The cohesion of foregrounding in gwendolyn brook's ''Michael is afraid of the storm ''and '' Martin Luther King jr

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This paper deals with cohesion of foregrounding in of foregrounding in Gwendolyn Brook's ''Michael is Afraid of the Storm'' and ''Martin Luther King Jr.

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This linguistic phenomenon is inevitable: it almost exists in every literary text.

Foregrounding can be achieved by two ways either deviating from the norm or confining one' self to the same norm.

Gwendolyn Brook is a well- known Black African poet.

The paper studies two poems written by Brook: ''Michael is Afraid of the Storm'' and ''Martin Luther King Jr.

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The poems are rich in foregrounding features: parallelism, similes, metaphors and alliteration.

At the same time, they have many cohesive devices such as reference, and conjunctions.