MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY TRẢN THỊ ĐINH TRANG RHETORICAL DEVICES IN ENGLISH POEMS FOR CHILDREN Field: English Linguistics Code: 8. Nguyén Thi Thu Hién BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN TRẢN THỊ ĐINH TRANG BIỆN PHÁP TU TỪ TRONG CAC BAI THO TIENG ANH CHO TRE EM Chuyên ngành: Ngôn Ngữ Anh Mã số: 8.01 Người hướng dẫn: PGS. Nguyễn Thị Thu Hiền STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP I hereby verify that this master thesis has been written by myself, and describes my own work unless otherwise acknowledged in the text. All references or sources of information have been specifically acknowledged, and are presented in the References.
Moreover, verbatim extracts also have been quoted in detail. This thesis has not been accepted in any previous application for other degree or diploma. Binh Dinh, 2019 Tran Thi Dinh Trang H ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First of all, I would like to express my deep thanks and appreciation to my supervisor, Assoc. Nguyen Thi Thu Hien, who has given me much great advice and encouragement during the time I managed to complete this thesis.
I am also indebted to her for spending her time to read my manuscripts and make the necessary changes. I would like to extend my gratitude to the lectures of this course for their valuable lectures, materials, and experiences which have contributed to the foundation of my thesis. I am very much thankful to my friends for encouraging me and providing me with needed materials My warmest thanks are given to my beloved family who always takes care of me and helps me overcome a lot of stress throughout the course as well as the study of this thesis. Il ABSTRACT Poems are a common form of language play in young children and provide interesting information about their metalinguistic awareness.
Therefore, this study deals with analyzing the use of rhetorical devices in English poems for children applying the theoretical framework of Galperin (1977) and Harris (2013). The basic methods involved in this study are the qualitative and quantitative method. After 50 poems were analyzed, the findings show that 13 rhetorical devices in three categories are used with different percentages. And, there is also a difference between the frequencies of occurrence of three types of rhetorical devices.
Phonetic rhetorical devices are significantly used more often than lexical and syntactical rhetorical devices. The rate of rhyme is the greatest in total in all rhetorical devices. Simile, which appreciably contributes to the total of the second ranking group — lexical rhetorical devices, is the second popular rhetorical devices after rhyme. The devices in the last group such as antithesis, rhetorical questions, stylistic inversion, and enumeration are quite complicated for children, so they are used with a tiny number.
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