Sidetrack!

AP Language, British Literature. Sun, Nov 18th, 2007 at 5:25 pm

Cool story from NPR, “The ‘Dirt on Clean’ in an Oversanitized World,” describes a new book from Katherine Ashenberg on body odors throughout history.

5 Responses to “Sidetrack!”

  1. kathryn says:
    November 20, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    Right on.

  2. K vOn MO says:
    November 23, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    I need help–

    Definitions:
    1. Canon
    2. Claim

    Difference between colloqualism and dialect? If I said “Y’all come back now y’hear” would it be both?

    An example of didactic?

  3. K vOn MO says:
    November 23, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    Definition: Epitaph

    Can’t find a rhetorical one.

  4. JStallings says:
    November 24, 2007 at 10:24 am

    For canon, there is a great article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/
    wiki/Western_canon
    Basically, when discussing literature, some works are deemed “important” or “vital” to a thorough understanding of some genre or section of lit. For example, Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea is a canonical novella.

    A claim is an argumentation or an assertion of something as fact. We discuss this each week in our article analyses.

    There is a lot of overlap between colloquial language and dialect. Colloquial language is almost always informal or “common.” Dialect is comprised of the language and speech idiosyncrasies of an area or group.

    Epitaph is a statement written in praise of a dead person. Rhetorically, this can be used to bolster the speaker’s ethos by connecting his or her argument to a respected dead person.

  5. K vOn MO says:
    November 24, 2007 at 7:49 pm

    Thank-you!