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My Dear father
I received your letter yesterday. I am fine. I am glad to know that you all are safe and sound. In the letter, you have wanted to know about my hostel life. Here, I am giving you a brief description of it.
The environment of my hostel is very charming. There is an open field in front of my hostel. I and my friends play here every afternoon. My hostel life is very happy and enjoyable. I can study here attentively. All the students are very helpful and friendly. Living here, I get opportunity to follow some rules and regulations. The foods are of high quality. The canteen and dining room are also neat and clean. In a word, I feel very happy living here.
No more today. My best regard to you
Yours affectionately
Answers: (please read the descriptions)
An email giving details of five broken vases received from a seller:
- Claim - part of me wants to say that this is a request, but nothing in the sentence says that the customer wanted to be refunded or receive a new product. With this knowledge, this is most likely a claim since the customer is making a claim about the product received. However, I could be incorrect.
A letter outlining an idea to increase a company's sales by 10 percent:
- Proposal - This is an idea, not a plan in effect. Therefore, it is a proposal.
A letter complaining about the service at a dry cleaner:
- Claim - Once again, I want to say that this is a request, but nothing in the sentence says that the customer is requesting a refund for the service, so I am going to say that this is a claim since the customer is making a claim about their service. Once again, I could be incorrect.
An email asking employees to attend a charity event:
Answer:
A German priest of the 1600s. Athanasius Kircher, wrote the first grammar and vocabulary of Coptic, the language of Christian Egypt.
Explanation:
Answer:
"And then they arrived - the minister's family and all my relatives in a clamor of doorbells and rumpled Christmas packages."- Imagery.
"Robert grunted hello, and I pretended he was not worthy of existence."- Onomatopoeia.
Explanation:
Literary devices are the different techniques that writers use in describing their characters or giving the details of the story. These devices enable better expressions of the ideas and emotions of the writers and their own styles of presenting the story.
In the first sentence, Amy Tan's description of the guests who arrived <em>"in a clamor of doorbells and rumpled Christmas packages"</em> uses <u>imagery</u> in describing them. It appeals to the sense of sight and sound, appealing to the readers' senses.
Moreover, the word <em>"grunted" </em>in the second sentence is an <u>onomatopoeia</u>, where the word is derived from the sound it produces.
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