Literature

Task 10 1. Find the meanings to the following expressions: - For want of asking Just because you didn't ask - Upon my word! I swear - Connect yourself well Relationships with people in good social situations - Pray do Please do it Be left quite to your own powers Do something without anybody's help 2. Read the following extract from Jane Austen's novel Emma and answer these questions: - What is the main purpose of the letter? It is a marriage proposal - What is Emma's opinion of the language and style of the letter? ''a very good letter, There weren't grammatical errors''. The language was good and unaffected. It was not very long, but very good sense, warm attachment, liberality, propriety. It isn't the style of a woman. Too strong an concise: not diffuse enough for a woman. - What is Emma's opinion of the writer of the letter? A sensible man ''Thinks strongly and clearly''. His thoughts naturally ...

Kong's island  Help! Screamed captain James Conrad. He and his men stuck in a storm on sea. It was the fifth of July 1933. They were on a voyage of discovery. But unfortunately they lost in the storm and they died, except captain Conrad. He stranded on an uninhabited island. He laid for hours on the ground.  He woked up, unknowing where his other crew members were. But when he looked around he knew enough. There were body parts of his man everywhere. He knew that he has to survive until there are coming other man looking for him. He heard a roar in the distance. It frightened him, but on the other hand also curious. So he went further into the jungle until he came into an open place. In the open space, there was a footprint but not a normal one. No, it was 10 times as large as a normal footprint. The footprint resembled a foot of a monkey. But then a very big monkey. After walking for 2 hours, he saw the great ape in the distance. He was monstrously big. He also saw a ...

1. Explain - in your own words - how the shipwreck happend. The seamen saw a rock within 200 meters distance from the boat. Because of, the wind the driven directly upon the rock and the boat immediately split. 2. How would you describe Gulliver's response to this new 'peculiar company'? When he discovered he was tied up by some little humans, he was very astonished. 3. Further along the storyline we hear that Gulliver washed ashore on an Island. Could this be a real Island? Explain your answer. Yes, the Island were he was was washed up, could be a real Island. The little people who lived on the Island are 6 inches long. This can't be real. 4. Watch this clip of Jack Black's adaptation of Gulliver's Travels. What similarities or difference are there? Similarities : The storyline of the movie and Gulliver's Travels are the same, the people in the film are just as small as described in the book and he also went on a boat just like in the book. ...

1. What mistakes does Crusoe make? (copy the words/sentence parts)   - I went to work upon this boat the most like a fool that ever man did who had any of his senses awake.      -But I put a stop to my inquiries into it by this foolish answer which I gave myself.      -I felled a cedar-tree, and I question much whether Solomon ever had such a one for the building of the Temple of Jerusalem.      -I was twenty days hacking and hewing at it at the bottom; I was fourteen more getting the branches and limbs and many more like these. 2. How does Crusoe respond to setback(s)? he always goes to the limit because he really wants to achieve his goal. And he knows himself that he can do it, so he will not let himself be stopped by anything or anyone. 3. What lesson(s) does Crusoe learn? next time he has to do more research into what he wants to do and not start and then find out that it does not actuall...

1. Add the 3 copies of the sonnets in your file. Sonnet 144  Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride. And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend Suspect I may, but not directly tell; But being both from me, both to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell:      Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,     Till my bad angel fire my good one out.  2. In what moods are these sonnets written? How do you know? Love: red Hate: blue Doubt: green 3. What is your personal opinion about your chosen sonnets? I do not agree with this sonnet because I think man and woman are equal to each other. 17 words 4.Woul...