The text presented for analysis is an extract from the story “One Stair Up” by Campbell Nairne‚ dealing with the everyday life of average working-class family. The extract gives the readers a dynamic episode of their day-to-day experiences‚ providing them with an opportunity to observe the relationships both between the members of the family and between them and the society. Throughout the whole story we perceive the characters mostly by means of their internal monologues – implicit characterization
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FIGURES OF SPEECH: literary resources used to provide vividness‚ intensity and beauty to poetry and prose.” RESEMBLANCE METAPHOR: transfers attributes from one object to another‚ identifies. The bishop was a pillar of the church (pillar=strength : bishop= strength) He was a very serpent on my path (serpent= evil‚ danger: he=evil‚ danger) SIMILE: compares two things to clarify the meaning of one of them by using “as” or “like” to link them The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
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The text under the title “Dangerous Corner” was written by British journalist‚ novelist‚ playwright‚ and essayist – John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984). Priestley’s output was vast and varied - he wrote over one hundred novels‚ plays‚ and essay. The text under the study is a play. The society of several men and women sitting in a cosy drawing-room and idly discussing the wireless lay they have just heard is described in the plot. Initially the conversation goes around the play but gradually it approaches
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Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s
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The excerpt under analysis is taken from a play "Thursday Evening" written by Christopher Morley. He was born in 1890. He is an American author‚ received unusual recognition early in his career. Among his widely known novels are "Kitty Foyle" and "The Trojan Horse". The subject matter of the excerpt is a quarrel between Laura and Gordon‚ a married couple‚ they have to struggle through and a common mother-in-law stereotype‚ which Christopher Morley opposes the with two very likable and charming women
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* allegory: Extended metaphor in which a story is told to illustrate an important attribute of the subject * alliteration: Repetition of the first consonant sound in a phrase. * allusion: Indirect reference to another work of literature or art * anacoenosis: Posing a question to an audience‚ often with the implication that it shares a common interest with the speaker * antanaclasis: A form of pun in which a word is repeated in two different senses * anthimeria: Substitution
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Stylistic 1. General Notes on Style and Stylistics. The subject of stylistics has so far not been definitely outlined. This is due to a number of reasons.First of all there is a confusion between the terms style and stylistics. The first concept is so broad that it is hardly possible to regard it as a term. We speak of style in architecture‚ literature‚ behaviour‚ linguistics‚ dress and other fields of human activity Even in linguistics the word style is used so widely that it needs interpretation
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A figure of speech is a use of a word that diverges from its normal meaning‚[citation needed] or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it such as a metaphor‚ simile‚ or personification.[citation needed] Figures of speech often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. However‚ clarity may also suffer from their use‚ as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity between literal and figurative interpretation. A figure of speech is sometimes
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Introduction This paper is an attempt to analyse the short story The Sisters’‚ by James Joyce and to establish some of the multiple possible relations with the other stories in Dubliners. The Sisters’ is the first short story in Dubliners. If we divide the stories according to the stages in life in Dublin childhood‚ adolescence‚ adulthood and public life’ ‚ The Sisters’ belongs to the period of childhood‚ as well as An Encounter’ and Araby’. The first paragraph sets the tone not only
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From birth to death‚ we are constantly striving to find the golden rule of a successful rapport with everybody‚ the people we come across in this world. To put it simply‚ it is the relationships‚ the way in which two or more people or things are connected‚ or the state of being connected. It can be a state of being connected by blood or marriage – the emotional closeness of familial love; the way in which two or more people or groups regard and behave towards each other – the platonic love that defines
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