Exercise 1 The Things They Carried EXCERPT ① 1. How is the term common secret typical of the phrasing of this whole passage? How is run or freeze or hide also typical of the excerpt’s phrasing? In which sentences does O’Brien’s phrasing seem especially clear‚ direct‚ and simple‚ and why is such phrasing so effective? How would you describe the tone of this passage? How might the tone easily have been quite different? For instance‚ how could it have been highly emotional and melodramatic? Why
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All these devices leave a very vivid description of the students’ anticipating such an unpleasant inevitability as the exam. By means of the author’s language our imagination depicts a distinct and colorful picture proving the effectiveness of the stylistic devices in Gordon’s description. It’s hard to believe but suspense is even growing from one paragraph to another turning just an investigation of a man’s knowledge into judgment day. And to my mind this allusion is chosen nonrandom but to emphasize
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Rhetorical Strategies and Stylistic Devices Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex. “GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE‚ COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN‚ AND WISDOM ALWAYS TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE.” (Slaughter House-Five‚60) Allusion- a brief and indirect reference to a person‚ place‚ thing or idea of historical‚ cultural‚ literary or political significance. Ex. “Canst thou draw
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List all of the noun phrases in the passage‚ including the pronouns. After you have studied the list write an essay on how the noun phrases contribute to the text. How do they relate to what is being described in the extract? In Lindsey Davis’s Ode to a Banker‚ there are many uses of the noun phrase. The noun phrase is a phrase that contains a noun as well as other constituents (Yule 2010‚ p291). The noun can stand on its own as the noun phrase or include the use of articles and modifiers to enhance
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The extract under the title is taken from the trilogy “The Forsyte Saga” written by the English novelist and playwright‚ winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932 John Galsworthy. Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. His most famous work is THE FORSYTE SAGA (1906-1921)‚ an English parallel to Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks (1901). Galsworthy was a representative of the literary tradition‚ which has regarded the novel as an instrument
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Stylistic Features Wuthering Heights‚ the creation of Emily Jane Bronte‚ depicts not a fantasy realm or the depths of hell. The novel focuses on two main character’s battle with the restrictions of Victorian Society. Wuthering Heights is in the same ethical and moral tradition as the other great Victorian novels. Wuthering Heights was written and published ten years after Victoria’s accession and almost at the end of a decade in which fiction for the first time in its history
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acquire our first words. When we speak‚ we are granted a multitude of courses for grammar and word choice. As interlocutors‚ we are constantly and actively (consciously and unconsciously) using linguistic resources to exercise stylistic variation in our speech. (Jose‚ B. Stylistic Variation‚ 2011) Consider some examples of variation. In the English language‚ there are dozens of words to describe happiness: {joy‚ jubilance‚ beatitude}. Similarly‚ there are many words analogous with the meaning of the
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MEANING FROM A STYLISTIC POINT OF VIEW In stylistics meaning assumes prime importance. Because meaning is applied not only to words‚ word-combinations‚ sentences but also to the manner of expression. At certain moment meaning was excluded from observation in language science because it was considered an extra-linguistic category. The term “semantic invariant” was proposed as a substitute for meaning by R. Jakobson. The main problem of meaning which deals with is the interrelation between
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Written by ASUMAN BİRDAL STYLISTIC ANALYSIS : “A CUP OF TEA” by K.Mansfield The common view that a literary text is likely to be comprehended better if it is studied in parallel with stylistic analysis which emphasizes the crucial role of the linguistic features of the text contributes much to the development of literary criticism. M.A.K.Halliday is one of the text linguists who sees ‘grammar’ as a network of systems of relationships which account for all the semantically relevant
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of Studies of Stylistics and Rhetoric LIYao Abstract: Stylistics is a scientific study of style. It is a new branch of linguistics. Rhetoric is the art or science of the communication in words. In general‚ stylistics is a discipline that studies the ways in which language is used; it is a discipline that studies the styles of language in use. However‚ rhetoric is the scientific study of how language could be employed expressively and effectively in modern times. Studying stylistics and rhetoric
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