ENGL109 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Jargon, Grammar, Trust Law
12 Oct 2018
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ENGL109
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Introduction Lecture
About English Language
- It sucks
- Oral
- Iconic
- Hybrid
- Germanic origins (Italian, french, spanish, latin)
- Symbolic Language (universal agreement)
- > 26 squiggly lines
- Inefficient (takes considerable amount of time to learn since
childhood)
Library -> Captures all the human languages.
→ Encoding: writing and portraying
→ Decoding: reading and understanding > Aim of the lecture
Known as the ‘apprentice language’: learning the language
Example readings:
Narrative:
The Comfort zone pg 628-644
Report:
Down and Out in the magic kingdom pg 662-674
Argument:
Why America should outlaw spanking pg 699-703
Evaluation:
The next day pg 742-744
Causal Analysis:
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How twitter is reshaping the future of storytelling pg 762-766
Proposal:
The cosmic perspective pg 822-829
Literary Analysis:
Holden raises hell pg 904-910
Rhetorical Analysis:
Johnny Depp’s Tonto Misstep: Race and the lone ranger pg 928-932
Rhetorical Analysis pt. 2:
The other car pg 921-924
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Document Summary
Inefficient (takes considerable amount of time to learn since childhood) Decoding: reading and understanding > aim of the lecture. Known as the apprentice language": learning the language. Down and out in the magic kingdom pg 662-674. How twitter is reshaping the future of storytelling pg 762-766. Johnny depp"s tonto misstep: race and the lone ranger pg 928-932. Narrative: representation of art in an event or story. Setup: introduce setting, characters, themes, 2nd biggest paragraph. Resolution: obstacles are overcome, lessons are learned. Fetishizaion: focusing on one thing, e. g. justin trudeau and his hair. Don"t over explain things like contemporary writers. Angle: unique vantage point of a narrative. Defamiliarization - making something familiar different - weird. Told from a different perspective or time period. Angle is how you want to present the narrative. Cs lewis great literature lets us know we are not alone . And at the beginning of the sentence makes tone sound biblical or epic.
