EN 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Parataxis, Golden Retriever
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The renaissance: the renaissance was a time of great social and cultural change in europe (14th- In 1642, theatre was banned beacause they didn"t want common people to understand the great works: humanism: the shift from religious works to humanity (ex- shakespeare) Seriation and parallelism (as shown on basic term sheet: there are 2 kinds of repetition, repetition, tautology saying the same thing in different ways (ex: the glass is half full vs the glass is half empty) Syntax: sentences or paragraphs that could be left/right branching (you can twist the sentence around to make it make sense) Yesterday morning, at 6:30 and before the sun was up, and even before i got out of bed or had breakfast, my big golden retriever murphy started barking and howling. Create a tree: the trunk of the tree = the main verb of the sentence (barking), and then count the words before and after.