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    Berry and Elvis Presley were a huge part of it. A clear difference was the Chuck Berry was African American and Elvis Presley was white‚ back in the date racism was one of the biggest concerns in the fifties. In the same way‚ both of the Rock ‘n Roll singers had the same talent their music was amazing. They also have about the same rhythm and they both play the guitar. The truth is that lives of both Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry had both noteworthy similarities and differences. Elvis Presley was born

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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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    This man’s musical style didn’t really appeal to me at first but then I took a listen to what he had to offer and I discovered quite a few songs that I like. This English singer and songwriter didn’t arrive into this world with the name Elvis Costello. He was born as Declan Patrick MacManus. His career began in the early 70s when he started to sing at some of the pubs that were part of the rock scene in London‚ England. He started gaining popularity with his first album My Aim is True which came

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    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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    Language through Poetry: A Stylistic Analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To ---“ A Stylistic Paper Presented to The Faculty of the Department of English Institute of Arts and Sciences Far Eastern University Manila In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirement for the Course Eng C 31—Introduction to Stylistics Osabel‚ Julla C. Panis‚ Kimberly Nicole S. October‚ 2012 I. Reaction and it’s effects on you II. Summary of the Text Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To ---“ is

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    ambiguity of manner. 8. Anachronism – Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time‚ esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword in an anachronism in modern warfare. 9. Anaphora – A rhetorical device in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginnings of successive phrases or sentences. Compare this to epistrophe‚ where such repetitions occur at the ends. (lesson 10. Analogy – A similarity between like features of two things‚ on which a

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    The Elvis Experiment Introduction: In this experiment we will determine how the difference in length and diameter of a blood vessel have an effect on the resistance of blood flow and how the viscosity of blood will also effect the resistance of blood flow in a blood vessel. Observation: My mom is a big Elvis fan and she always wondered how his health affected his death. Knowing that he had high cholesterol and high blood pressure I decided to do an experiment on what factors may have had an effect

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    Introduction STYLISTICS is a branch of linguistics which applies the theory and methodology of modern linguistics to the study of STYLE. It studies the use of language in specific contexts and attempts to account for the characteristics that mark the language use of individuals and social groups. Although stylistics sometimes includes investigation of spoken language‚ it is usually concerned with the examination of written language‚ particularly literary texts. The stylistic analysis of a text

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    Man in the Mine A life in the ghetto is no life at all. Especially in Molesville‚ Pennsylvania‚ a town left in the dust by modern society. Ever since I can remember my mother has been sick‚ this terrible place is the cause. With little sanitation the streets are rat infested and the poor die young. We had not had enough money‚ when my father left us‚ to afford food to live with‚ let alone go get help from a doctor. After my mother’s pregnancies she gradually became more and more sick. I thought

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    Having a role model can help you get through life. Jimi Hendrix grew up in the ghetto. His mother left his family when he was 10. Jimi Hendrix is the best guitarist ever and a good role model to look up to. Jimi Hendrix’s mother was 17 when she gave birth to him in the year 1942. Jimi Hendrix as a child was often in the care of relatives and even acquaintances. His mother had a bad relationship with his father and eventually left the family. Hendrix taught himself how to play guitar at 16 with strong

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