” | Hortative Sentence“So let us begin a new one…” | PathosBased on the emotions of JFK. | Cumulative Sentence But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort…yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance. | Oxymoron“But this peaceful revolution.” | AntimetaboleAsk not what your country..” | Rhetorical Question“Will you joining in the historic effort?” | Archaic Diction“Beliefs for which our for bears fought are still at issue around the globe.” | Imagery“The
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with loss and grief in different ways‚ and this is something the novel‚ ‘The Lovely Bones’ written by Alice Sebold‚ emphasized. Sebold effectively uses a range of techniques to express this idea‚ including first person narrative‚ pathetic fallacy‚ oxymoron and symbolism. To begin with‚ first person narrative is used by Sebold to portray the idea of loss and grief and how different people move on in different circumstances. Susie Salmon‚ the main character is used in this case. After being raped
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tragedy after Mercutio`s death. This is seen through the language which becomes darker after this scene. Certain characters change e.g. Romeo becomes violent after this scene. I will also discuss themes that arise and the fact that the play is an oxymoron. Act 3 Scene 1 is important because the play changes within it from comedy to tragedy. In this paragraph I will explain that the play is a bawdy comedy before the scene. As we can see in Act 1 Scene1 the servants make bawdy jokes “I will cut of
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[pic] LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY STYLISTIC FEATURES OF HUMOROUS DISCOURSE IN “THE FOURTH HAND’’ BY JOHN IRVING Course Paper in BA English Philology Programme Academic advisor: (signature)
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LANGUAGE First Slide The language is observed to be simple and straightforward. It is used this way to send a straightforward message which is "Death". The speaker aims to express his feelings by keeping the language simple giving the illusion that the speaker is sincere. He keeps the language simple as he shows that he is speaking form the heart‚ without thinking or making things complicated. Second Slide Throughout the poem‚ it is observed that the poem keeps a constant simple language which the
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this oxymoron helped create a clear understanding of the incongruity of feelings the nation has. How they are not subduing themselves to the desire for war is still a float in their minds. By referencing the past challenges he reassures his audience that they will also be able to overcome them not as individuals but as a whole. The oxymoron describes the mixed emotions of their past and how they have been able to overcome and prosper through issues they faced as a nation‚ and using an oxymoron helps
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fiancé‚ and as a result she stopped all the clocks‚ stayed in her wedding dress and left the wedding banquet out for decades. Miss Havisham’s bitter and violent personality is revealed by Duffy’s use of word choice‚ oxymoron‚ inversion and structure. The poem is started by an oxymoron which conveys Miss Havisham’s feelings towards her ex-fiancé. "Beloved Sweetheart Bastard". The words "Beloved" and "Sweetheart" have connotations of precious and loved so one would assume that Miss Havisham loves
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The Uncivilized Memoir You told me‚ “Life is made up of two things. The smartest morons and the dumbest oxymorons.” Rewind. When he was nineteen years old he had worked in a Transylvanian Bauxite mine. Sixteen months later he was choked with lung disease‚ yet God had answered his prayers. He was rosy-cheeked and right as rain just in time for the year when war came. He had spent his life with his head in the clouds and heart in the air fleet‚ yet he was a charmingly down-to-earth person with a
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bullet-shaped head All these stylistic devices describe the main hero as a person who is very tired of life‚ he is passive‚ but he wants to change something in it‚ that is why to show us the antagonistic character of the visitor‚ the author uses an oxymoron “bright dark eyes”. Also we can see the despair of a stranger‚ because he uses “short‚ sharp sentences”‚ to emphasize it the author told us that they had “a forcible ring”. 2. Give synonyms of colloquial style to the following literary words: “to
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paragraph gives us an oxymoron‚ "And then an awful leisure was belief to regulate." Leisure is usually a term used for something done in free time‚ something for fun‚ but in this poem it’s given as an awful leisure. In this case‚ it seems as if this is a gathering of people‚ but not for fun‚ more like for mourning over the dead. The awful leisure can also mean as a gathering to accept or try to believe that the woman has really gone from these people’s lives. The attitude of this oxymoron is more like awkwardly
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