Sumários

Editorial - Text 7: 'So Sally Rooney’s racist? Only if you choose to confuse fiction with fact' by (the now disgraced) Nick Cohen.

2 Outubro 2023, 08:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP2 identified the persuasive writing techniques in Text 7: So Sally Rooney’s racist? Only if you choose to confuse fiction with fact by (the now disgraced) Nick Cohen.


Homework: there is no homework, but for our online class on Friday, we will be reading Text 9 - Owen Jones's The shocking rise in anti-LGBTQ hate crime shows bigotry is still ruining lives.  This class will be recorded and uploaded onto the shared Google drive.

Descriptive Writing (I)

29 Setembro 2023, 14:00 • Ana Rita Martins

Descriptive Writing: Introduction

  • How to write descriptively;
  • What to write;
  • Why (focus);
  • In-class exercises.

Video activity

29 Setembro 2023, 11:00 • Cláudia Rute Canelas Pereira Duarte

Video activity

Submission of Assignment 0

Debate

29 Setembro 2023, 09:30 • Daniel Gregg Lopes da Silva

2nd debate

METAPHOR IN POETRY

29 Setembro 2023, 08:00 • Gaile Parkin

Review and clarification of the difference between analysing a metaphor and extending a metaphor.

Metaphors in selected poems.

4th hour/tutorial work: writing extended metaphor pieces.

Homework: watch The Truman Show and analyse it in terms of metaphor.