forgotten. An artist as a man apart‚ what is he? For example let’s take W. S. Maugham and his work “The moon and Sixpence” in which he wrote about Charles Strickland‚ a middle-aged English stockbroker who abandoned his family and became an artist. He was concentrated on his art. He was indifferent to love‚ friendship and kindness. His pictures fell flat on the public and recognition came to him only after death. W. S. Maugham wrote: “An artist as a man apart is alone in his world. He is shut in a tower
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Г.Б. Антрушина‚ О.В‚ Афанасьева‚ Н.Н. Морозова What Is a Word? What Is Lexicology? What’s is a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet... (W. Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet‚ Act II‚ Sc. 2) These famous lines reflect one of the fundamental problems of linguistic research: what is in a name‚ in a word? Is there any direct connection between a word and the object it represents? Could a rose have been called by "any other
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using linguistic devices in advertising texts with functional expressive features‚ stylistic devices‚ syntactic and stylistic features. The eighth chapter introduces the role of parentheses insertion as additional information. Very important advertising text in sociolinguistic coverage and phonetic expressive means and stylistic devices in the ninth chapter (Galperin`s stylistic devices‚ the definitions of stylistic devices with examples). In the chapter of tenth we consider classification of language
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parent opposite in sex to him or herself‚ and corresponding distance from others’. A great part of his life is actually controlled by this subconscious desires and passions‚ over which he has no control. The Kite by William Somerset Maugham is a study of particular psychological theories with reference to particular characters. The central theme of the story is Oedipal and it has been examined in all its ramifications. The story line is based on the primal relationship between Mrs. Beatrice
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would you be now if you had been able to?...a little smile on his still aristocratic features. ‘I’d be a verger of St. Peter’s Neville Square. “ (Last paragraph) | structure | Structure- The structure of the short story is extremely interesting. Maugham the author‚ did an excellent job of repetition when the verger‚ Albert‚ told a different person about his inability to read and write.
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subject-matter there can be no implied repeal. If‚ in a subsequent Act‚ Parliament chooses to make it plain that the earlier statute is being to some extent repealed‚ effect must be given to that intention just because it is the will of the legislature.” (per Maugham LJ in Ellen Street Estates Ltd v Minister of Health [1934]). "We should recognise a hierarchy of Acts of Parliament: as it were ’ordinary’ statutes and ’constitutional’ statutes. [...] Ordinary statutes may be impliedly repealed. Constitutional statutes
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What are Types of Stylistics? Stylistics is the study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective. As a discipline it links literary criticism and linguistics‚ but has no autonomous domain of its own. Types of Stylistics: 1. Computational Stylistics: Study of patterns formed in particular texts‚ authors‚ genres‚ periods via computational methods. Through the use of computers‚ it should be possible to achieve more accurate detection and explanation of such linguistic patterns.
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achievements‚ is what makes this book stand out in a crowd. Dahl’s exceptional sentence style and word choice advises the reader for the duration of the book. However‚ these writing strategies are not the only ways that shape the novel. William Somerset Maugham once stated‚ “There are three rules to writing a good book. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.” While this may be true‚ there are three evident rules that are modeled in Dahl’s autobiography. Being extremely descriptive‚ breathtaking moments
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The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel from British author W. Somerset Maugham. A lost girl named Kitty marries a guy named Walter Fane‚ a bacteriologist. The only reason that she marries him is so she can be married before her little sister Doris. She also had to get away from her mom. She moves to Hong Kong with her husband‚ and quickly gets bored. Kitty meets a guy named Charles Townsend who is the colonial secretary’s assistant. They start having an affair with each other. Her husband Walter finds
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The text under consideration is the short story “The Escape” written by a famous English writer Somerset Maugham. The plot of the story is quite simple‚ though interesting. The protagonist of the story is a young‚ clever‚ well-mannered man rolling in money – Roger Charing. He’s such a gentleman to his fingertips‚ that once he so graciously managed to get rid of a woman‚ that nobody even noticed. He‚ our impeccable man‚ falls in love with Ruth Barlow‚ an unfortunate woman who was twice a widow
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