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 (educ.jmu.edu/~cotesa/eng302f15.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. Write down just a one or two line excerpt from a literary work that you find noticeable in some way for its language.

3. Also, find and write down from a "on-literary" source (advertising you bump into, dinner conversation, or whatever) one example of something interesting or noticable about the language you heard/read. Don't make up examples; you're looking for "naturally occurring" data. :)