Eng2601 Assignment 2

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ENG2601 ASSIGNMENT 2 ENG2601 ASSIGNMENT 2 Question 1 The comic is about a group of serial killers that are meeting for a convention. They are just being relaxed and chatting with each other, before their proceedings begin. The writer used popular metaphors that relate to death and violence. The writer uses repetition cohesion. For example in block 8 and 12 “the family man” is repeated. He also uses collocation cohesion. This is to describe words which occur together in the text, and the text is about the serial killers. Words like “killer”, “murder”, “dead”, “killed”, “die”, “slays”, and “buried” are used. These words all relate to people who are serial killers. Substitution is being used in block 9. It reads “Uh, would that be the Kentucky devil, or the Oregon devil? I got both here.” Instead of repeating “Kentucky devil, or the Oregon devil” in the second sentence, he just uses the word “both”. He has used conjunction in “Wouldn’t be seen dead here, if it wasn’t for the convention.” He could have stopped with the first part of the sentence, but he decided to add the second part to revise his first sentence. Question 2 2.1 The context of the opening line is described by using the following words, “test”, “lecturer”, and “passing”. 2.2 American English | Standard English | Slammer | Jail | Hollering | Shouting | Fret | Be concerned | 2.3 maats – friends dronk – drunk bliksem – hit Question 3 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 3.2 My Birthday When it was my birthday, I went to an island for a picnic. I took Simone and Megan. We went on a boat. When we got there, be played for a bit and then we then had the picnic. When it was time to go home, the boat was gone. I started to cry and I wanted to go home. Simone had an idea that we could make a word out of pebbles. What is the word going to say? It

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