English, 21.01.2022 20:00 bigboyethanlanp2s9lm
1.What exercise is to the body, reading is to the mind. There are different purposes of reading. One of them is deriving pleasure. Children reading for their pleasure rarely stop to ask about the words. They want to get on with the story. If the word is important, they can usually make a good guess about what it is. âHe drew an arrow from his quiverâ. Easy to see that a quiver is some sort of gadget to put arrows in. More complicated words they figure out by meeting them in different contexts. People learn to read well and get good vocabulary, from books, not work books or dictionaries. 2. As a kid I read years ahead of my age, but I never looked up words in dictionaries, and didnât even have a dictionary. In my lifetime I donât believe I have looked at even as many as fifty words â neither have most good readers. Most people donât know how dictionaries are made. 3.Each new dictionary starts from scratch. The company making the dictionary employs thousands of âeditorsâ, to each of whom they give a list of words. The job of the editor is to collect as many examples as possible of the ways in which these words are actually used. They look for the words in books, newspapers, and so forth and every time they find one, they cut out or copy that particular example. 4.Then after reading these examples they decide âfrom the contextâ what the writer in each case had meant by the words. From these they make definitions. A dictionary in other words, is a collection of
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English, 22.06.2019 00:00
Time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differences in circumstances.there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke, the language in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of the same proverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand how this story can be applied to their own lives.
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English, 22.06.2019 02:00
Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. âyou make me feel uncivilized, daisy,â i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. âcanât you talk about crops or something? â i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. âcivilizationâs going to pieces,â broke out tom violently. âiâve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read âthe rise of the coloured empiresâ by this man goddard? â âwhy, no,â i answered, rather surprised by his tone. âwell, itâs a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we donât look out the white race will beâwill be utterly submerged. itâs all scientific stuff; itâs been proved.â in this passage, tomâs ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile
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English, 22.06.2019 05:20
Which lines from ovidâs "pyramus and thisbe" establish setting?
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