Introduction The study analyses the stylistic features in the “Declaration of Conscience” by Margaret Chase Smith based on the characterized language of the public speech English. The sample is a typical political speech which possesses many stylistic features of public speech. By analyzing the stylistic effect of the sample‚ the paper also explain the function of the stylistic features. Background Margaret Chase Smith (December 14‚ 1897–May 29‚ 1995) was a Republican Senator from Maine‚ and one
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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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Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary PLAN 1. Stylistic classification of the English language vocabulary. Classification criteria 2. Standard English vocabulary and its constituents. Neutral words. 3. Specific literary vocabulary. Terms‚ poetic and archaic words‚ obsolete and obsolescent words‚ literary coinages and neologisms‚ foreignisms and barbarisms 4. Specific colloquial vocabulary. Professionalisms‚ jargon and slang‚ vulgarisms and nonce-words‚ dialectisms. LITERATURE Galperin
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papers of the Pickwick club (Dickens) ” belongs to…style: alliteration The sentence “The camp‚ the pulpit and the low For rich man’s sons are free” The sentence “The cock is covering‚ the stream is flowing ” belongs to…style: parallelism The stylistic device in the sentence "There was a town down there‚ as flat as a flannel- The word-combinations “peopled desert‚ populous solitude‚ proud humility ” to…style : zeugma What is slang word?
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FUNCTIONAL STYLISTICS Functional stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies functional varieties of the literary language determined by specific spheres and aims of communication. In modern society every person constantly finds himself in regularly recurring situations typical of the given culture‚ in which he has to play a definite social role‚ i.e. to behave according to norms accepted in the given society for such situations. One of the manifestations of a social role of
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Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis Of Richard Matheson`s story « BORN OF MAN AND WOMAN » The author of the story under discussion is Richard Matheson‚ an American author and screenwriter‚ primarily in the fantasy‚ horror‚ and science fiction genres. “Born of Man and Woman”‚ a 1950 short story by Richard Matheson‚ is about a young child‚ born an ugly creature‚ who is kept chained in the basement by its parents and frequently beaten. The key of the story is horrific‚ since the author depicts terrifying
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Stylistic Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Speech Abstract Higher level English learners always pay attention to English public speech‚ especially those inaugural speeches. They take them as fine literary efforts and good analysis material. This paper tries to give an analysis of Obama’s inaugural speech from stylistic perspective‚ in order to help to better appreciate Obama’s presentation skills. Keywords: stylistics‚ syntactic‚ lexics‚ rhetoric Barack Hussein Obama was elected to be the forty-fourth
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The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. I．Abstract: When I read it i think‚ all things are related to other things‚ interconnected‚ so that nothing stands alone. The objects depend upon each other to provide this vivid scene‚ alone they are commonplace‚ together they speak volumes. I think of the poem as a painting‚ by a modern artist‚ where choice of colour and shape and texture together
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The Romantic poet Percy Shelley once wrote‚ “Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world‚ and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” Both the Romantic and the Victorian periods of poetry followed Shelley’s vision of poetry as they exposed their respective societal issues. Romantic period lasted from1785 to 1830‚ a time in which England moved from an agrarian to industrial country and overall nationalistic ideals threatened the individuality of the poets and artists
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Student number: 12056010 A Stylistic Analysis of « the lost baby poem » by Lucille Clifton In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself. In this poem Lucille Clifton is telling the experience she had when she had an
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