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07- 03- 2012



  1. What is "Sunday Bloody Sunday"?

  2. What is it about?

  3. Who told you it is a song?

  4. What do you know about Ireland?

  5. How long have you been back from Ireland?

  6. Do you refer to meals?

  7. What kind of vegetables?

  8. What is the tipical Irish food?



CULTURES ARE NOT MADE OF STEREOTYPES.

CULTURE IS SOMETHING IN WHICH YOU HAVE TO INVEST.


Young people associate drinking to . . . (?)
They drink to recieve a sense of belonging.

To act: to make choices; to be the protagonist –> you have to have something to say.

To be talented: particoularly skilled in a particoular thing.



19-03-2012


BALLAD:

  • 1st form of poetry; no written; strictly connected to the sound

  • Oral form of poetry --> The ballad was handed over from generation to generation.

  • Incremental repetitions, refrains



Language:

  • Simple language

  • Concrete language

  • Anglosaxons origines

  • Popular material affect


Topics:

  • Tragic love stories

  • Supernaturales

  • Battles (Scotland & England)


Settings:

  • Castles

  • Scotland

  • Medieval Ages

Features:

  • Repetition of sme lines in sound changes.

  • Allitterations: repetition of the same consonant sound.
    Function: the poem is easier to remember.

  • Assonance

  • It can be made of Narrator or Dialogues or both together.

  • The structure of the ballad consist of dialogues and narrations; the dialogue brings the protagonist to the forefront, makes the story more lively because it adds a lively atmosphere in it; the narration creates the context, it explains better where the event is taking place.