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    Anagrams First, take a look at this sarcastic example: “The funeral is real fun”. If you look closely, the two words “funeral” and “real fun” are both made from those letters “f – u – n – e – r – a – l”. So, when you rearrange a word or phrase and a new word or phrase is created, it is called anagrams. Nevertheless, it is not feasible to have anagrams in Vietnamese, as every word has “dấu thanh” and is formed with extremely strict rules. For example, the cluster “ngh” can only go before the vowel “i”

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    Chicago as “Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler…” (lines 1-3) instead of simply saying a city with butchers, a industrial, harvesting, and a railroading city. These descriptive phrases better conjure up a city to be proud of than simple words do. Shortly after, he uses more strong diction in saying, “Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive, and coarse and strong and cunning.” (lines 10-11) The

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    Scarlet Letter Analysis Form, Structure and Plot: The structure that Hawthorne puts the Scarlet Letter is very tight, and is in essentially three parts, each revolving around the scaffold. The first scaffold scene, Hester confesses her sin of adultery to the crowd in the light of day. The second scaffold scene takes place in the middle of the book at night; it is the climax of the plot. Dimmesdale climbs onto the scaffold, and asks for Hester and Pearl to join him. This is not a confession, as there

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    utilizes readers’ connotations of words and phrases to spark independent thought and encouragement of individuals to challenge and to investigate beliefs. One such connotation is when Thoreau discusses the government and its control over the people, comparing the government’s tactics to “black arts” (Thoreau 3). The phrase “black arts” typically refers to black magic, which is the idea of invoking evil spirits to be used antagonistically. By using that phrase, Thoreau demonizes the government by comparing

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    immigration speech is prime example of what Orwell would conclude as “nonsense”. The speech breaks the elementary rules by using unfamiliar phrases, exclusive jargons,

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    Society examines the social, political, cultural and historical aspects of ideologies, the nature, and especially the role in the reproduction of, or resistance against, dominance. In Gusdur government, he formed a cabinet which was called the National Unity Cabinet. He gave freedom to the people to step up and provided the opportunity for minorities in Indonesia. However, because of this, people began to experience confusion and indecision. Yet the government never gave a clear statement on the

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    context clues. II. Common Core Standards **CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.4.A Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe

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    that the statement is valid no matter how you look at it. The statement can be valid realistically and ideally because we see that the world is run by money so, therefore, those who live in this world won’t fare well without it. Hazlitt use of the phrase “Literally and truly”, indicates that this statement should also be taken as a fact. It emphasizes that this is something that the author really believes. In this world, money is vital to us. This sentence sets that premise for the

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    alive and me amazed” (2). This sentence uses “works” repetitively in succession, this seems to reaffirm that the web is the device that captures the dead bugs and shows her awe towards the spider’s mechanism. This sentence also uses inversion with the phrase “me amazed,” the words have been switched from the syntactically correct “amazed me.” Dillard also uses repetition not isolated in a single sentence to create meaning and emphasize the

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    Finally, there are some tiny typing errors. The author wants to express reasons by using the phrase ‘due to’, but he mistakenly type ‘do to’. Also the author mistakenly type ‘without’ to ‘with out’, ‘sight’ to ‘insight’. Apart from grammar errors, the author always capitalize the first letter of a word which is unnecessary, for example, ‘Good intent’

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