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My university life
MAIN IDEA AND STRUCTURE
A narrative with flashbacks sharing
memorable experiences !.
HOW DOES THE WRITER INTRODUCE HER
MEMORY ENCASED IN HER FOUR YEARS
OF UNIVERSITY?
stood with my certificate in hand
and reflected on those four years
HOW DOES THE WRITER BRING READERS
BACK TO THE PRESENT?
heard my parents'voice calling
me and I returned to the moment.
PARA 2-5
I remembered arriving at university on my
very first day,pausing at the gate to look
down the long drive.
I remembered working on my first
assignment.
I remembered cooperating with my
classmates on group projects.
I remembered visiting my favorite professor,
a tall gentleman with his beard and hair
going grey,during his office hours for the
first time.
WHAT RHETORICAL DEVICE IS EMPLOYED?
A parallelism is a figure of speech that uses
similar structures in separate sentences to express
related ideas.In this way,the sentences are
emphasized and forceful.In parallel structure,it
is necessary to balance word for word,phrase for
phrase,clause for clause and sentence for
sentence.In other words,the general principle of
parallelism is:similar ideas are expressed by
similar grammatical forms.
PARA 2-5
Can we arrange these paragraphs
at random?
SENTENCES
Little did I know that I was about to
experience the best four years of my life.
It soon downed on me that many university
professor are quite willing to share what they
know,and they do take a genuine interest in
their students' intellectual development.
Not only am l now more intellectually
Drepared for the world of work, but I am also
more confident about my own abilities.
PHRASES
*my fellow graduating students
launch me into a whole new world
carve out a career for myself
X
to succeed in getting a job,position or life
that you want
She carved out a successful career in the
film industry.
hold my certificate against my breast
before I knew it
a curtain had come down on my university
life
in a flash
(quick as a flash)