Text Analysis Ragtime I am going to tell you about an extract from E.L. Doctorow’s novel “Ragtime”. In the 1920’s Ragtime was a form of music‚ song and dance of black US origin. We can distinctly see the structure of the text: its exposition‚ the story‚ climax and denouement. In the exposition a Negro man who was looking for a young woman named Sarah is described. He was driving along the street in a new car which was shining and gleaming trying to find the needed address. He was dressed
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Vlasenko Anna Stylistic analysis of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was an American author‚ poet‚ editor and literary critic‚ considered part of the American Romantic Movement. He was born on January 19‚ 1809‚ in Boston‚ Massachusetts. Poe’s parents died before he was three‚ and he was raised by an uncle and aunt. He published "Tamerlane and Other Poems" at 18‚ then became a magazine editor and writer in several eastern cities‚ contributing poems‚ stories and literary
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A Tentative Stylistic Analysis of the Poem I Am Nobody！ Who are you？ Course: English Stylistics and Rhetoric Lecturer: Zhang Xuhong Credit: 2 Time of Assigned: 28/11/2013 Time of Submission: 19/12/2013 Student Number: 2010010107 Name: Tian Ye Class: (Grade 2010) Class 1 English Department‚ Harbin Normal University A Tentative Stylistic Analysis of the Poem I Am Nobody！ Who are you？ Abstract: This essay is intended as a tentative analysis of Emily Dickinson’s
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Write an essay that discusses how the study of stylistics/language in literature can help improve one’s English language. (1500-2000 words) To answer the question of how stylistics improves one’s English language is to understand the question itself. The word ‘improves’ in the question entails that the person or student already has at least a basic knowledge and understanding of the English Language and he/she wants to make that knowledge better. There are many disciplines that learners of the English
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W.S. Maugham’s stories make exciting reading and give food for reflection The writer is a great master of ironic style. By using a biased 1st person narrator the author pretends to praise and justify what in fact he exposes and condemns. Thus the writer forces the reader to see through this pretence and make his/her own conclusions as to the purport of the work. The story "The Escape" is a fair example of Maugham’s ironic style. The basic theme of the story is marriage in bourgeois society‚ relations
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Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies Stylistic Analysis of Barrack Obama´s Presidential Victory Speech Iveta Vondráková Nitra 2012 Content Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 3 1 Basic characteristics .................................................................................................... 4 1.1 References from the
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International Journal of English Studies UMVERSITV OF MURCIA http://revistas.um.es/ijes The Art of Balance: A Corpus-assisted Stylistic Analysis of Woolfian Parallelism in To the Lighthouse MINGZHU ZHAO Minzu University of China Received: 5 February 2012 / Accepted: 6 July 2012 ABSTRACT This study has a two-fold objective: 1) to examine the density and variety of parallelism in Virginia Woolfs landmark novel To the Lighthouse through a sample-based comparison between this novel and other representative
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Lynda Hurst and Allan C. Hutchinson both have different thoughts about the topic of surrogates. Their articles consist of stylistic techniques that are used to attract readers from two dissimilar audiences: Lynda ’s audience is directed towards the average person‚ where as Allan ’s audience targets a more higher educated reader. Both authors use different types of diction‚ structure and reasoning to capture their intended audiences. Lynda and Allan both use two distinct choices of words in order
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Roosting" is one of the many poems published by Ted Hughes during his literary career dealing with animal and nature. In this poem we have a Hawk who thinks that everything in nature is inferior to him and he will allow no change in his life. The stylistic devices used by Hughes make this poem harsh and dynamic showing us an aggressive‚ unsentimental and gloomy image of the Hawk and at the same time realistic‚ which help to mirror the character of the Hawk. The poem is written in six regular stanzas
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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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