use of language‚ often‚ but not exclusively with attention to the most conscious and complex use of language in literature. • The study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disciplines: Linguistics Literary Criticism Stylistics Subjects: Language Literature ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Eric Blair. He was born in 1903‚ and during the Russian Revolution‚ was a part of the lower-middle class; anti-stein. Blair‚ being in the lower-middle class‚ realized how Stalin took advantage of the uneducated by corrupting Russia. In his dystopian novel Animal Farm‚ George Orwell uses character motivation and symbolism to convey his theme: education is the key to freedom. Animal Farm is a spectacular work of literature featuring secret meanings revealed in both character motivations and symbolism
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Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning
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Brand Identity Prism: Burberry According to Jean-Noel Kapferer‚ there are six aspects of the brand identity: 1) Brand Physique 2) Brand Personality 3) Brand Culture 4) Brand Relationship 5) Brand Reflection‚ and 6) Brand’s Self image The picture of the receiver‚ when it is well presented the brand has the ability to visualise as an Individual - which are mainly based on the Physique and Personality. Also‚ as stereotypical the consumer’s feedback about the brand’s personality reflects in the relationship
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Wuthering Heights Literary Criticism Essay: Marxism Emily Bronte’s Victorian novel‚ Wuthering Heights has formed four critical analysis perspectives: psychoanalytic‚ Marxist‚ feminist‚ and cultural studies. Despite these varying literary criticisms that have been contemplated by contextual documents‚ I feel that the Marxist outlook is the most valid of the four. In accordance to Marxists‚ literature itself‚ is a social establishment that has a distinct ideological function‚ based on the background
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collection of tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ was written in Middle English at the end of the 14th century (Encyclopaedia Britannica‚ 2011). It is considered to be the best work of literature in English in the Middle Ages (Johnston‚ 1998). Chaucer uses literary devices as no one had ever done. In addition‚ he chose to use English instead of Latin. This masterpiece is structured in a similar way as Bocaccio’s Decameron. The tales are organized within a frame narrative (Encyclopaedia Britannica‚ 2011) explained
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In the science fiction/ dystopian novel of “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury‚ the citizens‚ as well as the government‚ shunned books. However‚ in place of the books is the four- walled televisor. The televisor (or television) is where the broad predominance of people watched a program called “the families”. While visiting Montag‚ Captain Beatty informs the reader about the downfall of the book. During “The Hearth and the Salamander"‚ Captain Beatty explained to us how because of the population growth
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"First day of school!!‚" I shouted with nervous excitement as I jumped out the car to attend my first day at an American school. My anxiety was building high everyone said this would change my life. They say this is good for me; that my life will be better by starting school in America at such a young age. But all I felt was separation‚ and hunger as I sat on the "redpainted benches in the fall chill of noon" and last night ’s caldereta hiding beneath me‚ securing away any small differences
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Literary Device Notes Alliteration Repeating the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Allusion A figure of speech that makes a reference to‚ or representation of‚ people‚ places‚ events‚ literary work‚ myths‚ or works of art‚ either directly or by implication. Bildungsroman A type of novel concerned with education‚ development‚ and maturation of a young protagonist. Essentially‚ a Bildungsroman traces the formation of a protagonist’s maturity (the passage
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Mythological Criticism can be used to connect a novel’s themes‚ characters‚ or plot to legends and myths throughout history. In "The Merchant of Venice"‚ religion‚ the three caskets‚ and the pound of flesh are the main ideas that can be used with mythological criticism to help show connections with other legends or stories that have a similar meaning. The main connection in the novel portrays to the three caskets that Portia uses to select her future husband. This symbolism can be connected to
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