Gettysburg Address after reading and analyzing the speech. Though Abraham was not the official and featured orator in that ceremony‚ the 273-word is remembered as one of the most famous speeches in the American History. The speech contained some stylistic devices such as Asyndeton and repetition. The elimination of conjunction made the speech look more effective and dramatic by speeding up its pace and rhythm. The Asyndeton was also used in the speech to emphasize the dram or the gravity of his topic
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Baroque – There were two key stylistic traits of Baroque art. The first of these traits was to give the paintings a sense of grandeur or sensuous richness. The other key stylistic trait was to have a strong emotional content. Other stylistic traits are naturalism and classicism but these are not key traits like a sense of grandeur and emotion. The Baroque painters wanted to evoke emotional feelings in the people viewing their work. And they wanted it to be dramatic. Baroque took place from around
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fish and how these feelings change. At first‚ Santiago was glad he hooked the fish‚ then he felt sorry for the fish‚ and finally he felt guilty for going out so far. He describes Santiago’s views by using many different stylistic elements such as diction and tone. The first stylistic element that Hemingway uses to show Santiago’s emotions for the fish is diction. Hemingway accomplishes this through the use of opposite words. "Aren’t they lovely? Eat them good now and then there is the tuna. Hard
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In Literature The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. W. Somerset Maugham (Quotes about Poetry-Education Oasis) Poetry is the breath and soul of the literature. This magical profusion of thought and feeling-the most ancient form of expressive arts not only depicts the changing trends of time but in its very depiction
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period of 15th art history. So I choose and want to compare and contrast the Kristios Boy from ancient Greece and Lamentation from Byzantium; I will analyze the stylistic‚ cultural‚ the subjects matter and the characteristics. And now I want to talk about the Kritios Boy from Ancient Greece first and also talk about the key stylistic characteristic of period style. There were some ideas from Egypt and Mesopotamia borrowed by Greeks‚ but a part of Greek innovations about arts made
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and its significance…………………9 1. 3. Aestheticism in the novel …………………………………………………...10 Part 2. Lexical and syntactical stylistic devices used in the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by O. Wild…………………………………………………………14 2.1. Phonetic stylistic devices……………………………………………………..14 2.2. Lexical expressive means and stylistic devices………………………………15 2.3. Syntactical expressive means and stylistic devices………………………….20 Conclusions……………………………………………………………………….25 List of references………………………………………………………………….26 Introduction
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the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. 4. Conclusion As we have analyzed above‚ stylistic devices are frequently used in the discourse of literary works especially in speech‚ to achieve certain specific purposes. Thus making the style of a speech somewhat particular to the others. Generally speaking‚ a speech may have the following stylistic characteristics: To begin with‚ it must be very persuasive. Thus the sentence patterns are very well-organized‚ with repetitions
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ENG4U1 Seminar Essays : Thought and Style Mary Meigs Essay Thought Purpose ‚ Audience & Point of View • The purpose of this essay was to convey to the reader that tales of the old are all feminist. The author uses three main points throughout the essay: Eve’s apples‚ Pandora’s Box‚ and Bluebeard’s wives. • The target audience of this essay was somebody who understood the tales‚ because the author doesn’t retell them throughout the essay. • This essay is written in a first person point of view
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Proverbs are wise sayings that address the heart of the discourse in any given context‚ truthfully and objectively. In Africa and in Nigerian cultures especially‚ they are considered the reliable horses‚ which convey meanings to their destinations or hearts of the listeners. This study investigates aspects of the meaning of proverbs in the work of a Nigerian author‚ Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. It is contended that meanings of Nigerian proverbs can be worked out within the semantic‚ referential‚ ideational
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are hungry” in sentence 2 of paragraph 3. 10. Compare the probable rhetorical effect of paragraph 4 at the time it was written (1854—pre-Civil War‚ pre-technological communication) with its effect today. 11. Sometimes even the slightest stylistic feature can work effectively as a rhetorical strategy. What is the effect of the alliterative 7. What paradox does Thoreau develop concerning the railroad in paragraph 2? 8. Paragraph 3 begins with a rhetorical question. How effectively
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