compares examinations with a serious contest‚ an eight-round fight‚ a final breathless sprint and even with death. All these devices leave a very vivid description of the students’ anticipating such an unpleasant inevitability as the exam. By means of the author’s language our imagination depicts a distinct and colorful picture proving the effectiveness of the stylistic devices in Gordon’s description. It’s hard to believe but suspense is even growing from one paragraph to another turning just an
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Stylistic analysis of the extract from “HARD TIMES” by Ch. Dickens. 1. The extract under consideration comes from “Hard Times” written by Charles Dickens. The author was the well-loved and prolific British author of numerous works that are now considered classics. In a whimsical and unique fashion‚ Dickens pointed out society’s flaws in terms of its blinding greed for money and its neglect of the lower classes of society. Through his books‚ we come to understand the virtues of a loving heart and
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language has become a focus of attention. In this paper‚ under the theory of modern stylistics‚ the stylistic features of cyber language and its causes were discussed from vocabulary and grammatical levels. The author has demonstrated some lexical features of cyber language with a number of examples. Then‚ in the second part‚ the grammatical features have been discussed. And the third part is about the causes of these stylistic features. 1.1 Background of the Present Study From 1990s‚ the Internet has
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Stylistics Definitions of Stylistics: • The study of style. Style has to do with making CHOICES • The study of the way an author uses words and grammar as well as other elements both within the sentence and within the text as a whole • Part of linguistics which concentrates on variation in the use of language‚ often‚ but not exclusively with attention to the most conscious and complex use of language in literature. • The study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation. -
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move into ghettos. Ghettos were sections of the city that were separate from the rest of it (Ayer 86). These ghettos were meant to be temporary homes for Jews until they were deported to concentration camps (Yeatts 122). Some ghettos would only last days or weeks‚ and some would last for years (Ghettos). The Jews were moved into the ghettos at separate times. The first ghetto was established on September 21‚ 1939 (Rice 54). The ghetto was placed in Poland (Ghettos). A very famous ghetto was the
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SEMINAR III STYLISTIC LEXICOLOGY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1. Stylistic differentiation of the English Language. a) stylistic and style meaning of the word; b) types of stylistic meaning of the word: emotional evaluative expressive. Criteria for the stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary. 2. Words which have lexico-stylistic paradigm. Words which have no lexico-stylistic paradigm. 3. Stylistic functions of literary words: poetic diction archaic words barbarisms bookish
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more Jews escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and needing a place to hide. Many people non-Jewish people didn’t hide because if they got caught they would have been killed immediately. The Warsaw Ghetto is a area closed in by a wall that all Jews are held in. The atmosphere isn’t healthy at all. People‚ mainly kids‚ are starving to death‚ homeless. In the Ghettos diseases are spreading‚ everyone is starving. Jan Zabinski meets a friend involved with the doctors that go in the Ghetto. Jan takes advantage of that
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This article is by Presley Phillips and Phillips discusses heteronormativity. Throughout the article Phillips talks about how heterosexuals never have to come out and if they would how weird it would be. This is because heterosexuality is seen as a default and normal. He even compares it to someone sitting you down and telling you they are right handed and how that just does not happen‚ because being right handed is normal. Phillips also discusses how there is even heteronormativity in the media
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The extract under the title is taken from the trilogy “The Forsyte Saga” written by the English novelist and playwright‚ winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932 John Galsworthy. Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. His most famous work is THE FORSYTE SAGA (1906-1921)‚ an English parallel to Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks (1901). Galsworthy was a representative of the literary tradition‚ which has regarded the novel as an instrument
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Rhetorical Terms/Devices Figurative language is the generic term for any artful deviation from the ordinary mode of speaking or writing. It is what makes up a writer’s style – how he or she uses language. The general thinking is that we are more likely to be persuaded by rhetoric that is interesting‚ even artful‚ rather than mundane. When John F. Kennedy said‚ “Ask not what your country can do for you‚ ask what you can do for your country” (an example of anastrophe)‚ it was more interesting –
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