ENGL 104W Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Essay, Literal And Figurative Language, Formal Language
16 Sep 2016
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Familiar essay can include ideas w/much wider application than the author"s anecdotal or private concerns. Both familiar and formal essayists = use language in many creative ways and these can also forward wider issues & themes. Markers of discontinuity: requires additional attentional essays can have a story-like quality which calls into play many of the terms of literary criticism. Finding them and analyzing them = good way of arriving at a theme & of recognizing their value in your own writing: can also be deliberately broken through juxtaposition & surprising endings. One of the familiar essay"s key expressive devices, its most engaging warts and crochets and turns of voice figurative language. Useful structure to show how figurative language works = to see it in terms of foreground & background: figurative language = foregrounded or highlighted usage. Is prepared for in the prose by a dominant background o literal use.
