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Analysis Of Broken English By Amy Tan

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Finally, Tan used repetition throughout her essay to clearly reinforce her ideas as she repeats the phrase “broken English” and “fracture English” as well as “limited English” (Tan651). Tan uses these parallel phrases to clearly outline her ideas and create an effective connection among her readers. Also she clarify that her mother’s English is perfectly clear, but the only problem is her mother tongue or accent that makes her English harder for other to clearly understand. Tan repeats the “broken English” phrases in many sentences all over her essay, which set the pattern, and further reputation of this phrase emphasizes the pattern and increase the rhetorical effect of this piece. Tan emphasize on the specific word “limited” (651) by repeating
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