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ZHONGQI WU commented on the post, Blog post #6, on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 02:18:59 -0500

The impact of slavery definitely is huge to people, especially black people. They lived in distress and suffered from the constraint of slavery in that special time. Their revolt implies their resistance to slavery.

ZHONGQI WU wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 03:56:41 -0500

In the a raisin in the sun, before the appearance of the characters, the author sets the tone for the development of the story by describing the social environment in which the story takes place and the […]

ZHONGQI WU wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 02:10:25 -0500

In the Benito Cereno, author depicts three main characters involving the captive White Benito, the rescuer white captain Delano and black smart slave Babo. By depicting Babo, a clever black slave, as the leader, […]

ZHONGQI WU commented on the post, Blog post #5, on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 05:34:47 -0400

The events are always around us and plot make events impressive. And interaction between events and plot could engage readers to cognition behind the works.

ZHONGQI WU wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 05:20:58 -0400

In literary works, authors utilize different narrative point of view to represent a story. As I know, most of them involves first person narrator and third person narrator. Consequently, the effect of the two ways […]

ZHONGQI WU wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 23:16:28 -0400

In chapter 5, author talks about poetry and rhetorics. Poetry tends to create effect of persuasion and rhetoric tends to have effect of imitation. The fusion of both of them is important in literary work. […]

ZHONGQI WU wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:09:46 -0400

Language use in our daily life normally exists in a simple way of both spoken and written aspects. However, it doesn’t quite apply to literary work. As culler mentioned, “Meaning is context-bound, but context is […]

ZHONGQI WU commented on the post, Blog post #2, on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:54:32 -0400

Yes, something elegant along with texts makes work full of sense of freshness towards readers. It will attract humans to develop new skill and knowledge about language.

ZHONGQI WU wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:16:19 -0400

Jonathan Culler defines the nature of literature that consists of five facets including literature as the the foregrounding of language, as aesthetic object, as intertextual or self-reflexive construct, as […]

ZHONGQI WU commented on the post, Blog post ##1, on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 03:38:04 -0400

Indeed, I agree with your point. Literary work is a special version to gain knowledge and express something, however, non-literary is still needed as well in our life. We definitely need both!

ZHONGQI WU wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 03:23:24 -0400

According to “What is literature and does it matter” from chapter 2 which written by Jonathan Culler, I have already had a bit of comprehension about literature. I think it is a vital way for us to grab more thi […]

ZHONGQI WU wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 04:19:51 -0400

Hello, everyone. My name is zhongqi wu. You might guess at that I am from some eastern country when you see my name. Indeed, I come from a coastal city, Qingdao, in China. I have lived in America for about 7 […]

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Sun, 13 Sep 2020 18:59:57 -0400