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Musical studies stage comeback // It's curtains for old attitudes, educators say
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The folks who teach musical theater at Chicago area campuses have
something to sing about these days.
More students are taking up singing, dancing and acting in
preparation for theater careers that will be full of musicals. A
couple of schools even offer musical theater as a major.
"The attitude has changed about musical theater," said Mark
Elliott, director of the program at DePaul University.
"It was sort of seen as the bastard cousin, and the old guard
thought teaching musical theater was at odds with the main objective
of teaching people to act. That has changed as the character and ...
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Words: Meiosis mi-o'sis, n 1. a type of cell division; 2. = litotes
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...for ironic understatement. Or do I mean litotes? Better look it up. What's this...t be right. Ah, here we are: "2 = LITOTES." So says my Oxford Concise. Let...of English... "2. Another term for litotes." I reached for Chambers to look up...
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CONTIGUITY ERROR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...of the ancient rhetorical device called litotes (LIE-tuh-teez), a form of understatement...for something very, very nice, is litotes, for example. Not for nothing , it...be more opaque than some of its fellow litotes. For one thing, it generally appears...
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The angle of making parallels
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...am minded to put in a cool word about litotes. (The noun is plural; it is pronounced...this is certainly not unblemished." Litotes are boiled vegetables. There is something...about them. The writer who regularly uses litotes is likely to call a spade an implement...
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Yeah, yeah
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...literary device of negating a negative: litotes. For example, "he's not unintelligent...he's very intelligent." That's litotes. It works the same in Hebrew, even though...exactly illegal," is a nice lawyer's litotes. Perhaps oddest of all is when negation...
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Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking: 1709-1791.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...involves. Rhetorical devices are also significant, not least litotes and the moral implications of its stylistic deployment. In...there, along with the judgements he felt obliged to make, litotes 'comes in Johnson to stand for the double vision of his entire...
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Danglers: Misplaced Clauses That Trip Up Sentences
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...negatives would have sufficed. Double negatives have something in common with the useful device known as litotes. Editorial writers use litotes to damn with faint praise or to praise with faint damns: She is not a bad singer. She was not wearing...
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Figures of image: Aristotle and the design of icons and hypermedia. (Visual Literacy)
Magazine article from: Technical Communication
; ...or concept is too complex or indistinct to represent clearly. Instead, substitute a small, recognizable part. Litotes Litotes (lie-tuh-teez) uses a double negative to suggest a concept by the negation of its opposite. When someone asks...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - THE VIRGINAIN PILOT.(LOCAL)(Letter to the Editor)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...negatives.'' Actually, each of the examples he cited is a ``litotes,'' a figure of speech or literary device in which an assertion...consequence'' means ``it was a big deal.'' The word ``litotes'' appears in the dictionary - coincidentally, and appropriately...
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Teacher's lessons made the grade
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...listed new words. Among my first entries were "hyperbole" and "litotes," the latter of which is important only because never before now have I found a way to use the word "litotes" in print. Father O'Donnell made us write something every...
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Not to Be Misunderstood
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...negatives." Actually, each of the examples he cited is a "litotes," a figure of speech or literary device in which an assertion...small consequence" means "it was a big deal." The word "litotes" appears in the dictionary -- coincidentally and appropriately...
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