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This gives the reader a sense of a personal environment because O’Neill is directly drawing them in with his home-type language. Also, his diction shows that he is attempting to use an exciting tone to call the readers in this way. He uses words and phrases such as, “hullabaloo,” “heckling,” and “wisecracks,” to excite the reader by presenting them with informal language used around the…

clauses and sentences boundaries in discourse. It is known as the role played by particular basic semantic relations between words in order to create textuality. (McCarthy, 1991, P. 65) To add, lexical cohesion is truly achieved by using the lexical links through a text. Notably that lexical cohesion occurs when two lexis in a text are semantically related in some way. In other words, lexical cohesion refers to relationships in meaning between lexical items in a text. (Paltridge, 2006, P.…

Repetition happens a lot throughout this poem. Repeating the same phrases over and over again give the reader an insight on how the narrator is feeling about the death that has happened. It also makes the reader feel the emotions and how sad this poem actually is. The narrator is going through a difficult situation and the repetition in the poem makes it even more deep than it is meant to. It also may be relatable to someone who has gone through a death of a relative. The repetition may also…

confirms, it validates her reason to leave. It reminds her that she made the right decision to leave him behind. The mothers feels no need to worry about him, it calms her down and allows her to look forward, to the future. Freedom is a seven letter word that empowers many people. In the case of the story “Joyride”, the thought of freedom allowed John Dern’s mother to build up the courage to run away from her husband. No matter if the reasoning was good or bad, it did not matter. The only one…

1. In “The Early Catastrophe”, Hart & Risley provided a figure that demonstrates the vocabulary size trajectory of the children in the study, stratified by age group (page 4). It appears that the trajectory of vocabulary size between children of middle/lower SES versus those on welfare remains very similar until about 23 months of age. This made me wonder why it is that the vocabulary size trajectory seems to dramatically increase around this age among children of lower/middle SES families, in…

indicating a missing letter in some location of the word. Show students a concrete object and provide the name of the object. Let students select the correct letter card that will spell the word of the object shown. • Play stretch and snap. Teach students to s—tr—e—t—ch a word out by its sounds and then to snap the word back together to aide them in oral recognition of the word. Frequent practice of this technique will help students identify words that stump them while reading. Teacher may use…

episodes of the A Way With Words radio show, I would like to add some new vocabulary to my language repertoire. One episode in particular, “XYZ PDQ”, peaked my interest, probably because every word and phrase examined in that episode is a word or phrase that I would like to start using. Now, you are probably wondering what on earth this cool radio show is even about. Let me tell you, this radio show answers questions from a all levels of English speakers about what certain words or phrases are…

weaknesses. Student A excels at being able to tap out sounds within a three sound word, as student B is able to tap out the individual sounds of words with 4-5 sounds in them. These activities however acted as review for the students being as they were exposed to these concepts in kindergarten. During whole class instruction I have noticed that student A lacks in properly matching sounds to letters within the words, often getting confused with o, a, u. On the other hand, student B is right on…

out unknown words they encounter whilst reading and also to gain meaning from the text, this can be seen in the graph below. Cueing Systems Graphophonic Syntatic Semantic • Phonics • Phonemic Awareness • Letters • Sounds • Spelling • Vocabulary • Grammar • Tenses • Comprehension • Making sense of texts (Graph adapted from Dr Ali Cullerton, Ph.D (2015) Semantic The semantic portion…

and Meaningless words. Dying Metaphors are prefabricated metaphors that have been used many times in many different contexts. It can also be metaphors that have been switched from their original meaning without the person using them even knowing. An example given by Orwell of such is the phrase “toe the line” is sometimes written as “tow the line”. Operators or verbal false limbs is defined by Orwell as…