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English essay's words

Hello, can someone, anyone, please list a bunch of words that when put into an essay, it makes the essay sound good and impressive. I need it quick as the paper is due tomorrow! Thanks

  

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Well, without knowing the subject of the essay, I can only guess. But including at least some of these words and phrases should ensure a good mark: equivocal tendentious paradoxically chromatic gender-specific polynomial Claude Lévi-Strauss discourse sub-canonical genre Pascal's wager postmodernist pro-postmodernist sexual mores anti-postmodernist Simpsonian metatext typology erstwhile allusion seminal carnivalesque crux Jacques Derrida plinth infallibly revolutionary aesthetic representative kitten earnest parole Aphra Behn lingering doubts MrP

— MrPedantic

  • Well, without knowing the subject of the essay, I can only guess.
  • But including at least some of these words and phrases should ensure a good mark: equivocal tendentious paradoxically chromatic gender-specific polynomial Claude Lévi-Strauss discourse sub-canonical genre Pascal's wager postmodernist pro-postmodernist sexual mores anti-postmodernist Simpsonian metatext typology erstwhile allusion seminal carnivalesque crux Jacques Derrida plinth infallibly revolutionary aesthetic representative kitten earnest parole Aphra Behn lingering doubts MrP
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Well, without knowing the subject of the essay, I can only guess. But including at least some of these words and phrases should ensure a good mark:

equivocal
tendentious
paradoxically
chromatic
gender-specific
polynomial
Claude Lévi-Strauss
discourse
sub-canonical
genre
Pascal's wager
postmodernist
pro-postmodernist
sexual
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Hi MrP

Could you explain me what the following items mean?

Aphra Behn
Jacques Derrida
carnivalesque

Thanks
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Hello Mav

Aphra Behn was a (female) 17th century English writer of drama and fiction. She is now much studied.

Jacques Derrida, who died recently, was a French philosopher. He is known for his influence on literary studies ('post-structuralism' especially).

'Carnivalesque' means 'having the nature of a carnival'; though it's usually used metaphorically.

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what is carnivalesque?
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Dear MrP,

I took your advice and included every one of your whole list of great words in my last essay, but I still got a low mark. My teacher got a headache. I think she doesn't like me.

Clive
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Well, I didn't necessarily include them in the right order.

That would have been too easy.

MrP
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ROFL

I think many students believe they need these words to get an A:

Firstly

Secondly,

Not but not least

In conclusion

Nonetheless

on the grounds that

at this point in time

in light of the fact that

The last few may not help anybody get an A, but when changed to Courier 12, will at least help fill up the pag
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Emotion: smile

I recall a long chat with Anon1 about "first" and "firstly".

MrP
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For me, I don't really think coming up with big and fanciful words will guarantee an A grade if you don't know what they mean and are used in context. What matter more though are the style, content and structure of your presentation. Try to use as many different sentence structures as possible will also help, but this is much harder than putting down whatever vocabulary or synonyms that you take
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To indicate more information
Besides - Making an additional point; anyway
Furthermore
In addition
Moreover
Likewise
Indeed - In truth
In fact
Also
As well
Foremost - Ranking above all others; Preceding all others in spatial position
First, Second, Third, Finally
Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly
To indicate an example
For example
For instance
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