An entertaining and effective way to learn new vocabulary • illustrated words make meaning immediate • new words are reinforced and recycled in a series of pictures • suitable for self-study or class work The interactive CD-ROM covers 13 themes of 20 words each. Each theme has 5 crosswords, with each word encountered 3 times. All words are pronounced by a native speaker.
If you need to know it, it's in this book. The 2013-2014 edition of Cracking the SAT Literature Subject Test brings you: · 4 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations for all questions · A thorough and engaging subject review of prose, poetry, narrative voice, theme, meter, form, tone, and more · Tons of sample passages and drills · An updated key terms list
A twentysomething bus rider with a long, skinny neck and a goofy hat accuses another passenger of trampling his feet; he then grabs an empty seat. Later, in a park, a friend encourages the same man to reorganize the buttons on his overcoat. In Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, this determinedly pointless scenario unfolds 99 times in twice as many pages. Originally published in 1947 (in French), these terse variations on a theme are a wry lesson in creativity. The story is told as an official letter, as a blurb for a novel, as a sonnet, and in "Opera English." It's told onomatopoetically, philosophically, telegraphically, and mathematically.
The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilém Mathesius, while Subject has traditionally been seen as just a syntactic entity. More recently two related perspectives on these concepts have attracted linguists' attention: the formal criteria for their recognition and the relations between the two concepts. Using the systemic functional model as their point of departure, the papers in the present volume consider the two notions in a wider context by relating them to the interpersonal and textual metafunctions of language.
