Unit 8: Appetite

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Unit 8 Appetite

• Stylistic features
• Exposition through definition
• Comparison contrast
• Metaphorical language

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About the author Laurie Lee  (1914-1997)

• British novelist and poet
• Laurie Lee was born in the village of Slad, near
  Stroud, Gloucestershire. Before he became famous
  with Cider with Rosie(1959), the first volume of
  his autobiography, Lee had been known mainly for
  his poetry and had worked as a scriptwriter for
  documentaries.

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About the author

• Abandoned by his father when he was three, Lee
  was educated at the local village school and at
  Stroud, leaving when he was fifteen. In 1934, he
  went to London to seek his fortune and then
  continued on to Spain. There he traveled on foot,
  playing his fiddle to earn his keep, before being
  caught up later in the Spanish Civil War. These
  youthful adventures provided the material for his
  celebrated autobiographical trilogy. Returning to
  London, he worked for the Ministry of Information
  during World War Two.

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About the author

• Lee's poems are generally about the English
  countryside and proved only reasonably
  successful. Cider with Rosie, on the other hand,
  was an immediate best-seller, reaching a wide
  public with its images of village life from a
  bygone era of innocence and simplicity. Its
  success was such that Lee could buy his childhood
  home, where he died. He was buried in the local
  churchyard. His other noted works are As I Walked
  Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and I Can't Stay
  Long (1975).

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The author
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About the author

• Comments on Laurie Lee
• he was a legend in his own lifetime. An
  immensely gentle and kind man, with a great sense
  of humour and a tremendous appreciation of
  beauty, his works are read, enjoyed and admired
  the world over.
•     But the horse was king, and almost
  everything grew around him ...This was what we
  were born to, and all we knew at first. Then, to
  the scream of the horse, the change began. The
  brass-lamped motor-car came coughing up the
  road.
• -- Cider With Rosie, "Last Days"

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• Oscar Wilde
• (1854-1900)

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• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish-born writer and
  wit, who was the chief proponent of the aesthetic
  movement, based on the principle of art for arts
  sake. Wilde was a novelist, playwright, poet, and
  critic.
• quick facts
• Birth October 16, 1854
• Death November 30, 1900
• Place of Birth Dublin, Ireland
• Known for witty, often paradoxical, sayings that
  lampoon the social mores and behavior of the
  English upper classes of his time

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Oscar Wilde (Bio-notes)

• 1878 Graduated from the University of
  Oxford with a degree in Classics
• 1881 Published Poems, a collection of
  poetry
• January - October 1882 Lectured on English
  aestheticism in the United States and Canada
• 1891 Published his only novel, The Picture
  of Dorian Gray, which portrayed the moral decay
  of its title character
• February 1895 The Importance of Being
  Earnest, the last and most popular of his
  comedies, was produced in London.
• May 1895 Convicted of homosexual acts
  following three sensationalized trials, and
  received a sentence of two years' hard labor
• 1897 Released from prison, financially
  bankrupt and spiritually downcast. He spent the
  rest of his life in Paris, publishing only the
  poem The Ballad of Reading Goal (1898).
• November 30, 1900 Died a pauper of
  meningitis (???) in Paris, converted to Roman
  Catholicism before his death.

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• Quotations from Oscar Wilde
• Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them
  so much.
• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that
  we have to alter it every six months.
• I was working on the proof of one of my poems all
  the morning, and took out a comma. In the
  afternoon I put it back again.
• Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are
  someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,
  their passions a quotation.
• Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a
  friend, but it requires a very fine nature to
  sympathize with a friend's success.
• Art never expresses anything but itself.

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On appetite

• Subdue your appetites my dears, and you've
  conquered human nature.
• -Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
• ORSINO If music be the food of love, play on,
• Give me excess of it, that,
  surfeiting,
• The appetite may sicken and
  so die.
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• -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
• Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1

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Definition

• A common formula of definition
• thing to be defined verb class word
  characteristics

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Formal definition

• A school is an institution where children are
  educated.
• Steel is an alloy that is produced from iron and
  carbon.
• An encyclopedia is a book that gives information
  on subjects in alphabetical order.
• An engineer is a person who designs machines,
  building or public works.

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Extended definitions

• (for abstract, controversial, ambiguous
  concepts/notions )
• Sociology is a branch of science which studies
  the development and principles of social
  organization. It is concerned with group behavior
  as distinct from the behavior of individuals in
  the group.

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Ways to extend definition

• Give descriptive details
• Exemplify and narrate, i.e. give examples of
  instances in which the definition would be
  appropriate.
• Compare or contrast e.g.
• -- What is an egoist? An egoist is like a miser,
  keeping love and admiration, instead of money,
  all for himself.. Both the egoist and the miser
  are lonely, insecure and neurotic.

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No as negation

• - Are you sure you dont want anything?
• - Yes. Im sure.
• - Dont you want anything?
• - No. thanks.
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No in negation

• Compare
• -- Are you sure you dont want anything?
• - Yes, Im sure.