0521-Week13
- Nature versus nurture
The phrase nature and nurture relates to the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities ("nature" in the sense of nativism or innatism) as compared to an individual's personal experiences ("nurture" in the sense of empiricism or behaviorism) in causing individual differences, especially in behavioral traits. - persona
the voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author; also called implied author. - W.H. Auden's: "O Tell Me The Truth About Love"→analysis
- W.B. Yeats': “Leda and the Swan”→analysis
- Metamorphoses
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus.
Syllables
- mock
Meaning1: (adj.) not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive.
Meaning2: (n.) an object of derision.
Meaning3: (v.) tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner. - biblio-→book
1. bibliophile (n.)
Meaning: a person who collects or has a great love of books.
2. bibliography (n.)
Meaning: a list of the books referred to in a scholarly work, usually printed as an appendix.
- strait (n.)
Meaning: a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water.
channel (n.)
Meaning: a length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas. - mort-→death
1. mortality (n.)
Meaning1: the state of being subject to death.
Meaning2: death, especially on a large scale.
2. immortal
Meaning1: (adj.) living forever; never dying or decaying.
Meaning2: (n.) an immortal being, especially a god of ancient Greece or Rome. - recite (v.)
Meaning: repeat aloud or declaim (a poem or passage) from memory before an audience. - alter-→another
alternative
Meaning1: (adj.) (of one or more things) available as another possibility.
Meaning2: (n.) one of two or more available possibilities. - qua-→four
quatrain (n.)
Meaning: a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes. - brass (n.)
Meaning: a yellow alloy of copper and zinc. - elegy (n.)
Meaning1: a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
Meaning2: (in Greek and Roman poetry) a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius.