All stylistic means of the English languages can be divided into expressive means (EM) and stylistic devices (SD). “The expressive means of a language are those phonetic‚ morphological‚ word building‚ lexical‚ preseological or syntactical forms which exist in language as-a-system for the purpose of logical and various dictionaries. Among lexical EM we must mention words with emotive meanings‚ interjections‚ polysemantic words‚ vulgar words‚ slang etc. The fact that polysemantic words retain
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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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that is theoretically maintained unchanged In recent years considerable attention has been paid to stylistic variation in linguistic description. Variation which used to be described as free has lately been described as fitting within identifiable linguistic or social parameters. Studying stylistic variation is the main focus of this project which is based on the observation that language variation depends not only on the social
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Doing Stylistic Analysis (or four steps to heaven) READ THROUGH THE WHOLE OF THIS PAGE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN WORK ON YOUR ANALYSIS ... FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW. Step One: Initial Guidance DO NOT DO ANYTHING BUT READ THROUGH THIS SECTION DO NOT START WRITING OR NOTE-TAKING YET! If you are offered a choice‚ DO NOT choose to analyse any text that you really think you don ’t understand! Go for something you think you can make some sense of‚ even on an initial reading. Do give the author
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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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and quote approach is not enough to argue for a particular view of text‚ ∵ logical gaps often exists ∵ intuition is not enough 6. Stylisticians also use the same kind of approach on non-literary texts. 7. Another important strand in developing Stylistics: The Russian Formalist‚ (Moscow) - IA Richard the first stylisticians‚ but their work
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Stylistic Analysis on Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Background of the Poem Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese is a love poem in a sonnet form. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote this poem in secret when she was being courted by her then husband-to-be‚ Robert Browning. She wrote a series of 44 sonnets and sonnet 43 became the most famous. These series of poems were published in 1850. The poems express her intense and undying love for Robert
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Elvis is a half-hour comedy about the personal and professional highs and lows of a neurotic drummer and his rock band‚ as they struggle to make it in Bushwick‚ Brooklyn. COMMENTS The logline and the brief synopsis clearly state the premise of the show. Based on the logline and the synopsis‚ it has an appealing concept. One possible tweak: Elvis is a half-hour comedy about the personal and professional highs and lows of a drummer and his band… (vs. just the band). Find the best and most exciting
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Chuck Berry‚ place impeding obstacles in their way due to racial inequalities prevalent during the 1950s‚ which Elvis Presley did not have to face. These inequalities skyrocketed Presley’s career to help him obtain the title of King of rock n roll opposed to Chuck Berry or any other African American musician. Chuck Berry was born on October 18‚ 1926‚ in St. Louis to a
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Rob Hill Professor Terry Thuemling WP121G 5 November 2004 Behind the Walls of the Ghetto Commenting on the famed Los Angeles ghetto in which he grew up‚ gangster rapper Ice Cube asserts‚ "If you ain ’t never been to the ghetto‚ don ’t ever come to the ghetto" (Cube‚ Ghetto Vet). But why are American ghettos filled with so much violence‚ drugs‚ and inopportunity? In John Singleton ’s powerful drama Boyz N the Hood the harsh reality of youths growing up in South Central Los Angeles‚ a place
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