Plan of the literary analysis I. Introduction 1) story presentation (including some words about the author) I have read an extract from ... under the title ... by ... To start with I’d like to draw your attention to the author of this story. ... is an outstanding contemporary English (American) writer ... is one of the world’s greatest novelists ... is the greatest English (American) short-story writer ... is one of the most prominent English (American) novelists of the second half of the 19th century
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In what ways does this extract/s show that Martin Luther King was an effective public speaker? In Martin Luther King’s speech ‘I have a dream’ He uses rhetorical devices‚ emotive language and a careful choice of pronouns to establish rapport with the audience. Before King became a speaker he was a Baptist minister‚ which means he was used to speaking in public and was very knowledgeable on the bible. The speech was given exactly one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation and was making
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Colonial Experiment 1788 – 1918 Assignment 1 - Review In the extract ‘Convicts‚ jailers and colonists’ 1779-1821 from the book ‚ Sources of Australian History(1971)‚ the Author Manning Clark uses the primary resource from Lord Sydney to the lords and commissioners of the treasury in 1786 to support the text which discusses the problem of overcrowded jails in England and the proposal for a convict colony in Australia in 1784 – 1786. The primary resource is a dispatch that was spoken by Lord
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Steps to Text Analysis Recommended Steps in Text Analysis Introduction: briefly define the text type (the functional style and the genre)‚ the topic‚ the problems raised‚ the cultural and historical background of the author and his text. Useful tips: The first step includes defining the type of the text you are analyzing. Does the text represent fiction/belles lettres style/non-fiction? Is it a whole text or an extract? If it is fiction what genre does the text represent? It should be noted that
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Lexicological analysis of the extract from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Light that Failed” Contents 1. The functional style 2. The variants of English 3. Etymological analysis 4. Polysemy 5. Grammatical meaning 6. Contextual analysis 7. Componential analysis 8. Homonymy 9. Synonymy 10. Antonymy 11. Hypero-hyponimic relations 12. Word-formation 13. Idioms 14. Phrasal verbs 15. Morphological analysis 16. Resources 17. Dictionaries They headed for a certain tree that Dick knew well
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American Psycho: Analysis This extract of ‘American Psycho’ conveys most of the wider themes of the text‚ with similar stylistic techniques that are seen throughout the novel. Ellis uses a peculiar chapter title with ‘End of the 1980’s’ for this extract and throughout the rest of the book. These titles usually relate to the theme of the chapter or the events within it. This extract is named ‘End of the 1980’s’ which is very significant to the wider text. The entire novel is a dark‚ satirical
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Stylistic Comparison of Mer-ib and his Wife in their Chamber of Sacrifice‚ Egypt‚ Old Kingdom and Euthymides‚ Revelers‚ Greece‚ Archaic Period This paper will analyze and explore the stylistic differences between the largely unrealistic and conventional style of the Egyptian art of the Old Kingdom depicted in the work Mer-ib and his Wife in their Chamber of Sacrifice and the realistic style of Greek artist Euthymides in his work Revelers. The primary differences in these art styles lies in
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STYLISTIC ANALYSIS William Somerset Maugham «THE ESCAPE» William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. The trend he belongs to is realism with slight ifluence of expressionism. A novelist‚ a dramatist‚ and a short-story writer‚ he gained an outstanding reputation with his prominent books “Of Human Bondage”‚ “The Moon and Sixpence”‚ and “The Razor’s Edge”. The observer of the first decades of the 20th century‚ Maugham is deeply critical of the morals
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How does Miller create Mood and Atmosphere in this extract? (Scene where Eddie kisses Catherine and Rodolfo) At the beginning of this extract there is a sense of dramatic irony as the audience knows that this will be a drama filled extract because they know that Rodolfo and Catherine have gone into the bedroom and may have assumed that they have slept together. They also know that Eddie is drunk‚ ‘He is unsteady‚ drunk.’ The tension in the atmosphere is caused by the fact that Eddie is drunk
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I’d like to analyze the extract from a book which is entitled “To kill a mockingbird”. The author is Harper Lee‚ an American author known for her 1960-Pulitzer-Prize-winning and who is considered now by many to be a literary icon. Harper Lee was born in 1926 in the state of Alabama. In 1945-1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. Her novel ‘To kill a mockingbird’ which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
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