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    When we are oppressed we want to bring about change so that the oppression is no longer felt by us and is recognised by the oppressors as wrong. From the beginning the author’s main purpose is apparent. The metaphors and emotive language Grace Nichols uses‚ illustrates to us the reality of oppression towards blacks‚ through her experienced eyes. These techniques are prevalent in the poems‚ "Of Course When They Ask for Poems About the Realities of Black Women" and "The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping"

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    Figurative is used in all different aspect among restaurant and much other business around us. The figurative that I choose to discuss are hyperbole and onomatopoeia. “Hyperbole comes from a Greet meaning “over-casting” is a figure of speech‚ which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis”. (Literary Devices) One restaurant that uses figurative language is Burger King; there hyperbole is “Have It Your Way”. This figure of speech does not mean that you order a whooper with cheese

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    CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Mahasaraswati Denpasar University hold a college field work (KKL) in order to add insight and information. College field Work (KKL) is an intra- curricular activities form which is mandatory for all students Mahasaraswati University as one of the requirements to get a certificate in order to complete the final task in completing education courses in English education and teacher training faculty. Teaching education is not about how to learn the theory

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    changing attitude of the speaker towards the fish. First‚ the fish is described as ancient and grizzled‚ showing signs of death and decay. However‚ upon closer inspection‚ the fish is made out to be a survivor of many battles. Through the use of figurative language‚ the poet shows the speaker’s shift from noting only the fish’s dejection to admiring him for his past glories. Bishop begins with the personification of the fish into a figure of defeat and age. The speaker mentions that the fish had not fought

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    "...then try and transfer it across” this language is shaped and selected for the sport as “Transfer it across” wouldn’t normally be associated with a football. In addition football comes with its own lexicon‚ like other sports it includes its own unique terminology. For example Gray comments “you don’t usually take out a striker out of the penalty for a free-kick round...” The terminology used is here is “penalty” “striker” and “free-kick” the language is specifically selected for football therefore

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    1. Abstract LanguageLanguage describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things‚ people‚ or places. 2. Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds‚ such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." 3. Allusion: A reference contained in a work 4. Ambiguity: an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. 5. Analogy: a literary device employed to serve as a basis for comparison. It is assumed that what applies to the parallel situation

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    about the structure and patterns of language unique to specific authors. These patterns are what make a great book a great book. The arduous task of analyzing works for grammar and style has yielded a unique product‚ guaranteed to enlighten the reader of literary classics. Grammardog’s strategy is to put the author’s words under the microscope. The result yields an increased appreciation of the art of writing and awareness of the importance and power of language. Grammardog.com L.L.C. P.O. Box 299

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    LANGUAGE PLANNING AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Language is a typically human phenomenon. In moving from the ’natural being’ of animal existence to the ’cultural being’ of human existence‚ language plays the decisive role. Language gives a sense of identity to an individual as well as a social group and‚ in the process‚ creates multiple identities. The maintenance‚ merger‚ clash and change in identities based on and reflected in the language change has prompted linguists‚ philosophers‚ psychologists

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    Language as a tool and language as a reality Language‚ as a system of acquiring and using complex structures of communication‚ is distinguished between two components in theory of knowledge; language as a tool and language as reality. There are several manners in which language is used as a tool and in which aids cognition; one is memory augmentation‚ in which language allows the environment as an extra-cranial memory store such as physical materials capable of systematically storing large

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    shit‚ and to defecate is to shit‚ to take a shit and a new variant to leave a shit. While it is common to speak of shit as existing in a pile‚ a load‚ a hunk and other quantities and configurations‚ such expressions flourish most strongly in the figurative. For practical purposes‚ when actual defecation and excreta are spoken of in English‚ it is either through creative euphemism or with a vague and fairly rigid literalism. "Shit" can also be combined with other words to denote the type of feces

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