ENGL 2027 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sekou Sundiata, Rhetorical Device, Tuberculosis
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A word"s semantic field consists largely of its lexical associations, that is, its more or less frequent collocations ambiguity: a statement with two or more meanings that may seem to exclude one another in the context. Grammatical ambiguity occurs where a word has two or more possible word classes. Lexical ambiguity arises where one word has multiple senses (polysemous terms) or when two different words have the same sound (homonyms). Like , or than simile: a comparison made with. Notes: the speaker is an adult man thinking back on a childhood experience as a little boy. Roethke"s parents: his father was a gardener who worked in a greenhouse. The theme of the poem: unconditional love between a father and son. To see how people"s views have changed; to learn about the past; to teach us about the human condition. Over and over again the papers print the dried out tit of an african woman holding her starving child.
