English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Exaggeration, Numeracy, Black Death
24 Dec 2015
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Moralistic literature to convince people/children to be morally good. Encourages convenient behavior rather than good behavior. Existed as spoken word poems before being written down. Very old, short and easy to remember. Earliest form of children"s literature, often for very young kids (not. Often contain senseless violence not often recognized i. e. jack and reading) Very simple plot often things going up and then coming back down: jack and jill, itsy bitsy spider, hickory dickory dock. Music/song help with ensuring they are remembered. Often done with bodies and mouths rather than just with eyes": london bridge, itsy bitsy spider, ring around the rosy < about black plague, this little piggy. Predictability i. e. starts and ends with the same line. Words are there because of the sound they make hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle . For early literacy skills sounding out letter sounds and syllabus. For numeracy skills: ba ba black sheep, 5 little monkeys.
