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Things to Analyse
Things to analyse in Way of the World by William Congreve
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Literature
12th Grade
01/12/2015

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Denoument Scenes:

 

All is revealed.

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Proviso Scene:

 

Characters come to an agreement

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Contrast: 

 

How a scene contrasts with previous scenes 

and how this affects the mood

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Gatekeepers:

 

People who dominate or steer the conversation

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Schema:

 

The given expectations in a particular situation

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Maxim of Quality:

 

Being as truthful as possible

 

 

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Maxim of Quantity

 

Giving as much information as is needed, and no more.

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Maxim of Relation:


Trying to say things that are relevant to the discussion

 

 

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Maxim of Manner:

 

The speaker is as clear and brief as possible, avoiding 

obscurity

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Adjacency Pairs

Combinations of utterances that go together naturally, eg

a question and an answer

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Non-fluency features:

Signs that someone's speech is not fluent because of stress

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Address terms

Eg honorifics

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Length of turn

Including interruptions

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Convergence

Speakers reflect each other's utterances

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Paralinguistic Features

Features of speech which change the tone of voice

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Use of oaths/swearing

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Women were first allowed on stage

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The monarchy was restored

 

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Chocolate and coffee houses were popular

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Theme: The Way of the World

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Theme: Money

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Theme: Love

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Theme: Materialism

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Theme: Deceit

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Ass-onance

The rhyming of vowels

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Irony

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Puns

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Double meanings

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Sound patterning: Fricatives

Lots of f's or th's

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Sound patterning: Plosives

Lots of t's, k's, p's, d's, g's, b's

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Sound patterning: Sibilance

Lots of s's

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Sound patterning: Consonance

The repetition of consonants

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Upper-class setting

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Deflation of the upper class through satire

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Sexually explicit

 

 

 

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Parody

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Catharsis

Doing something that will give you emotional release, eg listening to My Chemical Romance

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Stock Character: Fops

Witwoud and Petulant

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Stock character: Desperate older woman

Lady Wishfort

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Stock Character: Country bumpkin

Sir Wilfull

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Truth and virtue win over vice and hypocrisy

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Sentence functions: Imperatives

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Sentence functions: Declaratives

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Sentence functions: Interrogatives

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Sentence functions: Exclamatives

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Use of modal verbs

eg. can, should

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Triplets

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Euphemisms

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Understatement

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Antithesis

Opposites

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Incrementum

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Exaggeration

 

 

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