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2. Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on ...

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   Three Hundred Rāmāyaṇas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation" is an essay written by Indian writer A. K. Ramanujan for a Conference on Comparison of Civilizations at the University of Pittsburgh, February 1987. The essay was a required reading on Delhi University's syllabus for history undergraduates from 2006–7 onward. On ...

3. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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   know the meaning of words, understand the meaning of a word from a discourse context, follow the organization of a passage and to identify antecedents and references in it, draw inferences from a passage about its contents, identify the main thought of a passage, ask questions about the text, answer questions asked in a passage, visualize the text,

4. The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages - Wikipedia

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   The book received numerous positive reviews. For example, Kirkus Reviews wrote, "The best pieces in the book, such as a wonderful essay on Navajo place names, combine this ethic with a profound attention to local knowledge and old ways of knowing; echoing Borges, Momaday proclaims that for him paradise is a library, but also 'a prairie and a plain . . .

5. Essay - Wikipedia

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   Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g., Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke 's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthus 's An Essay on the Principle of Population are ...

6. Text types - Wikipedia

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   Example: An essay on "Rhetoric: What is it and why do we study it?" There is a chance that your work may fall flat if you have not chosen one of the really good expository essay topics. Not all topics out there are interesting or meaty enough to be thoroughly investigated within a paper.

7. Idiom - Wikipedia

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   In other words, one should be in a position to understand the whole if one understands the meanings of each of the parts that make up the whole. For example, if the phrase "Fred kicked the bucket" is understood compositionally, it means that Fred has literally kicked an actual, physical bucket. The idiomatic reading, however, is non ...