg's repetitive questioning of Petey is interrupted by pauses that reveal her challenging tone. Later, when Goldberg and McCann take Stanley away, their response after Petey's question is met with silence, heightening the mystery and menace of the situation. Pinter believed communication was frightening and that silence could communicate psychological stress and tension between characters.
For INTRODUCTION TO CURRICULUM PORTFOLIOJuliaGouveia6
This poem describes a "dark time" where soldiers have invaded the land. Nature responds with "awful sorrow" and red flowers hang their heads. It is a time of "oppression, dark metal, and tears" rather than festivals and celebration. The faces of men are "strained and anxious". The poem ends with the image of an invading soldier, "the man of death", watching the speaker's love sleep and aiming at their dreams, seeking to destroy hope for the future. Through metaphor, irony, oxymoron and rhetorical questions, the poem conveys a mood of scorn, lamentation and sorrow for the suffering people and land having their freedom and dreams destroyed by oppressive invasion.
Classical tragedies typically involve one setting, one day, and one to three characters, focus on religious and political issues of the time, and use formal language. In contrast, modern tragedies contain more characters and subplots, focus on societal issues like death and disease, involve unexpected plot twists, and have an intense pace. Both aim to convey meaningful messages to audiences through dramatic storytelling.
This document provides an introduction to comedy for students studying William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing. It begins with discussion questions about common features, story structure, what makes stories comic, and favorite types of comedy. It then covers definitions of comedy from Aristotle and other sources. Key elements of Greek, Roman, and dramatic comedy are outlined. Students are tasked with discussing these elements and finding examples in Much Ado About Nothing. The document provides context and background information to help students understand different aspects of comedy as a literary genre.
This document provides an in-depth analysis of Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est". The poem describes a gas attack on a group of exhausted soldiers during WWI. One soldier is unable to get his gas mask on in time and suffers a horrible death that is vividly depicted. Owen uses graphic imagery and sensory details to portray the horrific reality of war and argue that dying for one's country is not noble as many claimed. The analysis examines the poem's themes, imagery, literary devices, tone, and Owen's purpose in criticizing those who romanticized war like journalist Jessie Pope.
The document discusses paradoxes, which are statements that seem contradictory but express a truth. It provides several examples of paradoxes from literature, including "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" from A Tale of Two Cities, and "the child is father of the man" from My Heart Leaps Up. Common types of paradoxes discussed are statements where opposite things are said to be true at the same time, such as "war is peace" from 1984. The document explains that paradoxes can reveal deeper truths by surprising the reader or observer.
This document discusses the history of psychological thriller films from the 1950s to the 2000s. It highlights several influential films from each decade that exemplified elements of the psychological thriller genre. Rear Window and Psycho from the 1950s-1960s, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, focused on the mental states of characters and generating suspense. Films from later decades like Dead Ringers and The Mist continued exploring themes of identity, perception and humanity contending with dark forces both external and internal.
This document provides an overview of horror films including their history, genres, themes, and audience reception. It discusses how horror films aim to frighten audiences while also entertaining them. Early horror films were influenced by Gothic literature and silent German films. More recently, religious themes have become popular. The document also examines the portrayal of gender in horror films and how this has changed over time with women increasingly depicted as strong protagonists. It explores theories around audience reception and how meanings can differ between encoding and decoding of messages in films.
Paper 9: Political Reading of The Birthday Partyjanki2090
This presentation highlights the political aspects of the context of The Birthday Party, a play written by Harold Pinter. Harold Pinter is an English playwright who achieved international success as one of the most complex post world war II dramatists.
The document is a student paper summarizing connections between literature studied in class and modern media sources. It provides 5 examples comparing quotes from works like Heart of Darkness and The Stranger to photos of celebrities, movies, and news stories. The assignments asked students to relate class texts to present-day media. The student found the task entertaining and had many options to choose from when selecting quotes to analyze in comparison to modern media images.
The poem "This is the Dark Time My Love" describes a period of oppression in British Guyana's history when the country was pushing for independence from Britain. In response, Britain deported soldiers to subdue the calls for independence. The soldiers' presence caused fear among the people, who were afraid to advocate for their dream of an independent nation. Imagery in the poem depicts the soldiers trampling the land and flowers bowing their heads in sorrow over the country's turmoil. The poem shifts between describing the effect on the people and land under military occupation.
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter is an absurdist play that leaves the audience feeling unsettled. It depicts the arrival of two mysterious men, Goldberg and McCann, at a boarding house to interrogate Stanley about his identity. Through contradictory dialogue and a lack of expository information, the play creates an atmosphere of ambiguity, uncertainty, and menace. Stanley becomes a victim as Goldberg and McCann psychologically break him down, reflecting the destruction of the individual voice in society. The play uses jokes and humor to create tension and force the audience into an uncomfortable position of siding with either the aggressor or victim.
This document defines and provides examples of 20 common figures of speech: alliteration, anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, euphemism, hyperbole, litotes, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, personification, pun, irony, simile, understatement. Figures of speech use distinctive wording to achieve special rhetorical effects and are often used in literature and everyday language without conscious thought. Examples are given to illustrate each figure of speech.
The document provides an overview of rhetorical devices and examples of common devices used to persuade audiences. It defines rhetorical devices as stylistic techniques used by authors and speakers to impact their audience. Some key devices discussed include similes, metaphors, personification, rhetorical questions, allusions, hyperbole, euphemisms, repetition through anaphora and epistrophe, parallelism, juxtaposition, understatement, and oxymorons. Examples are provided for each device to illustrate how they can be effectively used in writing and speeches.
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This document provides definitions and examples of various types of figures of speech, including:
- Alliteration, anaphora, assonance, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, simile, metonymy, onomatopoeia, paradox, personification, pun, synecdoche, understatement, antithesis, euphemism, oxymoron, and tautology. It also discusses allegory, aporia, and provides examples of how these figures of speech are used in literature and speech.
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EXERCISE9:
QuotingCorrectly
A. Correct the errors in the following sentences:
“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty,” remarked the boxer Muhammad Ali, has wasted thirty years of his life
Do you agree with Jerry Seinfeld that: “A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking?”
H. L. Mencken cynically remarked that, “Nobody ever went broke un- derestimating the intelligence of the American public.
“It has been my experience, said Abraham Lincoln that “folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
The American historian Barbara Tuchman wrote about the ineptitude of generals, arguing that: “The power to command frequently causes fail- ure to think”.
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Obesity is on the rise around the world, says Ann Becker. The Harvard anthropologist reports that the “Sudden increase in eating disorders among teenage girls in Fiji may be linked to the arrival of television in the 1990s and to “Western ideals of beauty.”
Donald Trump offered this advice—“there’s the old story about the boxer after a fight who said: ‘that wasn’t so tough.” What was really tough was my father hitting me on the head with a hammer.”
Before the Revolutionary War, Patrick Henry made a passionate speech, “is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery”? “Forbid it, Almighty God”! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”!
B. Use quotations from the following group as directed:
Choose one quotation and write a sentence that introduces a direct quotation with separation.
Choose a second quotation and write a sentence that introduces a di- rect quotation with integration.
Choose a third quotation and write a sentence that interrupts a quo- tation with a citation in the middle.
I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to. (Elvis Presley)
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. (Juvenal, Roman poet who lived around 100 AD)
I don’t know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with — stone clubs. (Albert Einstein)
Making predictions is difficult, particularly about the future. (Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer)
Stage fright is always waiting outside the door. You either battle or walk away. (Laurence Olivier, British stage and film actor)
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. (James Bald- win, American novelist)
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help them- selves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. (Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist)
You can’t say civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a ne.
Lecture 18 - The Turn to Speculative FictionPatrick Mooney
Eighteenth lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
This document provides a list of 20 questions for a prelims exam. The questions cover topics like literature, movies, word puzzles, and more. They range from identifying characters, titles, and meanings to analyzing quotes, riddles, and logical reasoning puzzles. The questions are multiple choice and worth 2 marks each, for a total of 40 marks.
The passage discusses different types of rhetorical devices used in language including metaphors, euphemisms, antithesis, alliteration, chiasmus, and metonymy. It provides examples of each device being used in speeches, quotes, and literature to convey ideas in impactful or thought-provoking ways.
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This document defines and provides examples of various literary terms and concepts including: character, characterization, climax, conflict, connotation, dialogue, diction, figurative language, flashback, foreshadowing, hyperbole, imagery, metaphor, personification, plot, point of view, resolution, setting, simile, style, symbol, theme, and tone. It explains what each term means and illustrates some of the terms with short excerpts from well-known literary works.
The PM-Kisan scheme provides eligible farmer families with financial support of Rs. 6,000 per year, distributed in three installments of Rs. 2,000 each. More than 10 lakh farmers will receive a total of Rs. 20,000 crore under the 12th installment of PM Kisan. To check your eligibility and status, you can visit the PM Kisan website and search by Aadhaar number or account number. The scheme defines eligible farmers as family farmer units with landholding of up to 2 hectares. Professionals such as doctors, engineers, lawyers and former/present government employees are not eligible for the scheme.
PM Antyodaya Anna Yojana (PMAAY) is a public distribution system scheme in India launched in 2023 that aims to ensure food security and eliminate hunger. It provides subsidized food grains, rice, wheat, and sugar to the poorest of the poor. Eligible beneficiaries include families with an annual income of Rs. 10,000 or less in rural and urban areas, including daily wage laborers, widows, the elderly, and the disabled. The identification of beneficiaries is carried out by state governments who prepare tentative lists at the village and urban local body levels for approval. Once approved, eligible families are issued special colored ration cards under the PMAAY scheme.
PM Antyodaya Anna Yojana (PMAAY) is a public distribution system scheme in India launched in 2023 that aims to ensure food security and eliminate hunger. It provides subsidized food grains, rice, wheat, and sugar to the poorest of the poor. Eligible beneficiaries include families with an annual income of Rs. 10,000 or less in rural and urban areas, including daily wage laborers, widows, the elderly, and the disabled. The identification of beneficiaries is carried out by state governments who prepare tentative lists at the village and urban local body levels for approval. Once approved, eligible families are issued special colored ration cards under the PMAAY scheme.
The Haryana Economic Survey Analysis 2022-23 document provides an overview of the state of Haryana's economy and budget for 2022-23. Some key highlights include:
- The Gross State Domestic Product for 2022-23 is projected to be Rs. 9,94,195 crore, an 11% growth over 2021-22.
- Revenue receipts for 2022-23 are estimated to be Rs. 1,07,192 crore, a 15% increase over 2021-22. Expenditure is estimated to be Rs. 1,42,204 crore, a 14% increase.
- The fiscal deficit is targeted at Rs. 35,012 crore or 3
The Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) of Haryana for 2022-23 is projected to be Rs. 9,94,195 crore, a growth of 11% over the revised estimate for 2021-22. Total receipts for 2022-23 are estimated to be Rs. 1,07,192 crore, an increase of 15% over 2021-22. Total expenditure for 2022-23 is targeted at Rs. 1,42,204 crore, up 14% from 2021-22. The fiscal deficit for 2022-23 is targeted at Rs. 35,012 crore or 3.52% of the GSDP.
This document outlines an activity to compare measures of human development between more and less economically developed countries using the Human Development Index. The HDI is a summary measure that takes into account three dimensions: health as measured by life expectancy, education as measured by literacy and schooling, and income as measured by GDP per capita. Students are instructed to watch videos from the UNDP on the HDI and human development reports and answer questions about which countries have been most and least successful in achieving development and the indicators and obstacles involved.
Weather is defined as current meteorological conditions such as temperature, wind, and precipitation over a particular area and short time period. Weather conditions describe typical weather phenomena for a region over 1-2 weeks. Climate is the long term average weather conditions over at least 30 years for a specific location. Climate components that determine weather include radiation, air pressure, humidity, temperature, wind, evapotranspiration, precipitation, condensation, and cloud cover. Climate is influenced by both climate components and climate factors such as latitude, altitude, land/water patterns, relief, vegetation cover, and exposure. The characteristics and interactions between the different spheres that make up a watershed - atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and
The document summarizes the processes of evaporation and condensation. It explains that evaporation occurs when liquid water is transformed into water vapor due to heat. Condensation is the opposite process where water vapor condenses into liquid water due to cooling and loss of heat. The document lists several factors that affect the rates of evaporation and condensation such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, and composition of water. It also describes different forms of condensation including dew, frost, fog, mist, haze, smog, and clouds.
The document summarizes the processes of evaporation and condensation. It explains that evaporation occurs when liquid water is transformed into water vapor due to heat. Condensation is the opposite process where water vapor condenses into liquid water due to cooling and loss of heat. The document lists several factors that affect the rates of evaporation and condensation such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, and composition of water. It also describes different forms of condensation including dew, frost, fog, mist, haze, smog, and clouds.
Tropical cyclones that occur in different regions are known by different names. Hurricanes form in the Atlantic Ocean and Northeast Pacific, typhoons form in the Northwest Pacific, and cyclones form in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean. While they have different names depending on their location, they are all essentially the same type of rotating storm system developing over warm ocean waters. The key differences are in the areas they affect and their peak seasons, with hurricanes affecting the Caribbean and US east coast and typhoons affecting Southeast Asia, for example. They are classified using the same wind speed scales to indicate their intensity.
Rapid urbanization in Asia has increased populations in disaster-prone areas, raising vulnerability. Disaster mitigation measures like earthquake-resistant infrastructure have rarely been implemented in most Asian countries. The Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Program demonstrated effective mitigation, and there is now significant demand for urban disaster risk management in the region and beyond.
An earthquake is caused by a sudden release of energy in the earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are primarily caused by the movement of tectonic plates deep underground. The location where the earthquake starts is called the hypocenter, and the point directly above on the surface is the epicenter. Earthquakes can cause significant damage through ground shaking, surface ruptures, landslides, liquefaction, tsunamis and fires. While earthquakes also lead to some benefits like forming natural springs and mineral resources, they typically have many negative effects such as damage to buildings and infrastructure, loss of lives, and economic impacts.
India is highly vulnerable to natural disasters due to its geography. Over 12% of India's land is prone to flooding, 68% is at risk of droughts or landslides, and 58.6% could experience earthquakes. Recent heavy rains in Chennai highlight the risks cities face from extreme weather. Most cities lack adequate infrastructure like drainage to handle disasters, with only a small percentage having official master plans. Unregulated development has reduced green spaces and invaded natural areas. Better urban planning is needed that incorporates climate resilience, as is greater coordination between local, state, and national disaster management authorities to mitigate disaster impacts. Without making cities more sustainable, the economic growth fueled by urbanization will be threatened by increased natural disasters.
The document provides information on climate change, including what it is, how it is measured, its causes, and its effects. It defines climate change as a significant variation in weather conditions over decades, differentiating it from normal weather variability. It describes how climate change is caused by both natural factors and human activities like burning fossil fuels, with human factors being the dominant cause of current warming. The effects of climate change include more extreme weather, rising sea levels, health impacts, and threatened ecosystems. Solutions discussed include the Paris Agreement and developing clean energy technologies.
The document discusses gender inequality and the gender budget in India. It notes that women face social, economic, and health inequalities in India. The 2022 gender budget allocation increased 11.5% but declined as a percentage of total expenditure. While the budget aims to address women's challenges, it fails to prioritize critical issues exacerbated by the pandemic like lack of women-centered job opportunities and support for women-led MSMEs. The gender budget remains below 5% of total expenditure and 1% of GDP. Increased allocation is concentrated in a few schemes rather than mainstreaming gender across sectors.
The document outlines 10 key women empowerment schemes in India:
1) Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme ensures survival, protection and education of girl children.
2) Working Women Hostel Scheme provides safe accommodation and daycare facilities for working women and their children.
3) One Stop Centre Scheme facilitates emergency and legal services for women affected by violence under one roof.
4) Women Helpline Scheme provides 24/7 emergency support to women affected by violence via toll-free helpline.
5) Mahila E-Haat provides an online platform for women entrepreneurs to sell their products.
6) Mahila Police Volunteers scheme aims to create a safe environment and encourage women to join the police
The document outlines India's National Policy for the Empowerment of Women from 2001. It discusses the constitutional basis for gender equality and the advancement of women. However, it notes that while goals have been established, a gap remains between these goals and the actual status of women. The policy's goal is to advance, develop, and empower women through creating an enabling environment, ensuring enjoyment of rights and access to opportunities, and changing attitudes. It prescribes legal and economic reforms and mainstreaming gender in development to achieve these aims.
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Philippine Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan (EPP) CurriculumMJDuyan
(𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝟏𝟎𝟎) (𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟏)-𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐬
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐏𝐏 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬:
- Understand the goals and objectives of the Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan (EPP) curriculum, recognizing its importance in fostering practical life skills and values among students. Students will also be able to identify the key components and subjects covered, such as agriculture, home economics, industrial arts, and information and communication technology.
𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫:
-Define entrepreneurship, distinguishing it from general business activities by emphasizing its focus on innovation, risk-taking, and value creation. Students will describe the characteristics and traits of successful entrepreneurs, including their roles and responsibilities, and discuss the broader economic and social impacts of entrepreneurial activities on both local and global scales.
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Top 20 figures_of_speech
1. The Top 20 Figures of Speech
Alliteration
Repetition of an initial consonant sound.
"The daily diary of the American dream."
(slogan of The Wall Street Journal)
Anaphora
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive
clauses or verses.
"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a
home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun."
(Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely)
Antithesis
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
"You're easy on the eyes
Hard on the heart."
(Terri Clark)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was
the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was
the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the
winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all
going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."
(Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)
Apostrophe
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some
abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
"Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own."
(Lorenz Hart, "Blue Moon")
"I believe it is the lost wisdom of my grandfather
Whose ways were his own and who died before I could ask.
"Forerunner, I would like to say, silent pilot,
Little dry death, future,
Your indirections are as strange to me
As my own. I know so little that anything
You might tell me would be a revelation."
(W.S. Merwin, "Sire")
"O stranger of the future!
O inconceivable being!
2. Assonance
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring
words.
"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
(Thin Lizzy, "With Love")
Chiasmus
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced
against the first but with the parts reversed.
"Nice to see you, to see you, nice!"
(British TV entertainer Bruce Forsyth)
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
(Cormac McCarthy, The Road, Knopf, 2006)
"I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me."
(Ovid)
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
(William Shakespeare, Macbeth I.i)
"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original,
and the part that is original is not good."
(Samuel Johnson)
Euphemism
The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively
explicit.
Pre-owned for used or second-hand; enhanced interrogation for torture; wind for belch
or fart; convenience fee for surcharge
Hyperbole
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of
emphasis or heightened effect.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and I can say
without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together."
(Kent Brockman, The Simpsons)
“I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse!”
3. Irony
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A
statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the
appearance or presentation of the idea.
"It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, launder became a dirty word."
(William Zinsser)
"I'm aware of the irony of appearing on TV in order to decry it."
(Sideshow Bob, The Simpsons)
Litotes
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative
is expressed by negating its opposite.
The grave's a fine a private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace."
(Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress")
"We are not amused."
(attributed to Queen Victoria)
"I'm not doing this for my health."
(O.J. Simpson, in a paid appearance at a horror comic book convention
Metaphor
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have
something important in common.
"The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner."
(Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa")
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another
with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of
describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
such as "crown" for "royalty"). Metonymy is also the rhetorical strategy of describing
something indirectly by referring to things around it, such as describing someone's clothing to
characterize the individual.
"Detroit is still hard at work on an SUV that runs on rain forest trees and panda blood."
(Conan O'Brien)
"The B.L.T. left without paying."
(waitress referring to a customer)
4. Onomatopoeia
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the
objects or actions they refer to.
Plop
Pow
Wow
Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side
by side.
"act naturally," "original copy," "found missing," "alone together," "peace force," "definite
possibility," "terribly pleased," "real phony," "ill health," "turn up missing," "jumbo shrimp,"
"alone together," “pretty ugly”
Paradox
A statement that appears to contradict itself.
"War is peace."
"Freedom is slavery."
"Ignorance is strength."
(George Orwell, 1984)
"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that concern for
one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a
rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon
as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be
crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he
flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had
to."
(Joseph Heller, Catch-22)
"Paradox of Success: the more successful a policy is in warding off some unwanted
condition the less necessary it will be thought to maintain it. If a threat is successfully
suppressed, people naturally wonder why we should any longer bother with it."
(James Piereson, "On the Paradox of Success." Real Clear Politics, Sep. 11, 2006)
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
(C.S. Lewis to his godchild, Lucy Barfield, to whom he dedicated The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe)
Personification
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed
with human qualities or abilities.
5. "Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there."
(proverb quoted by Christopher Moltisanti, The Sopranos)
Pun
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and
sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
"When it pours, it reigns."
(slogan of Michelin tires)
"What food these morsels be!"
(slogan of Heinz pickles, 1938)
"American Home has an edifice complex."
(slogan of American Home magazine)
"Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight"
(Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night")
"Look deep into our ryes."
(slogan of Wigler's Bakery)
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
(Fred Allen)
A vulture boards a plane, carrying two dead possums. The attendant looks at him and
says, "I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger."
Simile
A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two
fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
Synecdoche
A figure of speech is which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole
for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the
material for the thing made from it. (form of metonymy)
9/11
white-collar criminals
Understatement
A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a
situation seem less important or serious than it is.
"I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain."
(Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye, by J. D. Salinger)