THE DASH

copyright 1996 Linda Ellis

I read a man who stood to speak

at the funeral of a friends.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
from the beginning... to the end.

He noted that first came the death of her

birth and spoke of the following date with
tears, but he said what mattered most of
all was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time

that she spent alive on earth.et and now
only those who loved her know what
that little line is worth.
8. By negation - stating what a term is not.
Ex: Wild rice, an American delicacy, is not rice at all but the seed of a tall
aquatic grass.

2. Explication- is an attempt to reveal the meaning by calling

attention to implications, such as the connotations of words and the tone
conveyed by the brevity or length of a sentence. An explication is a
commentary that makes explicit what implicit.
is a method of explanation in which sentences, verses, quotes, or
phrases are taken from a literan/ or academic work then interpreted and
explained in a detailed way, YOU may begin by analyzing how the text was
constructed and end with a concise conclusion by restating your major
arguments. Explication not only illuminates a piece of literature, but also
serves to remind the readers about its historical setting and formal
properties of style and language.
essence in order to clarify the "whatness" of that idea or concept. It answers
the questions: what is it and about it (Dadufalza 1996:183). A concept paper
starts with a definition, either formal of informal, of the term or the concept
and proceeds with an expanded definition and an analytic description of the
as-pects of the concept,

Purposes:
l . To clarify meaning of words, or to correct misinterpretations, or
misuse of a term.
2. To stipulate the meaning of a term by limiting, extending, or
redirecting the sense in which a term is usually understood; to use a term,
borrowed from another field of knowledge, in a special way.
Three ways of elucidating a concept: