Introduction For my essay I am going to adopt a formalist approach to Wordsworth’s ‘The Thorn’. In particular I will be looking into the views of the Russian formalists such as Victor Shlovsky and Alexander Potebnya‚ and relating their thoughts to the poem. I will then be seeing how the ‘The Thorn’ relates to elements of the uncanny in its content. I will finish by including a reader response‚ where I will draw on my own thoughts of the poem. Russian formalism Russian formalism advocated a ‘scientific’
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interrelated‚ and its principal goal is to build a model for the structure of the lexicon by categorizing the types of relationships between words. The relationships include such broad classes as hyponymy‚ homonymy‚ polysemy‚ synonymy‚ antonymy as well as metonymy. HYPONYMY Hyponymy involves the logical relationship of entailment; sense of one word is included in (hypo ’under’) the sense of the other. It also involves the notion of class inclusion. For instance‚ the meaning of “animal” is included in the
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narrative art from the determination of an onerous plot. There is‚ in the modernist novel‚ a questioning of the conventional linear narrative‚ logical and progressive order‚ the establishing of a stable surface of reality. Frequently‚ metaphor and metonymy occupy a more prominent position than was considered normal in prose fiction. While the modernist novelists do not seem to depart from the broad categories/genres that they inherited from their
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Annotation of techniques Para 1: Inclusive language. Emphatic diction – “never” Para 2: Repetition Emphatic diction Para 3: Repetition Statistics Para 4: Inclusive language. Metonymy Para 5: Simile. Dramatic language Para 6: Dramatic pause‚ using conjunction Para 7: Emotive language. Contrast. Cliché Para 8: Dramatic pause using conjunction. Paradox Para 9: Juxtapositions of antithetical opposites (eg. war/peace‚ soldier/civilian). Universal language Para 10: Juxtapositions of antithetical
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum‚” a nameless narrator is trapped in a prison awaiting for his fate. He ultimately finds himself being put to death by a swinging pendulum‚ and narrowly escapes. In Poe’s story‚ he many gothic elements in this narrative such as‚ a frantic narrator‚ visions about a dream-like state‚ a setting that creates an atmosphere of suspense‚ and finally the use of time to illustrate the horror of death. Poe employs these elements by the use of his playbook‚ which
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awake (flowers don’t sleep /stay awake‚ people do) ASSOCIATION SYNECDOCHE: represents the whole of a thing by the name of one of its parts No useless coffin enclosed his breast (breast=part of the body) All hands to pump (hands=part of men) METONYMY: the name of an attribute of the object replaces the object itself The loyal subjects continued to support the crown (crown=king) The kettle is boiling (kettle=water) The pen is mightier than the sword (pen=writer; sword=soldier) SYNAESTHESIA:
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less detailed but serve as well to illustrate the difficulties of describing its narrative patterns. In ``Metaphor‚ Metonymy‚ and Ideology: Language and Perception in Mrs. Dalloway‚ ’ ’: Teresa
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1. Style and Stylistics. Language‚ speech and text. No one knows for sure what it is. The scope of problems stylistics is to solve‚ its very object and its tasks are open to discussion up to the present day‚ regardless of the fact that it goes back to ancient rhetoric and poetics. According to I.R. Galperin‚ the term STYLE is presumed (by various authors) to apply to the following fields of investigation: the aesthetic function of language; (reference to works of art‚ that is of poetry and
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effect. Irony: A circumstance in which there is a contra¬diction or difference between what is intended or expected to occur and what actually occurs. Metaphor: An implied comparison between one object and another that is different from it. Metonymy: A figure of speech‚ a kind of meta¬phor‚ formed when a characteristic of a thing is used to represent the whole thing. Onomatopoeia: A word whose sound sug¬gests its meaning or sense—for example sizzle‚ meow. Oxymoron: An expression in which
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How to Read Literature like a Professor Chapter 1- Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not): • Quest consists of a knight‚ a dangerous road‚ a Holy Grail‚ a dragon‚ one evil knight‚ and one princess • Quest elements: a. quester b. place to go c. stated reason to go there d. challenges & trails e. real reason to go there- never involves stated reason • Real reason for quest is always self-knowledge • “always” and “never” have very little meaning in literature Chapter 2- Nice to Eat with You:
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