Empirical research questions

Complete the gaps with the words that are missing from memory without looking at the previous text.

"A new smartphone was launched by Blackberry in 2015. For the promotion, a picture of the phone was shared on Twitter. Although the new smartphone appeared smart and sleek, problem was that the picture was taken using an iPhone. The picture was but, it had already got noticed with taken. This invited a lot of trolling for the company. The boss has had coming out of his in light of the failure of the marketing campaign."
Retrieved from https://startuptalky.com/biggest-marketing-fails/

Read the text attentively and memorize its content in three minutes:

"The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism. First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City It is widely recognized and frequently referred to in popular culture, and sometimes referred to by more descriptive titles, such as "Melting Clocks", "The Soft Watches" or "The Melting Watches". The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time. This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity. Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was in fact the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert (type of cheese) melting in the sun."
Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persistence_of_Memory
*Camembert - a kind of rich, soft, creamy cheese, originally made near Camembert in Normandy.

Complete the gaps with the words that are missing from memory without looking at the previous text.

"The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism. First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City It is widely recognized and frequently referred to in popular culture, and sometimes referred to by more descriptive titles, such as "The Watches" or "The Watches". The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the pocket watch. It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time. This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's of special relativity. Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was in fact the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert in the sun."
Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persistence_of_Memory

Read the four extracts and copy and paste the sections of the extracts that captured your attention and are foregrounded against the background of the rest of the linguistic means. Copy and paste the sections into the box below:

1. "Thousands of patients are facing delays in getting treatments for cancer and other life-threatening diseases, with drug shortages in the United States approaching record levels." Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/health/drug-shortages-cancer.html
2. "They spoke as if each word were being served with scones and china cups." Colum McCann, “Hunger Strike”
3. "A family is like a book. The ending's never clear, but through the pages of the book, their love is always near." Nicole M. O'Neil, A Family Is Like A Circle
4. "You don't need fancy equipment to make a pie. If you don't have a food processor, you can use a pastry blender to cut the butter into the flour, then add 6-8 Tbsp ice-cold water, folding it in with a spatula between each addition." Retrieved from https://natashaskitchen.com/apple-pie-recipe/

Read the four extracts and copy and paste the sections of the extracts that captured your attention and are foregrounded against the background of the rest of the linguistic means. Copy and paste the sections into the box below:

“Love After Love”
by Derek Walcott

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

(Derek Walcott “Sea Grapes”)

Read the four extracts and copy and paste the sections of the extracts that captured your attention and are foregrounded against the background of the rest of the linguistic means. Copy and paste the sections into the box below:

i have found what you are like

i have found what you are like
the rain,

          (Who feathers frightened fields
with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields

easily the pale club of the wind
and swirled justly souls of flower strike

the air in utterable coolness

deeds of green thrilling light
                                    with thinned

newfragile yellows

                    lurch and press

—in the woods
                  which
                        stutter
                                and

                                    sing

And the coolness of your smile is
stirringofbirds between my arms;but
i should rather than anything
have(almost when hugeness will shut
quietly)almost,
                your kiss

(E.E. Cummings “i have found what you are like”)

Read the chunk of the literary text, copy and paste the language elements in the chunks that attract your attention, allow you to select the most relevant and conceptually significant information, which serve as a search stimulus in the process of linguistic information processing and help you to interpret the text:

“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. (”Ernest Hemingway - “The Old Man and the Sea”).

Read the chunk of the literary text, copy and paste the language elements in the chunks that attract your attention, allow you to select the most relevant and conceptually significant information, which serve as a search stimulus in the process of linguistic information processing and help you to interpret the text:

"The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long night seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. The swallows nested in the drawing-room; the floor was strewn with straw; the plaster fell in shovelfuls; rats carried off this and that to gnaw behind the wainscots. The lawn waved with long grass; giant artichokes towered among roses; a fringed carnation flowered among the cabbages; while the gentle tapping of a weed at the window had become, on winters' nights, a drumming from sturdy trees and thorned briars which made the whole room green in summer. ("Virginia Woolf - “To the Lighthouse”).

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