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Haas, Kay Parks – English Journal, 2011
The author has always had an appreciation of language--its rhythms, sounds, wordplay, dialects, usage variations, and powers to manipulate. Reflecting on how she came to this appreciation, she remembers her father reciting poems to her when she was a little girl. She was enthralled by the rhythm, the rhyme, and the sounds of the words--both…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Language Rhythm, Language Usage, Language Variation