Historical Context
Without this means of transport, the British Empire would never have been built.
The ship
The author of "The White Man's Burden"
Rudyard Kipling
A language that is used between people who do not have the same mother tongue.
Lingua Franca
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The British Empire were a positive thing.
Kongruensfejl
This country has been called 'The Crown Jewel' of the Empire'
India
A famous saying about the British Empire
The sun never sets on the British Empire
He wanted to spread the English language in the British colonies and introduce it as the language of education.
the relationship between the coloniser and the colonised
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The British Empire falled a long time ago.
Fejl i bøjning af uregelmæssig verbum
The countries included in Great Britain
England, Scotland and Wales
After this war, most of the British colonies gained independence
WWII
The poem we read by John Agard
Listen Mr Oxford Don
A term used to describe the native people in the colonies
Savages
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The white mans burden
Genitiv
This rhetorical device involves a direct or indirect reference to somthing which is commonly known: e.g. "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Allusion
The federation of British colonies declared independence in 1776 and won it in 1783.
The United States of America
Author of Burmese Days
George Orwell
Postcolonial criticism was an academic discipline that started when?
1980s
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Colonization of countrys from the 16th to the 18th centuries resulted in the Empire including America, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Caribbean countries as British Colonies.
Fejl i substantivets pluralis
During the reign of this queen, the British Empire reached its peak
Queen Victoria
This is a rhetorical device used in the text (Identify at least one).
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease
personification, alliteration,
Three main interests in postcolonial literature
1) to re-read old classics
2) to re-write old classics
3) to write back to the old centre
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In 1947 became India independent.
Ordstillingsfejl (omvendt ordstilling).