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“Making dreams come true” In the article “Making dreams come true”, there is no metaphor found.
However, there are other lexical features that indicate the informality and entertainment in language, such as hyperbole and idioms.
B. Possible Effects of Linguistic Features
Each linguistic feature has effects to the article. The effects are divided to 2 parts; they are graphological feature and linguistic feature.
1. Effect of graphological features
Graphological features are related to the capitalization and punctuation in the article. From the analysis, it can be concluded that the punctuation and
capitalization are used normally.
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Figure 1: 1a. Example of paragraphs in the article “Lifting the Turin
cloud”page 60
1b. Example of paragraphs in the article “Blue Moon
rising”page 57 By reading at the figure above, it can be seen that the articles use standard
use of capitalization and punctuation. For example, capital letters are used at the
beginning of a sentence After an injury-interrupted campaign last term, not
everyone was convinced that Pirlo was right for Juventus.. Capital letters are used in the beginning of proper names like Pirlo, Montenegro, Vucinic, Madrid,
and Barcelona. The punctuation is also used according to the rules. It can be seen from the
paragraph in the figure above. Period is used at the last declarative sentence “What we are trying to do is create a similar environment and we are working
Figure 1b
Figure 1a
42 with UEFA to show it can be done.”. Other punctuations and their uses can be
seen in this sentence: “Given that three player in the first choice four-man defence – namely
Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci, and Giorgio Ciellini – are central defenders Stephan Lichsteiner is the fourth man, at right-back, the rearguard has an
intimidating look about it.” Lifting the Turin cloud page 60
In the sentence above, dash — is used to mark non-restrictive appositives.
Noun phrase in the appositive “namely Andrea Baezagli, Leonardo Bonucci, and Giorgio Chiellini” can be omitted. Commas , are used to separate names in the
sentences; those are Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci, and Giorgio Chiellini. Hyphens - is used before a compound modifier and noun it modifies in the word
“right-back”. The word “right” modifies “back”. From the analysis above, it can be concluded that capitalization and
punctuation in the articles are used normally. Punctuations are given to cut sentences and capitalizations are used to indicate the beginning of a sentence and
proper name. The standard used of graphological features above will make the reader easily understand the message in the article.
2. Effects of Lexis
