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Chaucer's Use of "Quyting": an Analysis of the Comic Tales and Marriage TalesChaucer uses the comic interaction and bawdy ridicules of the characters to progress the tales by means of "quyting" so as to work around a specific topic with the depth of multiple perspectives.
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Pre-Approved to Pay for Life: Credit Card Debt and the College StudentAccording to a study done by the loan provider Nellie Mae in 2000, 78 percent of undergraduate students had an average of three credit cards and an average debt totaling $2,748, not including student loans.
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Anne Bradstreet's "Prologue": Her Rhetorical Strategy and Its EffectIn the "Prologue" that introduces The Tenth Muse, Bradstreet anticipates the skepticism of her audience and skillfully forestalls it by using satire to both prove her poetic skill and to consol a threatened male audience.
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The Development of Textual Linguistics and Its Supporting TheoriesE. M. Forster once wrote, "How do I know what I think til I see what I say?" It is essentially this question that has puzzled linguists for decades.
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"Like": The Idiotic Idiomatic ExpressionIt is fascinating that one of the most common words I hear is also the most useless. The word "like," in its idiomatic form, has victimized the English language for years, and the battle to end the excessive verbiage is being abandoned.