How would you describe the message and mood of this drawing and what elements of the work contribute to the message and mood?


Let's read the first MC section.

When do you thin it was written? Why?

What do you think the author's nationality is? Why?

What is the author's main point?

What characteristics of this text make it challenging for the typical reader?

What makes it challenging to read? Content? Syntax? Diction? Tone?

pedantic

or pedantical

[puh-dan-tik] 

 

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adjective

1.

ostentatious in one's learning.

2.

overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching.

af·fec·ta·tion

[ˌafekˈtāSH(ə)n]

NOUN

1. behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress:

   "the affectation of a man who measures every word for effect" · 
   

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   synonyms: pretension · pretentiousness · affectedness · artificiality · posturing · 
   

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   • a studied display of real or pretended feeling:
     "an affectation of calm"
     synonyms: facade · front · show · appearance · pretense · simulation · 
     

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per·spic·u·ous

[pərˈspikyo͞oəs]

ADJECTIVE

1. 
   

   formal

   (of an account or representation) clearly expressed and easily understood; lucid:

   "it provides simpler and more perspicuous explanations than its rivals"

   • (of a person) able to give an account or express an idea clearly.

cant¹

[kant]

NOUN

1. hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature:

   "the liberal case against all censorship is often cant"

   synonyms: hypocrisy · sanctimoniousness · sanctimony · pietism
2. denoting a phrase or catchword temporarily current or in fashion:

   "they are misrepresented as, in the cant word of our day, uncaring"

VERB

1. 
   

   dated

   talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something:

   "if they'd stop canting about “honest work,” they might get somewhere"

2. vulgar

   [vuhl-ger] 

    

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   adjective

   1.
   

   characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste:
   

   vulgar ostentation.

   2.
   

   indecent; obscene; lewd:
   

   a vulgar work; a vulgar gesture.

   3.
   

   crude; coarse; unrefined:
   

   a vulgar peasant.

   4.
   

   of, relating to, or constituting the ordinary people in a society:
   

   the vulgar masses.

   5.
   

   current; popular; common:
   

   a vulgar success; vulgar beliefs.

   6.
   

   spoken by, or being in the language spoken by, the people generally; vernacular:
   

   vulgar tongue.