as productive members of society. Even though the same cannot be said today, the California penal system was once a model that many states had used to structure their prison system after. In the 1950’s the California Penal system was structured to focus more on rehabilitation rather than punishment. Prisoners were not given mandatory sentences as they
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STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S HALF OF A YELLOW SUN BY OHANEDOZI LILIAN C. ENG/ 2009/ 126 FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CARITAS UNIVERSITY AMORJI- NIKE ENUGU STATE AUGUST 2013 e i TITLE PAGE STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S HALF OF A YELLOW SUN BY OHANEDOZI LILIAN C. ENG/ 2009/ 126 A RESEARCH WORK PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF ARTS (B.A) DEGREE IN ENGLISH FACULTY
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the inversion and repetition. A stylistic device is a conscious and intentional intencification of some typical structural or semantic property of a language unit (word, word combination or sentence) promoted to a generalised stater and thus become a generative model. stylistic devices are built according to a fixed model [a nice table, a tasty table, an angry table; a tasty table - a case of metonomy, an angry table - a transfered epithet]. Expressive means are trite and frequently employed. Stylistic
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1.0: Introduction Writing is one of the most crucial aspects in language learning. It is not an easy task as it seems as writing is actually a process; and it is the teachers’ responsibilities to help students becoming good writers. According to Hedge (2005), writing process consists of four stages that are ‘Composing’, ‘Communicating’, ‘Crafting’ and ‘Improving’ (pp. 17). Therefore, this essay presents the main principles that underlie in activities that assist learners at these different stages
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Ace The IELTS Essential tips for IELTS General Training Module © September 2005 By Simone Braverman All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system without prior permission of the author. Making copies of any part of this book for any purpose other than your own personal use is a violation of International Copyright Laws. Limits of Liability/ Disclaimer of Warranty The author and publisher of this book
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expressed. * Which of the following sentences is true about internal-operational communication: It mainly includes the orders and instructions that supervisors give to their employees. * The ability to create and interpret graphics is called visual literacy: True Chapter 4 * To write economically: to eliminate surplus words, and eliminate cluttering phrases. * Short sentences carry more emphasis than long involved ones: True * Using short sentences and communication increases miscommunication:
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School, began to formulate a systematic reader-response or “reception” theory. The leading members of this school were Wolfgang Iser and Hans Robert Jauss. Such phenomenological theories deal with the important role of the reader in the overall structure of any given literary text. The reader plays a great role in shaping how the work will be understood and what meanings it will have. Each new generation and each new group of readers in a new setting brings to a literary work different code for understanding
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[pic] Гальперин И.Р. Стилистика английского языка Издательство: М.: Высшая школа, 1977 г. В учебнике рассматриваются общие проблемы стилистики, дается стилистическая квалификация английского словарного состава, описываются фонетические, лексические и лексико-фразеологические выразительные средства, рассматриваются синтаксические выразительные средства и проблемы лингвистической композиции отрезков высказывания, выходящие за пределы предложения. Одна глава посвящена выделению и классификации функциональных
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Journal of Philosophy, Inc. Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language Author(s): George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Source: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 77, No. 8 (Aug., 1980), pp. 453-486 Published by: Journal of Philosophy, Inc. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2025464 Accessed: 23/01/2009 17:46 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions
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Turner. 1. The Sentence * A sentence is a group of words that are put together to mean something. A sentence is the basic unit of language which expresses a complete thought. It does this by following the grammatical rules of syntax. A complete sentence has at least a subject and a main verb to state a complete thought. The first word of a written sentence has a capital letter, and at the end of the sentence there is a full stop or full point. The sentence consists of: subject +
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