"The cohesion of foregrounding in Gwendolyn Brook's ''Michael is Afraid of the Storm '' and '' Martin Luther King Jr.'' Dr. Jihan Hassan Mohammad | ||
| سرديات | ||
| Article 4, Volume 9, Issue 33, September 2019, Pages 103-126 PDF (396.41 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sardiat.2019.95252 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper deals with cohesion of foregrounding in of foregrounding in Gwendolyn Brook's ''Michael is Afraid of the Storm'' and ''Martin Luther King Jr.''.This linguistic phenomenon is inevitable: it almost exists in every literary text. Foregrounding can be achieved by two ways either deviating from the norm or confining one’ self to the same norm. Gwendolyn Brook is a well- known Black African poet. The paper studies two poems written by Brook: ''Michael is Afraid of the Storm'' and ‘‘Martin Luther King Jr.’’.The poems are rich in foregrounding features: parallelism, similes, metaphors and alliteration. At the same time, they have many cohesive devices such as reference, and conjunctions. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| foregrounding; deviation; simile; metaphor; cohesion; reference; conjunction; African literature | ||
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