questions? 1.middle east? 2.bazaar? 3.gothic? 4.guild? 5.veiled women? islam? 6.justice, honor,...
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Questions?
1. Middle east?
2. Bazaar?
3. Gothic?
4. Guild?
5. Veiled women? Islam?
6. Justice, honor, persecution?
7. Caravanserai?
8. British English?
9. …
British Empire
Description or Narrative?Break the Fence!
Setting: 1950s, 1960s?
Plot/Conflict: West vs. East, Modern vs. Traditional, Civilized vs. Uncivilized, Order vs. Disorder, Feminist Freedom vs. Veiled Women, Fixed Price vs. Bargaining, Labor Law vs. Child Labor, Industrialization vs. Animal Power, Man vs. Women, Sumptuous Meal vs. Humble Meal, Upper Class vs. Lower Class, Open Square vs. Dark Cavern, Humanity vs. Inhumanity
Character: protagonist and antagonist
Structure: a climax?
Style
Atmosphere
Theme
Break the Fence!
Emotional, exaggerating expressions
Hypotactic mostly
An order of time and space
A good beginning?
A good ending?
Can we remove the seventh paragraph? The carpet market, the spice market, the food market, the dye market, the pottery market, the carpenters’ market
The Middle Eastern Bazaar
Market in the British World
?
Bazaar in the Middle East
Take…back
A Gothic-arched gateway
A cool dark cavern
Little donkeys
Bells
Donkey-boys and porters
Stall-holders
Bargaining
Veiled women
Perspectives: Middle Eastern Bazaar or British Bazaar?
How Ironic!
Rhetorical Devices
the heat and glare of a big, open square
as far as the eye can see
tinkling bells
arguing and bargaining
a fairyland of dancing flashes
the apprentices—boys and youths, some of them incredibly young
textures and regional designs—some bold and simple, others unbelievably detailed and yet harmonious
lie disdainfully chewing their hay
Rhetorical Devices
a vast, somber cavern of a room
tower
groan
a flood of glistening linseed oil
sigh
simple/compound/complex sentences
right-branched/left-branched sentences
Rewrite Exercise
Write paragraph eight into one sentence!
Here is a possibility for 8 and 9.
The most unforgettable thing in the bazaar is the oil-making place where a mechanism of three stone wheels, a huge pole, a camel, a stone channel, and an attendant is used to extract the linseed oil. After some creaking, groaning, squeaking, and rumbling from the ramshackle apparatus and some occasional grunts and sighs from the camel, a flood of glistening linseed oil flows into a used petrol can.
Transitional Questions
What is a description?What is a narration?In which parts has the descriptive strategy used in Everyday Use for Grandmamma?
Questions
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2. African American Culture in the United States3. African American Experience in the United States4. African American Women’s Experience in the
United States5. The Mind of the South6. African American Experience in the Civil War7. Cultural Revolution in the Mid-20th Century8. Irony, Irony, Irony!9. Symbolism10. Foreshadow 11. Damn it! Who’s correct?
Basics of a StorySetting?Plot/Conflict?Character: protagonist and antagonist
Structure: a climax?Style? Atmosphere?Theme?Narrator?
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