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    The text under stylistic analysis is written by Joyce Carry. It deals with the author’s emotions and feelings towards Clare‚ Tutin’s wife‚ who lost her husband. This text is about one businessman Tutin who tell in love with his secretary and wanted a divorce. After having a conversation with his husband‚ Clare was resigned after all. She thought it would be stupid to try to hold him against his will and he’d only hate her. Then we meet an Old Mrs. Beer who was the widow of a canon. This

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    Structure…………………………………………………………………………….14 Connotational Meanings of a Word………………………………………………………………………….14 The Role of the Context in the Actualization of Meaning…………………………………………………….14 Stylistic Differentiation of the Vocabulary…………………………………………………………………..16 Literary Stratum of Words. Colloquial Words…..…………………………………………………………..16 Lexical Stylistic Devices…………………………………………………………………………………….23 Metaphor. Metonymy. Synecdoche. Play on Words. Irony. Epithet…………………………………………23 Hyperbole. Understatement. Oxymoron.

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    Introduction In this paper‚ different perspectives of the nature of poetic language will be illustrated by using a stylistic analysis of a poem‚ „Sonnet 55‟‚ written by William Shakespeare (see Appendix for full poem). In the stylistic analysis‚ the use of sound and rhythm to convey complement meaning by Shakespeare will be in focus here. Poetic function in poem Poetic language is a type of language that commonly found in poetry1. According to Jakobson (1960)‚ formalists believe poetic

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    Written by ASUMAN BİRDAL STYLISTIC ANALYSIS : “A CUP  OF  TEA” by K.Mansfield          The common view  that a  literary text is likely to be comprehended better if it is studied in parallel with stylistic analysis which emphasizes the crucial role of the linguistic features of the text   contributes much to the development  of  literary criticism. M.A.K.Halliday is one of the text linguists who sees ‘grammar’ as a network of systems of relationships which account for all the semantically relevant

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    Q: Sketch the character of Thomas Wilson. Is the name ‘lotos-eater’ appropriate to him? Ans. William Somerset Maugham’s compelling short story ‘The Lotus Eater’ paints his curious meeting with Thomas Wilson‚ the pivotal character of the story. A retired English bank manager‚ Wilson‚ who made the Italian island Capri his own abode‚ had a good deal of rumour going about him. No believer of all the tittle-tattle that went about him on the island and elsewhere‚ the author met him personally

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    The Novel Miguel Street has been variously classified as a group of short stories‚ as a series of sketches‚ and as a novel. The latter classification is supported by the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. Furthermore‚ although each chapter is dominated by a single character‚ those major characters reappear as minor characters in other chapters. At the end of the book‚ all the characters who still live on Miguel Street gather to present to the narrator

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    S. NAIPAUL’S MIGUEL STREET What is the role of the creative artist in countries such as ours? Novelist V.S Naipaul raises this question in the story of B. Wordsworth‚ one of the stories in Miguel Street‚ a 1959 book of Trini characters. "Trinidadians are more recognizably ’characters’ than people in England"‚ said Naipaul in an August ‚1958 piece in the Times Literary Supplement. The "characters" in Miguel Street’s portrait gallery include "Man Man" and "Bolo"‚ both of whom are

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    "The Luncheon" by W. Somerset is a wonderfully written story‚ but the variation by Jeffrey Archer is equally as enticing. Both narratives tell of an author who is struggling to make ends meet‚ but sees his big break at a very expensive luncheon. I like both of the stories because although they have the same plot the twists at the end make them completely different. At first I wondered how the same story could be comparable‚ let only different‚ but I was wrong. These two variation are vastly analogous

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    Mosaics were created by: COLORED GLASS Madonna refers to: THE VIRGIN MARY At one time Ravenna was an important outpost for the Byzantine Roman Empire: TRUE Pendentives are found around which of the following: HAGIA SOPHIA What did Paul the Silentiary say about Hagia’s Sophia’s dome? IT LOOKED AS IF IT WERE SUSPENDED FROM HEAVEN What does Hagia Sophia mean? HOLY WISDOM Iconoclasm refers to which of the following? DESCTRUCTION OF IMAGES Byzantine churches were mostly centrally

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    Degas’ stylistic development in representation of female subjects More than three quarters of Degas’ works‚ including his paintings‚ drawings‚ pastels‚ prints and sculptures‚ comprise of images of women. Degas‚ similarly to a scientific researcher‚ investigated the female form through a plethora of representations‚ ranging from his early and rather reserved portraits of relatives to the laundresses and cabaret singers of his Impressionist years. Moreover‚ he was even dubbed to have been obsessed

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