style: • Genuine imagery achieved by expressive devices. • The use of words in contextual and more than one dictionary least influenced by the lexical environment • Peculiar individual selection of vocabulary and syntax reflecting personal evaluation of things or phenomena “Tess of the D’urbervilles” is a victorian‚tragic‚didactic novel teaching the reader a moral lesson and showing the forming of the character.Tess isn’t a traditional tragedy.It takes place in a rural setting
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howling around him.” This sentences is very filled with visual and auditory imagery. The opening sentence creates a feeling of a fast-paced rhythm in its brief expression. The pace reflects the craziness of flooding rain and surging sea. The metaphor of the ship’s “music… howling” brings an auditory imagery which symbolizes the storm‚ which overwhelms the singular pronoun “him” just as the storm overwhelms the Star of the Sea. As well Nature overwhelms the Man. “The low whistling; the tortured
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Orwell and Swift One of the techniques they have common is that both of them are using satire. After comparing Orwell and Swift essay‚ I believe that Swift uses satire more effectively than Orwell does. At first‚ Swift uses his title more effectively than Orwell. Second Swift’s statements which is eating infants for saving Ireland has more impact than Orwell’s statement. Thirdly‚ Swift essay drips with sacrism by using many metophors. First of all‚ the title of Swift’s essay immediately demonstrates
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of nature. Remarque uses personification as well as metaphor to convey the destruction of nature to the reader. Before they
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Anne Bradstreet’s The Author to Her Book describes the complex attitude of the author - specifically the attitude of an author towards her work. Through use of a controlling metaphor‚ that of a child‚ Bradstreet manages to convey all of her feelings towards one of her works. In order to introduce the controlling metaphor of The Author to Her Book‚ Bradstreet begins by using words that allude to the idea of birth. Within line one‚ Bradstreet uses the phrase "offspring of my feeble brain" to show
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communicates his specific and unique idea of love in many clever ways. Throughout this sonnet‚ Shakespeare skillfully defines “love‚” with the use of connotative language and metaphors. The lines that begin with: “O no! it is an ever-fixed mark‚” “Love’s not Time’s fool‚” and “I never writ‚ nor no man ever loved‚” all consist of metaphors and connotative language that reinforce Shakespeare’s idea of the everlasting and unchanging nature of true love. Metaphorical language is seen
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in this speech because it makes his audience think twice about what he is saying. In the speech Henry uses figurative language‚ like similes and metaphors‚ to compare things. An example of figurative language is “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience” (83). Figurative language‚ such as similes and metaphors‚ is helpful because it could compare something complex to something you understand better. In the example above he is comparing a lamp to experience
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poems are to do with life and yet both looked at different parts of it. They each used similar language techniques but for different reasons. They both use metaphors and imagery to emphasise their points In both "Rising five" and "Piano and Drums" metaphors are used to link the surrounding with life itself. In the poem‚ "Rising five" metaphors were used to show the inevitability of death‚ for example in the lines "we look for the grave in the bed: not living rising dead"‚ this indicates how that
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SEMANTICS -The study of semantics includes the study of how meaning is constructed‚ interpreted‚ clarified‚ obscured‚ illustrated‚ simplified‚ negotiated‚ contradicted and paraphrased. AREAS OF SEMANTIC THEORY * Semantic fields * Metaphor * Homonymy * Homophony * Homographs * Polysemy * Hyponymy * Hypernymy * Antonymy * Synonymy A. SEMANTIC FIELD * Set of lexemes which cover a certain conceptual domain and which bear certain specifiable relations
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means and stylistic devices in Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. First‚ we will discuss the aims of linguo-stylistics‚ we’ll give the definitions of the word ‘style’. Second‚ we will present expressive means and stylistic devices‚ such as Metaphors‚ Metonymy‚ Simile‚ Hyperboles‚ Irony‚ etc. Third‚ we will present some examples of the types of expressive means and stylistic devices from the novel
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