language

**Language:**
When you are asked to analyze the language, concentrate on how the elements of language combine to form a whole- how diction, syntax, figurative language, and sentence structure create a cumulative effect.

"It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York—and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. they are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. to the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip." - Charles Dickens

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing." - Mark Twain

__Diction:__ the term for a writer or speaker's distinctive choices in vocabulary and style of expression

__Syntax:__ (from Ancient Greek συν- syn-, “together”, and τάξις táxis, “arrangement”)

__Figurative Language:__ analysing language divided linguistic expressions into two classes: literal and figurative

__Sentence Structure:__ is a unit of language, characterized in most languages by the presence of a finite verb

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