CAN-CAN The text is head-lined CAN-CAN. The author of the text is Arturo Vivante. ARTURO VIVANTE was born in Rome and grew up in Italy‚ England‚ and Canada. He earned a medical doctorate from Rome University in 1949‚ but left his medical practice in the mid-1950s when his short stories began to be published. Now he lives in the United States where he has been a fuul-time writer for over thirty years. He has published two novels “A googly babe” (1951) and “Doctor Giovanni” (1969)‚ as well
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claim that stylistic is a comparatively new branch of linguistics‚ The term stylistics really came into existence not too long ago. Problems of stylistic research 3. the number of functional styles The authors of handbooks on different languages propose systems of styles based on a broad subdivision of all styles into 2 classes literary and colloquial and their varieties. These generally include from three to five functional styles. Galperins system of styles 1. Belles-lettres style (poetry‚ emotive
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present-day English Raymond Hickey Essen University 1 Introduction For several centuries English has been well known for its many cases of conversion‚ for instance it is used very frequently by Shakespeare‚ almost as a stylistic device of his. And to this day it has remained a prominent feature of the language. The standard definition of conversion (Bauer 1988: 90-2; Spencer 1991: 20) is a change in word-class without any alteration in form‚ i.e. zero-derivation (Cruse
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interesting questions delivered by means of a unique style. Do u agree with this assesment of her poetry? Your answer should focus on both themes and stylistic features . Support your points with the aid of suitable reference to the poems you have studied. *Good Luck ;)* Elizabeth Bishop poses interesting questions delivered by means of a unique style. Do u agree with this assesment of her poetry? Your answer should focus on both themes and stylistic features . Support your points with the aid of suitable
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PART I INTRODUCTION I. GENERAL NOTES ON STYLE AND STYLISTICS Stylistics‚ sometimes called l i n g u o - s t y 1 i s t i c s‚ is a branch of general linguistics. It has now been more or less definitely outlined. It deals mainly with two interdependent tasks: a) the investi-gation of the inventory of special language media which by their ontol-ogical features secure the desirable effect of the utterance and b) certain types of texts (discourse) which due to the
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ENC1101 March 1‚ 2008 Stylistic Prose Techniques A Tale of Two Cities In the novel‚ “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens‚ the writer uses multiple styles and techniques. Some of the different styles and techniques used are point of view‚ foreshadowing‚ and symbols. Putting all these stylistic and techniques together can create a great story. Some may find this to be a difficult reading to understand‚ but with every passage there is a meaning behind it. Point of view is the position a
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Simile - a kind of comparison in which two things are com¬pared be¬cause they have something in common though they are in all other respects different. The imagina¬tive compa¬rison is explicitly made with the help of like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. This simile suggests /implies / illustrates that ... Metaphor - a comparison between two things which are basically quite different without using the words like or as. While a simile only says that one thing is
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Stylistics Lecture 2 Source: Halliday: ? Objectives You should be able to: 1. Define of the term stylistics 2. Explain the task of the stylistician 3. Explain the different phases of stylistic analysis 4. Explain what is involved in stylistic analysis. 5. Explain the difference between stylistics and discourse analysis Stylistics • Definition: • Halliday defines a stylistician as someone who can comprehend literary texts through a comprehension of their language structures. literary texts
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LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES Metaphor Genuine metaphors Trite(dead) metaphors Metonymy Metonymy Metonymy is the substitution of one word for another with which it is associated: ‘The White House said…’ (the American government) ; the press (newspapers and magazines); the cradle(infancy‚ place of origin);the grave(death); The hall applauded; The marble spoke; The kettle is boiling; I am fond of Agatha Christie; We didn’t speak because there were ears all around us; He was about a sentence away from
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for the 4th year students COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS of Text 1 “Doctor in the House” by R.Gordon Developed and compiled by Zhikhareva N.A.‚ Bezhinar I.S. Assignments in Interpretation I. Plot and Plot structure Read more: (Borisova – pp.10-16) Study Supplement 2 and answer the following questions: 1. What type of conflict is the
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