Some consider Chinua Achebe the father of modern African Literature.
<span>he puts forth images of African-Americans, jazz music, and many more topics that have been a part of his life. These elements are what influenced him, and shows it in the works that he has written. He uses jazz and blues styles for subjects and for structure in his pieces of literature. In Hughes' poetry, he would try to bring out the sound, cadence, and rhythms from blues and jazz music. He would also use humor, loneliness, and despair, to imitate the sound of blues and jazz music with words. </span>
Verbal irony<span> is a figure of speech. The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says. The different sorts of discrepancy between the meaning of what is said and what is in fact on the particular occasion meant with it give rise to different kinds of verbal irony</span>
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A compound sentence consists of 2 independent clauses. Meanwhile, a complex sentence consists of 1 independent and 1 or more dependent clauses.
1. complex sentence
2. compound sentence
3. complex sentence
4. compound sentence
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