ThinkLink

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Rhetoric activity

These are the rhetorical figures that I found on the text:

Ethos: "(...)young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled."

Pathos: "We are, and always will be, the United States of America" 

Logos: "It was built by working men and women (...) had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause"

Repetition: "(...) who still doubts that America (...), who still wonders if the dream (...), who still questions the power of our democracy (...)" 

Polysyndeton: "(...) to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve" 

Parallelism: "(...) the backyards of Des Moins and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston."

Antithesis and juxtaposition: "(...) the bitter cold and scorching heat (...)"

Varied sentence length: "Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term (...) that we will get there" 

Figurative speech: "(...) a collections of red states and blue states." 

Hypophora: "It's the answer told by lines that (...)"

Upraisisng video

1.- The whole video tries to reflect that idea, because it always show images of a destroyed city. The part when one of the members of the band hits the window, or when the group of "people" is burning a pile of things help to give the idea of chaos and revolution. The letter of the song also helps to develop the idea of revolution and chaos: "Rise up and take the power back/ It's time the fat cats had a heart attack".

2.-  The lyric speaker is very confident, as he calls to reveal against the "fat cats". He do not show fear at any moment.

Fill in the gaps

Young jewish, death, from the nazis, she died age 15 in, studious and intelligent, a passion for, came to power, and outgoing girl, notebook for her, about her dreams, to go to a, shared the small, the hideout and, a mass grave, still unknown, widely read.

Imre Kertesz interview

1.- You feel like in a concentration camp because of the size of the stone blocks, and because they are all so together. It makes you feel vulnerable, and that must have been the feeling that the people in the concentration camps must have felt.


2.- The paradox that is presented at the beginning is that he lives in Germany, the country that once wanted to kill him. According to Imre Kertesz this is the place where he feels free, so he can't live in any other place.


3.- Those who are antisemites after Auschwitz want a new Auschwitz. Those who were antisemites before Auschwitz, wasn't real antisemites (acording to Imre Kertesz).


4.- They can make us much richer if those reminders are told from a complete different perspective. If we ignore them, it can happen again.


5.- When he published "Fatelessness", everyone told him that it was a great novel, but today nobody is interested anymore. The same thing can happen with the holocaust. People will forget it.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" Educreation

The link

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Study session N° 1

Ellipsis and Substitution

Ellipsis is the omission of a word or words from a sentence.
When ellipsis is not posible, we replace words in order to avoid repeating that word/s.

Pronouns and possessives

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. There are two types of pronouns: subject and object pronouns. The subject pronouns are I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they. The object pronouns are me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them.
In direct and indirect questions we use the pronouns who, whose, what and which.
Pronouns for talking about people in general are you, we and they.

Possessive determiners are my, your, his, her, its, one's, our, their, and they are used before nouns. And possessive pronouns are used instead of nouns (mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs).

To make a possessive from a noun, we add 's

Linking words

Linking words show relationship between words, clauses and other pices of text. They can be conjunctions, prepositions and adverbials. 
Conjunctions join two statements, and express relationships like time, addition, condition or purpose. Some examples are: although, and, but, because, for, since, so, until, while and yet. Conjunctions can come either before or between the two parts they connect. Even though, there are some conjunctions that can only be used between those two parts (and, but, yet, for, or, nor, so).

Linking prepositions include: according to, as well as, because of, by,despite, during, in spite of, instead of, thanks to. They can also express reason, time, purpose, etc. Since, before and after can be both conjunctions and prepositions. 

Linking adverbs can be used to join sentences and paragraphs. They are usually separated from the sentence with commas. These can include: also, finally, however, in addition, instead, nevertheless, though, therefore.