Muhammad Ali Analysis

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In this investigation, I’ll be analysing three texts on Muhammad Ali. I found these three text from different source in the internet. First text I chose to analyse was the fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, also known as “The Rumble On The Jungle”. The writer starts off by using a post-modifying adjective “underdog” to state Ali being the weakest among the two heavyweights, showing that he isn’t any threat to worry about. “Commentators felt that Ali had reached the end of the road” the verb “Felt” represents the opinion of the commentators that Ali has grown old to this game and also believes its best if he would hang off his gloves. Then the writer uses lots of superlative adjectives such as “Bigger”, “Younger” and “stronger” to describe Ali’s opponent Foreman, who was like an obstacle in Ali’s path towards the championship belt and also the crowd favourite to win the match. Furthermore the writer boasts about Foreman’s victory against the two men who previously beat Muhammad Ali by using powerful post-modifying adjective “Foreman had destroyed…” showing Foreman’s superiority against Ali and trying to boost up his confidence before the match. The writer then uses an adjective “great” to describe the noun “promotion”, describing the readers that it was one of the most renowned boxing matches ever to be promoted in the history of boxing. Focusing back to Muhammad Ali, the verb “Muhammad Ali soon settled into Africa” implies that he has established himself in Africa, where the match was taking place, to get familiar with the extreme climate. Ali being well Ali had already won over some crowd already, the adjective “he was recognised even in the remotest…”shows that his popularity was growing in faraway parts of the country as well, Giving Ali a much needed confidence boost to head against Fraser. The crowd gave Ali his own mantra “Ali Boma Ye” translated

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