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The Tempest: A listing of all words with a frequency of 4 and above, in order of ascending frequency. The list is split roughly between Lexical words and Grammatical Words. Interesting discoveries are highlighted. These would need to be checked in context.
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 The Tempest
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Macbeth Word samples obtained using Cruncher.
Selection drawn from the text collapsed into reverse alphabetical order (rhyme-sort).
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Macbeth |
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Present participles in Richard III, in the order in which they occur.
This list, derived from the text of Richard III, shows the -ing participles (and some other words caught up in the search because they end in -ing), in their correct sequence. It was obtained using a combination of Cruncher and the Lexical Sieve technique developed by Chris Warren. Extracting these words took about 7 minutes.
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Richard III |
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Regular past tense verbs in Richard III, in the order in which they occur.
This list, derived from the text of Richard III, shows the -ed verbs (and some other words caught up in the search because they end in -ed), in their correct sequence. It was obtained using a combination of Cruncher and the Lexical Sieve technique developed by Chris Warren, WordChef. Extracting these verbs took about 7 minutes.
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Richard III |
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Creativity |
These collapsed texts are designed to be used in class as a stimulus for creative writing and as a soft introduction to the text itself, before students have read the original.
They use the words to write poems of their own.
When the original poem is introduced there is a recognition and the possibility of special insights into the imagery.
A really big store of readymade collapsed texts can be found on the NATE CD-ROM Unlocking Literature, but now you have Cruncher you can collapse your own easily!
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 Owen - 'Futility' collapsed
Owen - 'Futility' original
Whitman - 'Patrolling Barnegat' collapsed
Whitman - 'Patrolling Barnegat' original
I have a Dream - collapsed
I have a Dream - original
Yeats - 'Lake Isle of Innisfree' collapsed
Yeats - 'Lake Isle of Innisfree' original
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Romeo and Juliet - the full listing in rhyme-sort.
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Romeo and Juliet |
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King Lear - the full listing in rhyme-sort.
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King Lear |
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Analysis |
Texts taken from a range of sources - the activity is to identify the origin through analysis of the lexis, and explain the thinking brought to bear on the task.
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15 random texts 1
15 random texts 2
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Cruncher
Working in association with NATE