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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“To kill a mockingbird” was written by American writer Harper Lee. The book is a magnificent‚ powerful novel. It received almost unanimous critical acclaim and several awards. The book is about Tom Robinson‚ a Negro‚ who was charged with raping a white girl. This particular abstract depicts the trial. Atticus Finch‚ an experienced lawyer‚ tried to prove the innocence of the Robison. But the jury announced a verdict that Robinson was guilty. The story was told on behalf of Jean Louise
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“Zombieland” is a film where a lot of stylistic choices were made. Especially the opening scene says a lot about the film and the characters. Mise-en-scene‚ cinematography‚ editing and sound shape the film’s effect on the viewer. The film begins in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. The first shot is unbalanced to prime our expectation that something will change position. The shot is of the American flag‚ which is focused while the background is unfocused which means it indicates that the flag
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Stylistic analysis of the abstract from Charles Dickens book " Great Expectation" The novel which has been chosen for stylistic analysis belong to a prominent English novelist Charles Dickens "Great Expectation". Charles Dickens was the supporter of the peaceful reforms and he usually divided people into good and bad‚ moreover he believed that good is stronger than evil. That is why many of his heroes of his novels and especially of Great expectorations were poor‚ pity men who earned for living
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Российский университет дружбы народов Институт иностранных языков Направление: лингвистика Stylistic analysis of Chapter II The Postumous papers of the Pickwick club Charles Dickens. Булатовой Анасиасии‚ 402ЛД Москва 2009 The passage is an extract from Dickens’ novel “The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club” from the chapter II which originally
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Introduction STYLISTICS is a branch of linguistics which applies the theory and methodology of modern linguistics to the study of STYLE. It studies the use of language in specific contexts and attempts to account for the characteristics that mark the language use of individuals and social groups. Although stylistics sometimes includes investigation of spoken language‚ it is usually concerned with the examination of written language‚ particularly literary texts. The stylistic analysis of a text involves
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A Stylistic Analysis on the Nightingale and the Rose Abstract Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose‚ similar to other Oscar Wilde’s short stories‚ is written in an aesthetic voice. Throughout the story‚ Oscar Wilde employs various stylistic devices for the expression of aesthetic concept. In order to show how Oscar Wilde engross readers in this incredible story through stylistics analysis‚ this paper firstly presents an overview of stylistics based on the textbook English Stylistics
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Language through Poetry: A Stylistic Analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To ---“ A Stylistic Paper Presented to The Faculty of the Department of English Institute of Arts and Sciences Far Eastern University Manila In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirement for the Course Eng C 31—Introduction to Stylistics Osabel‚ Julla C. Panis‚ Kimberly Nicole S. October‚ 2012 I. Reaction and it’s effects on you II. Summary of the Text Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To ---“ is
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A stylistic analysis of “The lady or the tiger? “ (200606702 赵颖秋) 1.Abstract: This paper is going to make out a brief analysis on the text The lady or the tiger?. It is written by the American writer Frank Richard Stockton. A story happen before time about a handsome young men having done a crime for loving the daughter of a semi-barbaric king and he would be judged by the justic system created by the king whether he is innocent or not. The analysis
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POEM TITLED “GOING” The author of the poem “Going” had a specific message that he intended to set across to his readers. To do this‚ the author used a number of stylistic elements that include foregrounding‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ diction‚ synthetic parallelism and structure among others. This essay intends to give a brief stylistic analysis of the poem and describe how these devices have affected the meaning of the poem. Basically the poem “Going” according to the essay is about a new era that is coming
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