Linguistic Approaches to Literature - Assignment 1 James Madison University

Instructions: Do each of the questions below. [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

1. Look over the online syllabus (falcon.jmu.edu/~cotesa/eng412s09.html) and find the quote at the bottom of the syllabus. Copy it down for this assignment. Add any questions you may have about the syllabus. :)
2. From literature you like, advertising you bump into, dinner conversation, or whatever other natural source, find examples for any two of the options below. For each of your two examples, explain very briefly why you think it is an example of that type.
   1. A sentence that has something interesting/noticable about it syntactically.
   2. A sentence with an interesting/noticable semantic feature.
   3. A sentence with something interesting/noticable in terms of sound.
   4. A sentence where something is implied or understood but not directly said.
   5. A sentence that contains something of interest in word structure or word structure patterns.