organizations. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations. The development of Spanish phonology is distinguished from those of other nearby Romance languages (e.g. Portuguese‚ Catalan) by several features: diphthongization of Latin stressed short E and O in closed syllables as well as open (tiempo‚ puerta vs. Portuguese tempo‚ porta) devoicing and further development of the medieval Spanish sibilants‚ producing (1) the velar fricative [x] in words such as caja‚ hijo‚ gente‚ and (2)
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listjrojnrognrok‚nrkngiytgffffffklemfkrgmrkgrkgrknrkgnrkgrkgnrkgrkngrkgnrknrk- ngrkngrknrknrkgnrkngrkngrkngrkgnrkgnrkngrkngrkngkrgnrkgnrkgn- krngrkgnrkgnkrgnrkngrkgrkrkgnngñ111111efdlsgk’l.gnek;s‚Literary Terms: Allegory: a story in which characters‚ events‚ and places represent something in real life. Alliteration: the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word‚ such as the repetition of b sounds in Keats’s "beaded bubbles winking at the brim" ("Ode to a Nightingale") or Coleridge’s
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Analogy-two things that have something in common making them comparable [EX: ‘His resolve was that of a rock.’ Meaning his determination was hard‚ in similarity to the hardness of a rock.] 4. Anapest- two short syllables‚ or two unstressed syllables followed by one long‚ or stressed syllable [EX: A classic example is from
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A Cinderella Story The poem “Cinderella” by Sylvia Plath is a Shakespearean sonnet outlining a distressing moment for the tragic maiden Cinderella. This poem illustrates the impermanence of beauty and youth through contrast and images. All happiness‚ however satisfying‚ must eventually end‚ resulting in suffering and desperation. Love and youth‚ like all things‚ are impermanent and will eventually wilt. The speaker states‚ “Rose candles flicker on the lilac wall” (7)‚ using an onomatopoeia “flicker”
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Linking words and developing rhythm for greater fluency TITLE: Unit 03 Linking Introduction 3 Linking 4 Pronunciation in context 9 Types of linking 11 Rhythm 17 Thought groups and pausing 26 Contractions 31 When do I use contractions? 31 Why should I use contractions? 32 Voice work – consonants 34 What is a consonant? 34 Voiced and unvoiced consonants 34 Final consonant sounds 35 Final ‘s’ word endings 37 Check your progress 39
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Essay #1: A Close Reading of William Wordsworth´s “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge‚ September 3‚ 1802” The poem‚ a Petricharan sonnet‚ “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge‚ September 3‚ 1802” by William Wordsworth describes the view from Westminster Bridge in an early morning sunlight and represents the image even more the beauty of London city in a very positive and peaceful way. The speaker achieves to produce an image in the reader´s mind that is so clear‚ that the reader is able to picture himself
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The poem is divided into 5 stanzas‚ each with cross rhymes. Therefore‚ the rhyming pattern can be described as: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ. Most rhymes are full and consist only of a single syllable – that is‚ they contain the same vowel in the stressed syllable‚ followed by the same consonant. The exception “separate story – transitory”‚ “upon these – auguries”‚ where the rhymes are established with the help of word combinations. The lines are
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14 CHAPTER 2 Articulatory Phonetics SPEECH SOUND FORM LEARNING OBJECTIVES 2 When you have finished this chapter‚ you should be able to: • List the differences in production and function of vowels versus consonants. • Identify the three descriptive parameters that are used for vowel articulations‚ and classify the vowels of American English using those three parameters. • Differentiate between monophthong and diphthong vowels. • Define centering diphthongs. • Differentiate between a phonemic
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Situation of Poem: This poem does not tell a story‚ but instead is a narrative piece of how she feels and the authors feelings towards certain things like children and her husband. The author expresses her life much through this poem. The speaker of the poem seems to be Sylvia Plath herself‚ and she seems to be speaking directly to the audience‚ no more like as if she is speaking to people around her‚ that understand her life. Because her life one can make direct connections to her life and to
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- http://www.indiana.edu/~gasser/L503/vowels.gif Classifying the Vowels Sounds of English The classifcation of vowels is based on four major aspects: Tongue height - according to the vertical position of the tongue (high vowels‚ also referred to as close; low vowels‚ also referred to as open; intermediate - close-mid and open-mid) Frontness vs. backness of the tongue - according to the horizontal position of the highest part of the tongue. Lip rounding - whether the lips are rounded
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