INTERPRETATION AND STYLISTIC ANALYSIS Introduction — The presented for interpretation and linguistic analysis short extract narrative is a brief part of/from the novel «...» of a (the) modern English/American writer — ..... or — The text passage under analysis is a short extract narrative from the novel «...» of a (the) modern English/American writer —.... I. Summary A summary is a clear concise orderly retelling of the contents of a passage or a text and is ordinarily about 1/3 or 1/4 as long as
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evaluative meaning. The context is arranged so that the qualifying word in irony reverses the direction of the evaluation‚ and the word positively charged is understood as a negative qualification and (much-much rarer) vice versa. Irony thus is a stylistic device in which the contextual evaluative meaning of a word is directly opposite to its dictionary meaning‚ So‚ like all other SDs‚ irony does not exist outside the context‚ which varies from the minimal - a word combination‚ as in J. Steinbeck’s "She
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Obama‚ like most presidents giving an inaugural address‚ appealed to the emotion of his audience. Although he used the same approach as Bush did‚ Obama did not necessarily appeal to the same emotion. In Obama’s speech‚ he spoke to the nation about change‚ giving them a sense of hope. Obama was speaking to a country in need of repair‚ and this man offered to lead the country through a series of changes in order to repair America’s economy‚ security‚ and overall
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The way that Alfred M. Green brings up all the struggles they have faced and the hope for the future is what really makes the speech inspirational. Green does a beautiful job of highlighting the struggles that African Americans have endured‚ but he does not focus too much on the struggles but instead brings them to the future in a more positive time. Within the second paragraph of his speech‚ Green
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“Race” James Baldwin once said‚ “I am what time‚ circumstance‚ history‚ have made of me‚ certainly‚ but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.” When the subject of race comes up‚ I feel like that quote is very meaningful. According to class lecture‚ race is an arbitrary social classification of clearly bounded categories based on skin color which corresponds to no biological reality. To be able to understand race today‚ a person should have a background on the history of race. According
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Race is a biological entity‚ but it has been proven that the concept of race can be constructed or manipulated by societies that even though since an anthropological and biological perspective the barrier between races is very clear. Ethnicity isn’t a societal concept founded by the color of skin‚ since everyone knows individuals of the identical race have variations of skin color. For example in European circles‚ Middle Easterners such as Arabs‚ Jews‚ Iranians (Indo-Europeans or Aryans); North
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Bradley Myron 8/15/15 Summer Assignment Mark Antony Speech Analysis In Mark Antony’s funeral speech for Caesar‚ we can find one of Shakespeare’s finest examples of rhetorical work. The speech itself could serve as a thematic synopsis to the play Julius Caesar. Perhaps more than any other of Shakespeare’s works‚ Julius Caesar is a play that relies on rhetoric—both as the art of persuasion and as an artifice used to veil intent. Already distrusted by the conspirators for his friendship with Caesar
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What is meant by style and stylistics? Style is concerned with the artful expression of idea and stylistics is the bridge that links the idea of style to the analysis of literary texts through the tool of linguistics. The 19th century‚ that witnessed evolution in the field of biography‚ historiography‚ anthropology and others‚ could not remain unattached to immutable linguistic and stylistic norms in literature. Linguistic study was esoteric in the beginning and severely criticized as‚ "pretension
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The scheme of stylistic analysis 1. Speak of the author in brief: • the facts of his biography relevant for his creative activities; • the epoch (historical and social background); • the literary trend he belongs to; • the main literary pieces (works). 2. Give a summary of the extract (or the story) under consideration (the gist; the content of a story in a nutshell). 3. State the problem tackled by the author. 4. Formulate the main idea conveyed by the author
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In George W. Bush’s Columbia Speech the speaker uses tone and a pathos appeal to accomplish in soothing the country after a terrible accident. The president’s tone throughout his speech is very somber and very sad for the majority of the speech. “Our entire nation grieves with you. And those you loved will have the respect and gratitude of this country.” He is very sad that the astronauts on the Columbia died. The president also appeals the nation’s pathos ideals by taking verses out of the bible
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