Stylistics
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i. The opening lines of this passage sets the scene ─ focusing on the distance of the described setting. This is further highlighted by lexical parallelism ─ the use of prepositions: ‘about’, ‘between’ and ‘beside’, as well as by the vocabulary associated with the ways of transport: ‘motor road’ and ‘railroad’.
Also the writer has used semantic deviation ─ the use of the adverb ‘hastily’ and the verb ‘runs’ indicates movement. It is used here as personification to show the reader that the road is trying to get away from something.
Next, is the phrase ‘shrink away’, which is used to indicate how humans or animals hide away from someone or something they fear.
Although, this passage is not verse, there is phonological parallelism as rhythm and meter, because of identical phrase structure and what comes to mind is the poem, W. H. Auden’s ‘The Night mail’.
However, this is further emphasised by what the writer is trying to foreground about. He/ she uses the modifier ‘certain’ to make sure that it is this particular ‘piece of land’ and describes it as being ‘desolate’, which gives it an aura of something foreboding. ii. I notice lexical parallelism in these lines because the word ‘ashes’ has been repeated to focus the reader’s attention as to what he will be foregrounding.
Next, is the stylistic device called semantic deviation. The writer has compared the landfill of ashes to a wheat field of a farm through the use of a simile. Furthermore, it has been compared to mountainous features, an ugly landscape and a house with lit chimneys.
The writer has also created a semantic field to describe the dreary mining valley with the following words: ashes, smoke, ash grey and powdery air.
Also, there is syntactic parallelism in the following phrases: ‘where ashes grow’, ‘where ashes take’ and ‘ridges and hills’, ‘houses and chimneys’.
Finally, the writer foregrounds the gloomy and desolate lives of the miners who have also become part of the valley full of
i. The opening lines of this passage sets the scene ─ focusing on the distance of the described setting. This is further highlighted by lexical parallelism ─ the use of prepositions: ‘about’, ‘between’ and ‘beside’, as well as by the vocabulary associated with the ways of transport: ‘motor road’ and ‘railroad’.
Also the writer has used semantic deviation ─ the use of the adverb ‘hastily’ and the verb ‘runs’ indicates movement. It is used here as personification to show the reader that the road is trying to get away from something.
Next, is the phrase ‘shrink away’, which is used to indicate how humans or animals hide away from someone or something they fear.
Although, this passage is not verse, there is phonological parallelism as rhythm and meter, because of identical phrase structure and what comes to mind is the poem, W. H. Auden’s ‘The Night mail’.
However, this is further emphasised by what the writer is trying to foreground about. He/ she uses the modifier ‘certain’ to make sure that it is this particular ‘piece of land’ and describes it as being ‘desolate’, which gives it an aura of something foreboding. ii. I notice lexical parallelism in these lines because the word ‘ashes’ has been repeated to focus the reader’s attention as to what he will be foregrounding.
Next, is the stylistic device called semantic deviation. The writer has compared the landfill of ashes to a wheat field of a farm through the use of a simile. Furthermore, it has been compared to mountainous features, an ugly landscape and a house with lit chimneys.
The writer has also created a semantic field to describe the dreary mining valley with the following words: ashes, smoke, ash grey and powdery air.
Also, there is syntactic parallelism in the following phrases: ‘where ashes grow’, ‘where ashes take’ and ‘ridges and hills’, ‘houses and chimneys’.
Finally, the writer foregrounds the gloomy and desolate lives of the miners who have also become part of the valley full of