“The Luncheon” Jeffrey Archer She waved at me across a crowded room at the St. Regis Hotel in New York. I waved back‚ realizing I knew the face but unable to place it. She squeezed past waiters and guests and had reached me before I had the chance to ask anyone who she was. I racked that section of my brain that is meant to store people‚ but it transmitted no reply. I realized I would have to resort to the old party trick of carefully worded questions until her answers jogged my memory. “How are
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The text I’m going to analyse represents a short-story‚ entitled "THE LUNCHEON"‚ written by a prominent‚ English novelist‚ short-story writer‚ playwright and essayist Somerset Maugham. First of all I’d like to say some words about the title of the text "The Luncheon". The title of the text is rather ironical. If we consult a dictionary‚ we can find out that the word "luncheon" means a "light snack"‚ but as we can see hereinafter a light snack turns to be an abundant and expensive meal. The text
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IRONY IN THE LUNCHEON‚ THE ESCAPE Two short stories by William Somerset Maugham‚ The escape and The luncheon‚ both describes grieving experience of men towards women. The narrator of the former recites how his friend‚ Roger Charing‚ tries to get rid of a woman‚ Ruth Barlow. The author of the later reflects his own experience with a woman using her well-laid traps to make him fulfill her luxurious demands. Since these events are anything but pleasant and memorable‚ the author expresses his severe
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It was 5 minutes into our Hero’s Luncheon at the Gold Coast Casino and the speaker was honoring Tim Szymanski for his lifetime of work to keep Southern Nevada safe‚ when… the fire alarms went off… I was scheduled to give a 45-minute speech I had spent months working on – taking an 8-hour course down to a 45-minute review was tough enough‚ but when I arrived‚ I asked the program coordinators where the educational programs were to be held – her response was‚ what educational programs? She finally
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Introduction…………………………………………………………………………3-7 Chapter 1. Stylistic peculiarities of D.H. Lawrence and H.W. Longfellow’s poetry…………………………………………………………………….7 1.1. The use of polysemanticism of the word in combination with repetition in poems by D.H. Lawrence and H.W. Longfellow………..7-12 1.2. Lingvo-stylistic potential of D.H. Lawrence’s “Don’ts”…………
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Doing Stylistic Analysis (or four steps to heaven) READ THROUGH THE WHOLE OF THIS PAGE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN WORK ON YOUR ANALYSIS ... FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW. Step One: Initial Guidance DO NOT DO ANYTHING BUT READ THROUGH THIS SECTION DO NOT START WRITING OR NOTE-TAKING YET! If you are offered a choice‚ DO NOT choose to analyse any text that you really think you don ’t understand! Go for something you think you can make some sense of‚ even on an initial reading. Do give the author
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Stylistic Analysis of the Article “The Diseases of Globalization” written by Jeffrey D. Sachs The text under analysis is the article called “The Diseases of Globalization”. The article was written by Jeffrey
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Kazmina J. In-41 Stylistic analysis. On the day that E.M. Forster died by A.S. Byatt. The text I would like to analyze is “On the day that E.M. Forster died” written by A.S. Byatt. Dame Antonia Susan Duffy‚ DBE‚ known as A. S. Byatt is an English novelist‚ poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008‚ The Times newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. This text is social genre because the author describe social‚ professional spheres of life with the help of such vocabulary
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The writer of ’The Luncheon’ William Somerset Maugham‚ in this short story‚relates about a lady who is an admirer of his stories. She wins the author’s favour and expresses her wish to meet him at a high class restaurant.William exposes the false motives of modest eating habits‚ of the middle classes with a touch of humour. Twenty years ago the author was living in Paris‚ when he had met a lady‚ who is an admirer of his stories. She had met him at a play and relates to him the incident during
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Stylistic Analysis on Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Background of the Poem Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese is a love poem in a sonnet form. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote this poem in secret when she was being courted by her then husband-to-be‚ Robert Browning. She wrote a series of 44 sonnets and sonnet 43 became the most famous. These series of poems were published in 1850. The poems express her intense and undying love for Robert
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