For the first exercise of the unit, your task is to make the Harold Pinter Nobel prize-giving speech informal. Re-write the speech using the casual register of Sarah Palin and see if you can manage to convey the same ideas in a different way. You may well find that some of the more complex ideas become lost, but sometimes the challenge with speech writing is precisely this: conveying complex ideas in a style that your whole audience will be able to understand and relate to.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man

Which sentence uses the simple present tense of sleep? mr. ford sleeping on a feather mattress in his apartment. mr. ford will sleep on a feather mattress in his apartment. mr. ford sleeps on a feather mattress in his apartment. mr. ford slept on a feather mattress in his apartment.

Using the sample letter that james tully wrote to tina davies, compose a résumé and then write a cover letter for a job—real or imaginary—that you would like to have. remember to state a few significant facts about yourself and