The English words “The pen is mightier than the sword” were first written by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, in his historical play Cardinal Richelieu. Richelieu, chief minister to King Louis XIII, discovers a plot to kill him, but as a priest he is unable to take upRead More →
1. relatedness – a particular manner of connectedness; “the relatedness of all living things” connection, connexion, connectedness – a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it); “there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare”Read More →
The word comes from the Greek diakonos (διάκονος), for “deacon”, which means a servant or helper and occurs frequently in the Christian New Testament of the Bible. Deaconesses trace their roots from the time of Jesus Christ through to the 13th century in the West. What is a deaconess inRead More →
We find Phoebe’s story recounted in just two Bible verses: Romans 16:1-2 (NIV): “I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae. What is the biblical role of a deacon? But based on the NT data, the role of the deacon is mainly a servantRead More →
In linguistics, definiteness is a semantic feature of noun phrases (NPs), distinguishing between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context (definite noun phrases) and entities which are not (indefinite noun phrases). … In still other languages, such as Danish, definiteness is marked morphologically. What is definiteness inRead More →
Impersonal sentence example. She explored one hallway and found two guest bedrooms and an office, all decorated in the same cold, impersonal colors. What is impersonal grammar? The term “impersonal” simply means that the verb does not change according to grammatical person. In terms of valency, impersonal verbs are oftenRead More →
(also known as: ambiguous assertion, amphiboly, amphibology, semantical ambiguity, vagueness) Description: When an unclear phrase with multiple definitions is used within the argument; therefore, does not support the conclusion. How is ambiguity created? Semantic and syntactic ambiguity Syntactic ambiguity arises when a sentence can have two (or more) different meaningsRead More →
Definition of Metalanguage. Metalanguage is language that describes language. So, instead of maybe using the word, “He was sad”, we might say something like, “He felt sorrowful”. The choice in words changes the meaning that is interpreted by the reader, just slightly, but there is still a difference. What isRead More →
Important New Critics included Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, William Empson, and F.R. What introduced New Criticism in English? The New Critics, however, introduced refinements into the method. Early seminal works in the tradition were those of the English critics I.A. Richards (Practical Criticism, 1929)Read More →
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