One of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States.
Literary Experimentalist
Stream of consciousness
Fragmented chronology
Shifting point of view
Multiple narrative voices
Southern Gothic
feature grotesque scenes, violence and horror, distorted characters, melodrama, and sensationalism.
It begins with the death of Emily Grierson and starts to recall Emi
Construct of CC (Michael Canale & Merril Swain)
Grammatical Competence
: aspect of CC that encompasses “knowledge of lexical items and rules of morphology, syntax, sentence-grammar semantics, and phonology.”
Discourse Competence
: the ability we have to connect sentences in stretches of discourse and to form a meaningful whole out of a series of utterances.
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He has also been described as a
magic realist.
His first-hand experiences of civil war in Nigeria are said to have inspired many of his works.
He writes about both the mundane and the metaphysical, the individual and the collective, drawing the reader into a world with vivid descriptions.
Three soldiers drank wine and played game in
Omovo's bar. they gave allowance to Omovo
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
Muddy water->gold
: The change may represent the improved status of
African Americans after the Civil War.
Personification: “the singing of the Mississippi,”
“muddy bosom,”
“Dusky rivers”
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Writers may give specific examples as evidence to support their general claims or arguments. Examples can also be used to help the reader or listener understand unfamiliar or difficult concepts, and they tend to be easier to remember. Many paragraphs show development from general statements to specific details or examples. In most paragraphs, therefore, examples usually come after a more general