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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (born August 6, 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, England—died October 6, 1892, Aldworth, Surrey), English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. He was raised to the peerage in 1884.
Tennyson was the fourth of 12 children, born into an old Lincolnshire family, his father a rector. He was sent in 1815 to Louth grammar school—where he was unhappy. He left in 1820, but, though home conditions were difficult, his father managed to give
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A. The structure of the English novel remained unaltered till the second decade of the 20th century. Its origins were essentially bourgeois and the themes were mainly social according to the values accepted by the society of the time. The novelist was expected to mediate between his characters and the reader, telling significant events in chronological order. B. The shift from the Victorian to the modern novel was caused by a gradual transformation of British society, which in a few years passed
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ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE: The average settlers were young men. Almost half of the population were slaves and indentured servants, who cannot pay for their passages and someone buy them to work for several years until they cover the cost of the trip. Report: Journey to Pennsylvania. Gottlieb Mittelberger was an indentured servant who wrote this text to report the harshness of the journey and his purpose was to prevent other people from going to New Land and leaving fatherland.PROBLEMS ABOUT THE HOURNEY:
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MetalinguisticFunction It is the function oriented towards the code. It consists in the use of the code (language) to discuss or describe itself. It is the function typically fulfilled by grammars or works of linguistics
Stanza John Donne. The Canonization
Microstyle Similes, parallelisms, anaphoric references, ellipsis, rhymed verse with end-stopped and run-on lines, etc.
Suspension Poetry, drama, and novels create worlds of fictions in which readers accepts what is called the “suspension of disbelief”,
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Socialization Use the term to describe a lifelong process in which you become integrated with your society.,We are constantly learning our society,We learn the norms and expectations, Both Absolute and Relative
Darkheim’s Social IntegrationWhen an individual is brought into society
AbsoluteEvery Society that ever existed socializes it’s kids
RelativeWhat you are being socialized into differs from society to society. Different periods of history. Gender roles and Social class are also relative.
3 Necessary
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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome (1911)
Topics/Themes: Love; Poverty, conditions on the countryside; Moral values/rules; Conflict between the individual and the community(personal inclinations and sense of duty to community); Fate (heredity and natural environment), determinism, choices, no free will (an individual might have a will and take choices but he’s unable to change fate); Conflict between illusion and failure; Failure of communication; Isolation, winter; Gender issues; Marriage.
-Ethan is unable
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