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Some of the themes in Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel include male chauvinism, marriage and love, deceit, modernity versus tradition, and, virility...

Therefore, the title is suggestive of two of the play's main characters and their individual features, and of the wily lion's subtle conquest of the jewel as a lion would a prey. The title no doubt resonates with inner struggle in the play.

Some of the figures of speech employed in The Lion and the Jewel are antonomasia, periphrasis, personification, simile, metaphor, invective, hyperbole, aphorism, pleonasm, allusion, asteismus, rhetorical question, and alliteration.

Blackass tells a story of abrupt transformations, racial discrimination, exploitation, the working of the high classed society, and the intrusive power of social media.

Clausal elements are linguistic items that make up the clause and allow for the breakdown of a clause into “syntactic elements”.

Both coordination and subordination involve the linking of units; however while the two units being linked in coordination are equal and at the same level, in subordination, one of the units being linked is subordinated to the other.

Commands or imperatives are sentences primarily used to instruct someone to do (or not to do) something.

To distinguish between direct and indirect objects, you should subject the sentence to a TO or FOR transformation.

A nominal group (also known as noun phrase) is a group that has a noun or a noun equivalent as its headword. The structure of a nominal group is usually “(M) H (Q)”. “M” stands for modifier, “H” for headword and “Q” for qualifier. The items in bracket are optional. Besides, the structure is unidirectional (“M” comes before “H” and “H” before “Q”).

There are three main subtypes of “Yes/No Questions” distinguished according to the different ways they are formed from the corresponding statements.

Word formation is the creation of new words and it involves processes such as derivation, conversion, blending, compounding, clipping, acronyms, abbreviations, eponyms, clipping, nonce, borrowing and calquing.

Unexpected Joy at Dawn has been likened to a historical novel because it is established on historical events: the first expulsion in 1969 which separated Nii Tackie from Mama Orojo and the second expulsion in 1984 which united the two siblings.

The land is a giant whale that swallows the sinker, with hook, line and bait aborting dreams of a good catch ...

The poet persona tries to make us see another aspect of the people supposedly called “terrorist” and “hostile militant”. Some of these are just “freedom fighter” and “guerrilla warrior”. Not necessarily the bad names they are called. Children, martyrs enshrouded in cloaks of humanity — not monsters as they are often portrayed by the press.