Homework

1. The author of the classic American novel Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens and lived in Hartford for several years.

2. Mark Twain's house was very elaborate and elegant located on Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm neighboring Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

3. Mark Twain's home has windows and a balcony overlooking a large side porch that people say it reminds them of a steamboat which Twain used to pilot on the Mississippi in his youth.
 

4. Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone--- first used commercially in nearby New Haven--- but he never really liked the newfangled gadget because there was practically no one to talk to.

5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions such as the elaborate Paige typesetter but he lost a fortune investing in it because it was developed at the same time as the Linotype which was much simpler and less expensive.

6. Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died of spinal meningitis in the Hartford home and he never felt the same about the house again; he soon left it and came back only once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.

Denotation and Connotation

Nostalgia for Kerala (and its food) : Pete Cherches


1. In 1991 I visited Cochin, and about five years later I traveled more extensively within Kerala.


2. Jewtown is a fascinating place.


3. It's a mannered, gestural, ritualistic dance theatre, similar in some ways to other Asian dance idioms, such as Indonesian and Japanese forms.


4. The technique is precise and physically exacting and requires years of study.


5. The dancers have perfect control of all face and body muscles, and the make-up is striking and elaborate.

Turn Out The Light : Anderson Digby

1. There is a word that usefully captures this trend to the insipid and denatured, and it is "Lite."

2. Lite is insipid, weak, denatured, flat, diluted, and easy: food for cowards and children. 

3. So booming Lite business gives us a picture of the American and British consumer of food. He is ignorant, timid, squeamish, and childish. 

4. Good eating is about physical sensations: of crunching the tiny bones of pigs' feet, sucking away at the crab claw, pulling that greeny purple asparagus spear through your teeth, punching the claret round the gums, chewing at that older and better piece of beef, sniffing the sinus-clearing horse-radish, the sharp intake of breath as the marc hits the back of the throat, the drying of the mouth as a sour Asian fish sauce touches the gums, and the sheer delight of using a Spanish wooden toothpick to excavate the gaps in the teeth and enjoy the flecks of almonds or filaments of stewed wild duck a second time around.

5. If a novice approaches them, it is he who has to submit and learn to appreciate them.

Denotation and Connotation

Nostalgia for Kerala (and its food) : Pete Cherches


1. In 1991 I visited Cochin, and about five years later I traveled more extensively within Kerala.


2. Jewtown is a fascinating place.


3. It's a mannered, gestural, ritualistic dance theatre, similar in some ways to other Asian dance idioms, such as Indonesian and Japanese forms.


4. The technique is precise and physically exacting and requires years of study.


5. The dancers have perfect control of all face and body muscles, and the make-up is striking and elaborate.
 

Turn Out The Light : Anderson Digby

1. There is a word that usefully captures this trend to the insipid and denatured, and it is "Lite."

2. Lite is insipid, weak, denatured, flat, diluted, and easy: food for cowards and children. 

3. So booming Lite business gives us a picture of the American and British consumer of food. He is ignorant, timid, squeamish, and childish. 

4. Good eating is about physical sensations: of crunching the tiny bones of pigs' feet, sucking away at the crab claw, pulling that greeny purple asparagus spear through your teeth, punching the claret round the gums, chewing at that older and better piece of beef, sniffing the sinus-clearing horse-radish, the sharp intake of breath as the marc hits the back of the throat, the drying of the mouth as a sour Asian fish sauce touches the gums, and the sheer delight of using a Spanish wooden toothpick to excavate the gaps in the teeth and enjoy the flecks of almonds or filaments of stewed wild duck a second time around.

5. If a novice approaches them, it is he who has to submit and learn to appreciate them.