Articles and extracts

Articles and extracts

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (1938)
“A black figure stood waiting for me at the head of the stairs, the hollow eyes watching me intently from the white skull’s face….I was alone now with Mrs Danvers. I went up the great stairs towards her, and she waited motionless, her hands folded before her, her eyes never leaving my face. I summoned a smile, which was not returned, nor did I blame her, for there was no purpose to the smile, it was silly thing, bright and artificial…She spoke in a peculiar way, as though something lay behind her words, and she laid emphasis on the words “this wing”, as if suggesting that the suite where we stood now held some inferiority. She just went on starting at me, her hands folded before her… She shrugged her shoulders, and still she did not smile. I wished she would go; she was like a shadow standing there, watching me, appraising me with her hollow eyes, set in that dead skull’s face (p107)”.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843) Chapter 1
“Oh, but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which on steel had ever struck out generous fire: secret, and self- contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.
Eternal heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often came down handsomely, and Scrooge never did”.

Read the extract from the two literary texts, one by Charles Dickens (1843) and one by Daphne Du Maurier (1938).
1) Analyse the difference between these two extracts from different period in terms of use of one aspect of language, one of structure and one of syntax [sentence structure] 600words

2) Read the extract by Dickens from “A Christmas Carol” and write 100 words describing a person, imitating his style.
Section B
Carefully read the two articles on 24hour drinking laws from the Daily Mail, one by Melanie Phillips (2005) and one by James Slack (2010).
1.) Identify one language, structural and one presentational device used explaining how they are used to create different and perspective. [I.e. say “why the writers used them] 150words
2.) Analyse the effectiveness of the argument in one of the articles. 250words

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