ENGLISH

MS. HERRERA
ANDREI LINGAT
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

 1.) According to the essay, what is the purpose of some persons in speaking?
 2.) What subjects does Bacon say should not be made fun of?
 3.) What is the principal purpose of discourse according to this essay?
 4.) What is the attitude of Bacon toward turn-taking?
 5.) What is the final idea that Bacon expressed to his readers?
ESSAY.

Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) was an English philosopher,

essayist, lawyer, intellectual, reformer, speaker, and jurist. He is
best known for his philosophical works and for the promotion of
the scientific method, which is the foundation of the modern
scientific inquiry. Although he has only produced one masterful
writing, the Essayes, it was enough to include him among the
top writers of nonfiction prose in English literature.
LITERARY FOCUS.

Prose and poetry are ways of communicating ideas or messages, and both of them can be
written beautifully and creatively. While the divisions between the two are not clear-cut, the
following will help you distinguish one from another. Poetry comes from the Latin word
"poeta" which means "a poet", and which can be further derived from the Greek word poets
which means "maker". Poetry uses a form of language that evokes meaning and expresses
various thoughts in a usually rhythmical and/ or metrical (verses) way to create an aesthetic
effect. It's ideas are contained in lines that may or may not be grammatical sentences, can be
very long or as short as one letter or one word, and are arrange in stanzas. The shape of
poems can also vary depending on line length and the intention of the poet.
POETRY AND PROSE

Poetry Prose
 When forty winters shall besiege  When you grow old, the beauty
thy brow, And dig deep trenches in you have, now that you are young
the beauty's field, Thy youth's will be useless and meaningless.
proud livery so gazed on now, Will
be a totter'd weed of small worth
held:
-"Sonnet II", William Shakespeare
Prose comes from the latin word prosus which means "straightforward" or "direct". Thus, it
uses a straightforward form of language. It exhibits the natural flow of grammar and
everyday speech as compared to the structure of a poem. It does not use verses; instead, its
ideas are contained in sentences which are arranged into paragraphs. Prose strictly follows
language conventions such as capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.