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When we look closely at the language of a literary text, particularly when approaching unseen questions, we tend to focus on things like figures of speech and lexical items such as nouns, verbs and adjectives — that is, the elements that are directly concerned with conveying meaning. We may overlook grammatical items like ‘if’ or ‘this’ or ‘beside’ which have little meaning in themselves, but which provide the necessary glue that holds the other words together and enables them to make sense. Yet words like these often play an important part in the creation of particular literary effects.
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