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aCTIvITy 1.13
continued
definition Strategies
aCademIC voCabULary
Describing the function of
something is telling how
something is used. The verb to
function means “to act as or to
operate as.”
Just as a negative answer would
be a no, to negate is to deny
or make ineffective. The noun
negation means “showing what
something is not in order to
prove what it is.”
my Notes
3. Read the following passages of definition and decide whether they contain definition by function, example, and/or negation. Be able to explain why you categorized ideas as you did. First, highlight the topic being defined. Then, decide the type of definition being used.
• “But just for the purposes of this discussion, let us say: one’s family are those toward whom one feels loyalty and obligation, and/or from whom one derives identity, and/or to whom one gives identity, and/or with whom one shares habits, tastes, stories, customs, memories.” (Marilynn Robinson, “Family.” The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought. Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
• “It’s always seemed odd to me that nonfiction is defined, not by what it is, but by what it is not. It is not fiction. But then again, it is also not poetry, or technical writing or libretto. It’s like defining classical music as nonjazz.” (Philip Gerard, Creative Nonfiction. Story Press, 1996)
• “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” (The Bible, I Corinthians 13:4–8a)
• “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
that looks on tempests and is never shaken;
it is the star to every wandering bark,
whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle’s compass come:
love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
(“Sonnet 116,” by William Shakespeare)
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