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Sophia’s literacy development in the area of language shows a normal sign developmentally for a 9 year old child. She is a fluent speaker of English, and she speaks Spanish as well. Sophia speaks standard English comfortably, she rarely uses slang or vernacular dialect. Sophia’s phonemic awareness becomes strong which she is able to identify and manipulate the sounds. She is no problem in constructing complex sentences at her age, she can speak long declaratives which include clauses. For…

The author uses figurative language to contribute to the tension in “A Costly Treasure” by describing the figurative language. She is describing it to let you know what she is seeing. The author uses figurative language to contribute to the tension in A Costly Treasure for example, the passage stated that a rock “looked like someone’s petrified brain.” This is figurative language because a rock can’t actually be a petrified brain. This is also figurative language because the author was…

than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning” (Angelou 98). While written word can communicate a message, spoken word can convey additional subtleties, such as tone, inflection, and body language. The fiery passion and energy conveyed through speech can move an audience and can evoke emotion. Unlike written word, spoken word can also more easily persuade others because it has a more immediate effect as opposed to writing. One’s voice…

An excerpt from Susan Sontag’s book Illness opens a reader up to a realization that metphors used in relation to illness are the “ill prejudiced by the lurid metphors with which it has been landscaped”. Sontag’s attitude towards metaphors comes from her strong understanding of how they are just a made up illusion to capture an audience. Metaphors are just a made up illusion to capture an audience because they elude the seriousness of a true illness and dishonor it does to an illness. Sontag has…

linguistics 1. Introduction “[....] the listener does not necessarily hear what was said, but rather hears their construction of what they think is said; they subconsciously combine the speech signal (the sounds) with prior knowledge of speech, language and context in their own heads (Fraser 2003, cited in Coulthard, et al 2017 p.130). Those words, indirectly, call for reconsideration of distinguishing a voice as a natural task. Coulthard, et al 2017 mentioned in the findings of a study done…

phonological and articulatory impairments can be developmental impairment in speech-sound production, language impairment in their production of sounds of the language, hearing impairments which enable them to acquire speech sounds or neuromuscular disorder that can cause weakness, paralysis or poor coordination of speech muscles. 2) What are some speech characteristics of a child with a language learning disability? Some of the characteristics…

parents, there are some physical problems that she had when she was discovered whereby she is not able to express herself which means that she couldn’t talk and had the language as the baby. This indicates that she is not being exposed by her parents to any significant amount of speech as it shows that she did not acquire language during her childhood. Her father did this as he thinks that her daughter was mentally retarded. Next, she also couldn’t walk properly and the characteristic of her…

Semantic satiation is the occurrence when something is said so many times that it temporarily loses its meaning or sounds weird. This means that through uninterrupted repetition, a word loses its relationship with its definition and pronunciation. This effect allows authors to change the meaning of the word and therefore the story, without altering the word itself. Many critics, like Barbara Bengels, say that The Turn of the Screw’s uniqueness comes from its ability to perplex the reader and…

poems with other words, of different meaning to widely express themselves. Figurative language is the technique that an author uses to do so. Figurative language is a way an author can say something that has a completely different meaning from what they are trying to say, and still, provides an understanding of what is being said. The three poems that are being discussed use several different types of figurative language, including verbal, and dramatic irony. The poem “Barbie Doll” written by…

The Use of Metaphors in Romeo and Juliet In the play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare employs metaphors to help the audience or reader with what is going on in the plot. The way Shakespeare puts metaphors to use, shows that he wants the audience to be intrigued the whole duration of the play. Shakespeare’s metaphors can help relieve a scene with comic relief or to aid in the deep emotion of the scene. He writes his metaphors to deepen his plot and to emphasize certain things in his writing.…