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  Didacticism Definition Didacticism is a term that refers to a particular philosophy in art and literature that emphasizes the idea that different forms of art and literature ought to convey information and instructions, along with pleasure and entertainment. Didacticism in literature aims at offering something additional to its readers, rather than merely offering pleasure and entertainment. Some critics may argue that didacticism may reduce literature to a tool for boring instructions, nevertheless it definitely gives readers a chance to improve their conduct, and comprehend evils which may lead him astray. The word didactic is frequently used for those literary texts that are overloaded with informative or realistic matter, and are marked by the omission of graceful and pleasing details. Didactic, therefore, becomes a derogatory term referring to the forms of literature that are ostentatiously dull and erudite. However, some literary texts are entertaining as well as didactic. ...

ARTHUR YAP (1943–2006) (1) 2 mothers in  a  h d b playground (1980)   ah   beng  is so smart, already  he can watch  tv  & know the whole story. your   kim   cheong  is also quite smart, what  boy is he in the exam? this  playground is not too bad, but  i’m  always       5 so  worried, car here, car there.             at  exam time, it’s worse.   because  you know why?             kim   cheong  eats so little.   give  him some  complan .  my  ah  beng  was like that, 10 now  he’s different.  if  you give him anything he’s  sure to finish it all up.             sure , sure.  cheong’s  father buys him      ...

 https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.124/additional/Q_A-sample.pdf  The Maxims are based on his  cooperative principle , which states, ‘Make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged,’  5 Explain how deliberate violations, or “floutings” as Grice calls them, of the cooperative principle as in (a) and (b) can still bear meaning. Also explain when such deliberate violations do lead, for example, to lying, by discussing some conditions that must be met for flouting to render the appropriate or intended effect. (This question is inspired by an example in Cook 1989.)  a. I love it when you sing out of key all the time.  b. My cell phone’s battery runs dead every five minutes. Deliberate violations of the cooperative principle can only bear meaning when the sender intends the reader to perceive them as such.  If the receiver does not pe...

  Ivan Ang – Lit Boys M aybe not all males are made the same. Not all brains come with the M asculine wirings of formulas or M etal linings coupled with engineered precision. ALLITERATION, Not even with the capacity For profit making or any notion Lacquered with the jargon of computational algorithms. – Ma ybe some of us are Lit Boys.  Ma de and moulded differently. CONSONANCE, ASSONANCE More flesh than metal. More understanding than calculative, More theoretically profound than physically sound. The sum of these parts, though different, Does not make us less male. – We are Lit Boys. We can find humour in any cellular and atomic object. We can see tragedy in every moving being. We can taste irony in every line. We can smell sarcasm in any tone. We can pick out any feeble argument. We can identify any fallacious claim. We can write the most annoying prose To the sweetest letter you will ever read. – We are Lit Boys. We breathe in syntax And lick metaphors off our lips. Banality...

“MALCHIN TESTAMENT” By Salleh Ben Joned The purpose of writing a poem is to convey meanings through it and to show how a culture being celebrates in certain ways. As in the poem “Malchin Testament” by Salleh Ben Joned, this poem generally shows how Manglish being used in certain Malaysian society. After reading through this poem, the poem “Malchin Testament” by Salleh Ben Joned has successfully celebrates Malaysian cultures by showing how English language being used among Malaysian people especially Malay and Chinese people that I will show later in this essay. The main point that I would like to discuss is the personae in this poem. The personae show the voice of Malaysian people, how certain people used English language by their own unique ways . This can be seen through this poem because the used of words like ‘our’ and ‘we’ shows many people, not one. For examples: “we say ‘cool’ eeben wen it’s hot lah” (stanza two) “we true malaysians, you no,” (stanza three) The most important ...

Song for the Last Act Now that I have your face by heart, I look                This is not a matter of simply memorizing someone’s features, but truly knowing them, understanding their expressions,  moods , and tendencies.   Less at its features than its darkening frame The world that “frame[s]” her listener is darkening. This ties into the title of the poem, adding a feeling of temporality to the setting . These lines are spoken as if they are some kind of conclusion. They could be a final statement ending or closing out a particular period of time.  Where quince and melon , y ellow as y oung flame ,        visual imagery ,  simile                   olfactory too Lie with quilled dahlias and the shepherd’s crook . Beyond, a garden. There, in insolent ease The lead and marble figures watch the show      tactile Of yet another summer loa...

  Killing Floor BY  AI , I 爱 1.  RUSSIA, 1927 visual colour . On the day the sienna -skinned man held my shoulders between his spade-shaped hands,        alliteration :s easing me down into the azure water of Jordan,                 man, hands: assonance I woke ninety-three million miles from myself, Lev Davidovich Bronstein, shoulder-deep in the Volga, while the cheap dye of my black silk shirt darkened the water. auditory noise My head wet, water caught in my lashes.    Am I blind? I rub my eyes, then wade back to shore,    undress and lie down, until Stalin comes from his place beneath the birch tree. He folds my clothes and I button myself in my marmot coat, and together we start the long walk back to Moscow. He doesn’t ask,  what did you see in the river? , but I hear the hosts of a man drowning in water and holiness,    the castrati voices I can’t ...