the sequence of your paragraphs‚ no transition will help you. Transitions can be made with particular words and phrases created for that purpose--conjunctive adverbs and transitional phrases--or they can be implied through a conceptual link. Conjunctive Adverbs and Transitional Phrases Conjunctive adverbs modify entire sentences in order to relate them to preceding sentences or paragraphs; good academic writers use many of them‚ but not so many that they overload the page. Here is a list
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structure‚ sentence length‚ vocabulary‚ and other literary features to portray a sense of passing time in this excerpt from “A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat‚” where the author experiences a donkey race with Karachi locals. Levine utilizes sentence length to create a sense of passing time. She describes the impending conclusion to the race with a long‚ descriptive sentence followed by “the race is over‚” a four word sentence. The employment of a long sentence followed by a short sentence creates
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me assume that Pip was a young boy. - Reread the sentence highlighted in orange. Notice the intense descriptive language Dickens uses. What do you think is the author’s purpose for including such an extraordinarily long descriptive sentence? From rereading the orange highlighted sentence I believe Dickens was trying achieve sympathy for Pip because he lost both his mother and father; and he also never knew them. - List 10 words from this same sentence that produce a frightening tone. 1- bleak - unwelcoming
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to rock like silver darts thrust like scattershot by some unseen hand. Analysis: The descriptive images in the paragraph above are obscured by unfortunate and unnecessary comparisons. Note the figures of speech in the highlighted words and phrases in the copy of the same paragraph below: Cool water flows through the rocky banks of the creek and into a wide pond. Reeds and cattails surrounding the bank embrace the pond like a mother’s enfolding arms reaching out to caress her sleeping child
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published on the 4th October 2012. The first text I am analysing is Text A which was written by Andrew Charlesworth‚ and begins with the minor sentence ‘Why Facebook is bad for you’. It is bold and in a bigger font than the rest of the article; this graphology attracts your attention and tells you immediately what the text is about. The complex sentence ‘Networking website…mates’ gets you to relate to it if you use Facebook as a form of entertainment‚ and we agree with the attributive adjective
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Shauna Hwang Day 1 * Prepositional phrases – generally consist of a preposition and a noun or pronoun Ex: The sweet potatoes in the vegetable bin are green with mold. * Appositive phrases – a noun or pronoun with modifiers that adds information by identifying‚ renaming‚ or explaining a noun or pronoun Ex: I can’t find my notebook‚ the one I use for history class. * Participial phrases – a participle modified by an adverb or adverbial phrase accompanied by a complement Ex: Feeling
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‘ing’ is a noun i.e running: a noun‚ but ‘to run’ is a verb EXAMPLE SENTENCES The boy is in love. boy: common noun‚ functioning as the subject of the sentence love: common noun Skipping through Central Park is energizing. Skipping: gerund noun‚ functioning as the subject of the sentence Central Park: proper noun Watching the movie made me feel sick. Watching: gerund noun‚ functioning as the subject of the sentence movie: common noun *When using a gerund‚ use the possessive pronoun
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result. You let the berries dry in the sun till all moisture has gone of them. Then you gather them and chop them very fine. (Halliday and Hasan‚ 1976: 17) In this example‚ the demonstrative pronoun “this” is used to refer to the whole next two sentences. It should be noted that cataphoric reference does not always contribute to cohesion as the anaphoric does. The second type of cohesive devices suggested by Halliday and Hasan is substitution. A substitution is used to replace one item with
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understanding of the relationships between words‚ and the syntactic identification which assumes that each linguistic element like a noun‚ a verb‚ etc. can have an intrinsic value of sentiment that is propagated through the syntactic structure of the parsed sentence This study is concerned with reviewing the latest used semantic and syntactical tools used for the subjectivity analysis and the sentiment analysis. We performed our analysis based on the existing literature review on that topic and we combined both
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a repetition of similar sounds in the sentence. Alliterations are also created when the words all begin with the same letter. Allusion An allusion is a figure of speech whereby the author refers to a subject matter such as a place‚ event‚ or literary work by way of a passing reference. It is up to the reader to make a connection to the subject being mentioned. Amplification Amplification refers to a literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order
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