文學導讀˙ week 15

The Philosophy of Composition
 is an 1846 essay written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe that elucidates a theory about how good writers write when they write well. 

Semiotics 
 is the study of meaning-making. 
Semiotics is often divided into three branches:

1. Semantics: relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata, or meaning

2. Syntactics: relations among signs in formal structures

3. Pragmatics: relation between signs and sign-using agents

Elegy 輓歌

In literature, an elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.

ab·surd

  [ab-surd, -zurd] 

adjective

utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense;laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.

te·di·ous

  [tee-dee-uhs, tee-juhs] 

adjective

marked by tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.

wordy so as to cause weariness or boredom, as a speaker or writer; prolix.

Hyperbole  (誇飾)

is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally.

Hyper - 多

para- phrase