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    Stylistics

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    because the word ‘ashes’ has been repeated to focus the reader’s attention as to what he will be foregrounding. Next‚ is the stylistic device called semantic deviation. The writer has compared the landfill of ashes to a wheat field of a farm through the use of a simile. Furthermore‚ it has been compared to mountainous features‚ an ugly landscape and a house with lit chimneys. The writer has also created a semantic field to describe the dreary mining valley with the following words: ashes‚ smoke

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    describes the first principle as deleting words that mean little or nothing. For example‚ writing sentences without words‚ such as actually‚ basically‚ generally‚ or really‚ can clearly bring out the true meaning of the sentence. The second principle is to delete words the repeat meaning. He explains that this mostly happens in pairing words when describing an instance. Similar to this concept‚ the third principle is to delete words that are implied by other words. Williams explains that this is common

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    Glossary of Linguistic Terms

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    more intense and dramatic. Acronym: An acronym is where words are shortened to just the first letter. E.G. ‘U.N’ is an acronym as it is short for ‘United Nations’. The effect of acronyms is normally to add verisimilitude or realism to a text. It also makes a text harder to understand as the reader must know what the acronym stands for. Adjective: A class of word that describes the noun. E.g. the blue ball. Here the word blue is the adjective and serves to give the reader more information

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    is not addressed. • Spelling 1 point – Spelling does not interfere with the readability of the piece. All of the incorrectly spelled words are easily decipherable to the reader within 3 seconds. 0 points – Spelling interferes with the readability of the piece. One or more of the incorrectly spelled words is not easily decipherable to the reader. • Capitalization/Punctuation 2 points – Capitalization and punctuation errors do not interfere

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    ‘Explosion into Reading’‚ around the age of five. Reading is an extension of the development of Vocabulary‚ the child discovers how a known word looks in graphic form after she has become a fluent speaker and has benefited from indirect and direct Enrichment Activities‚ the Three Period Lesson‚ Language Training and Writing. It is impossible to read an unknown word meaningfully‚ in the Casa a child begins to read at around four years‚ some eight to ten months after beginning to write with the Moveable

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    Nothing Gold Can Stay

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    The shortness of life * Loss of innocence Rhyme Scheme: * Aa‚bb‚cc‚dd Nothing Gold Can Stay “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom” -Robert Frost Robert Frost has a fine talent for putting delight and wisdom into poetry. Words which are first read and seemingly simplistic‚ tend to illuminate in symbolism and representation. He combines imagery‚ personification and paradox into a whimsical poetic masterpiece. Nothing Gold Can Stay‚ a poem written in 1923‚ embodies the concept

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    The Log of redesigned booklet Hung Hiu Man 11677694 Yeung Yu Yin 11677280 Ideology of redesigned booklet When it comes to redesign a booklet‚ we try to look for some other booklet to have a idea that can insert into the booklet. Since we think that booklet should be clear and neat for people to catch the information inside‚ so we comes up a initial idea that is turn to integrate the different intern experiences. Initial idea of our booklet We find out that category

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    The Book Thief Themes

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    before‚ such like how important it is to express oneself. It seems like words are basically the main thing that keeps her alive in the bleak world and that keeps her to encourage others in this chaos caused by warfare. When everything in her life is messed up‚ reading and writing takes her out of this world. Maybe that’s part of the reason why she is so attracted to books. Even more than bread. ‘"Trust me‚ though‚ the words were on their way‚ and when they arrived‚ Liesel would hold them in her

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    Spanglish & Linguistics

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    Spanglish is a well-known term that describes the linguistic behaviors on Spanish speakers‚ who’s Spanish is uniquely influenced from the English language. Spanglish can also be defined as a “mixed-code vernacular that includes a range of linguistic phenomena‚ most notably code-switching”. Despite the fact that Puerto Rican linguist‚ Salvador Tio‚ coined the term ‘Spanglish’ in the late 1940’s‚ this language contact phenomena has actually been used over the past 150 years‚ since the Treaty of Guadalupe

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    literature to use cunt in an irreverent manner. Throughout the poem the word “cunt” functions as a synecdochial extension to refer to the whole female human body. Two specific passages pair the word “cunt” with aversive stimuli that may have led to its future and widespread irreverent use among the verbal community (Hughes‚ 2006). In lines 113-114 (“When your lewd cunt came spewing home / Drenched with the seed of half the town”) the word “lewd” modifies “cunt” to indicate that the presence of a female

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