celebrated it. There was also how the world saw the blacks‚ the colored people were considered slaves and were not treated like human being at the time. The new nation was becoming an extremely diverse one. (15 points) Score 2. Throughout history‚ literature has been used as a form of protest. Choose two selections from this unit and explain why they can be thought of as protest literature. Discuss each selection in its own complete paragraph. Answer: I have found that in the writings
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Regional accents show great variation across the areas where English is spoken as a first language. This reading provided an overview of the many identifiable variations in pronunciation‚ deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect‚ of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers. Local accents are part of local dialects. Dialects of English have unique features in pronunciation‚ vocabulary‚ and grammar. I have learned that the term "accent"
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Alliteration: The headline employs alliteration through the repetition of the letter ‘P’ in order to engage the reader as well as hold his attention. Allusion: The writer eludes to the horrors of the Holocaust in the hope of evoking a visceral response that will encourage support for the current Iraq War. Analogy The writer employs the analogy of cancer. In doing so‚ he likens gambling to the infamous malignant tumour as to suggest the devastating effects of gambling on the health of
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How William Shakespeare changed the English language William Shakespeare was born/baptized on April 26th 1564 and died on April 23rd 1616. He was an English poet and playwright‚ widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world ’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England ’s national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works consist of about 38 plays‚ 154 sonnets‚ two long narrative poems‚ and several other poems. His plays have been translated
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Grice’s Maxims Quantity [don’t say too much or too little]; Relevance [keep to the point]; Manner [speak in a clear‚ coherent and orderly way]; Quality [be truthful] Grice’s Maxims Quantity [don’t say too much or too little]; Relevance [keep to the point]; Manner [speak in a clear‚ coherent and orderly way]; Quality [be truthful] Filler Items which do not carry conventional meaning but which are inserted in speech to allow time to think‚ to create a pause or to hold a turn in
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History of Indian Novels History of novels was endowed with the rare impetus of Indian Freedom Movement‚ flourishing under its colossal umbrella. It would perhaps be just not a mere overstatement if stated that - literature and history are very much intimately linked. Literature is known to represent history without any exaggeration or a biasness of the mind set-up. And history is no better portrayed in Indian literature than the novels that have been rendered life with much pain‚ love
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group) • Power in discourse- the ways in which power us manifested in situations through language • Power behind discourse- the focus on social and ideological reasons behind the enactment of power. (Gender‚ class etc.) • You cannot look at how power is communicated through language without looking at the society. • Language is underpinned by strong ideological perspectives. • No example of language used is a completely neutral. Fairclough- Synthetic personalisation- Basically when
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Designating English as the Official Language of the United States Carolyn Davis May 23‚ 2011 Designating English as the official language of the United States English should be the official language of the United States because it is the original language of the United States. Everyone that lives in or moves to the United States should have to learn English as a primary or secondary language. Also‚ I am not saying that it should be the only language spoken in the United States‚ It should
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The Future Status of English as a Global Language─Now is No Forever! As an English major and a bilingual person‚ it’s hard to jump out of the box and deny the deep‚ great‚ far-reaching influence and outspread of English. It seems true that English has become the universal language─the one accredited language to use in professional academic fields‚ the almost instinctive choice of language for people to speak in foreign countries‚ remarkably the none-English-speaking ones‚ and a universally
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Should English be declared the official language of the United States? When in 1981 Senator S. I. Hayakawa ask‚ for the first in US history consideration of new amendment in United States Constitution to elect English as the official language it raises a question: Why now? Americans for over 200 years lived without declaring English as their official language‚ so why do they need this now? People living in the United States have two different points of view: one group‚ majority
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