Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s
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1. All Foundation Programme students (Old Syllabus 2007 & New Syllabus 2012) passed in December‚ 2012 Session are required to be registered under Executive Programme (New Syllabus 2012) only. 2. June 2013 Foundation examination will be the last examination under foundation programme (old syllabus 2007). From 2013 December attempt‚ all the foundation course students will be switched over to the New Syllabus (OMR Pattern 2012). 3. The first examination under new syllabus executive programme
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Loc Gov Borja vs COMELEC [295 SCRA 157; GR 133495‚ September 3‚ 1998] Facts: Private respondent Jose T. Capco‚ Jr. was elected vice-mayor of Pateros on January 18‚ 1988 for a term ending June 30‚ 1992. On September 2‚ 1989‚ he became mayor‚ by operation of law‚ upon the death of the incumbent‚ Cesar Borja. For the next two succeeding elections in 1992 and 1995‚ he was again re-elected as Mayor. On March 27‚ 1998‚ private respondent Capco filed a certificate of candidacy for mayor
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Doctor Who (BBC 1‚ 1963-1989‚ 2005 -) is a BBC produced programme created in the early 1960s when Sydney Newman - the head of BBC’s drama - was brought over from ABC. The passion for science fiction that was gained drove him to create many ideas‚ one of these ideas was a teatime serial called Doctor Who. ‘The Daleks’ (Christopher Barry‚ 1963) and ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Toby Haynes‚ 2010) are the two most important in relation to the discussion to be made in relation to Doctor Who and give the best
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Subject : Drama B Writer : Henrik Johan Ibsen Genre : Realistic Modern Drama Name of the Work / Play : A Doll’s House ( 1897 ) in three acts Characters : Major Characters / Minor Characters Nora Helmer ( wife of Torvald Helmer ‚mother of three children ) Torvald Helmer( husband of Nora Helmer ‚ a lawyer ‚father of three children ) Dr. Rank ( doctor ‚friend of Nora & Torvald Helmer‚ confidant ‚commentator ) Mrs. Kristine Linde ( old friend of Nora Helmer ) Nils Krogstad ( barrister
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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
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Ivy Gwin Hensley English II Honors / 4th period 26 January 2017 Leaving The Yellow House Saul Bellow wrote the short story Leaving the Yellow House. The main character is a seventy-two year old woman named Harriet Simmons Waggoner. Harriet is known as Hattie throughout the story. The setting of this story takes place in Sego Desert Lake‚ Utah. Very few people live here‚ and according to Hattie there are only six white people that live there. Her neighbors were the Rolfe?s‚ Wicks‚ Pace‚ and a widow
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3. Stylistic Analysis As long as a language is produced from a human being‚ it inevitably reflects its speaker’s background (e.g.‚ their birth‚ their generation‚ or their social class). Even if they use the same language such as English‚ Asians may hardly speak or write in the way British do. That being so‚ given the exceptional roots of Ishiguro as an English-language writer‚ it seems fairly understandable for many critics to assume that this idiosyncrasy (i.e.‚ some remnants of Japan)‚ more or
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Joan Didion utilizes stylistic elements such as imagery‚ diction‚ and detail throughout each of the three parts of the passage in order to convey her fear and awe of the horrendous and aberrant Santa Ana winds‚ simultaneously revealing the primal and often times violent ways man reacts to external stimuli and correcting the mistaken belief that he is not subject to the whims of nature. Didion paints through her writing the true nature of the winds. These phenomena are first introduced through words
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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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