millionaire. Many of these stories end with a surprising twist that reveals an unsuspected trait from one or both characters. The short story “Two Thanksgiving Gentlemen” shows us the importance of traditions. It takes place in America on a Thanksgiving Day. The main characters of the story are Stuffy Pete‚ a homeless man‚ and the Old Gentlemen‚ a rich philanthropist. Stuffy Pete is a homeless man. Every Thanksgiving for the last nine years‚ he has been summoned from his bench in New York City’s Union
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saw their lives so he gained a lot from his trips. Sometimes Maugham’s stories were thinly disguised episodes involving his host or others he had met on his travels-circumstances that occasionally resulted in threats and lawsuits. The text for analysis is a short story. The main character is the storyteller who speaks about events from the first person. The secondary character is a friend of the storyteller‚ we know nothing about him: his name‚ age‚ his prof‚ etc. He’s just a companion which answers
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Stylistic Devices in Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury ’s 1953 Fahrenheit 451 contains a number of interesting stylistic devices. Robert Reilly praises Bradbury for having a style "like a great organ. ..." (73). David Mogen comments on the novel ’s "vivid style" (110). Peter Sisario applauds the "subtle depth" of Bradbury ’s allusions (201)‚ and Donald Watt pursues Bradbury ’s bipolar "symbolic fire" (197) imagery. In recent articles I discussed Bradbury ’s use of mirror imagery and nature imagery.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald is in many ways one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. In his first novel‚ This Side of Paradise‚ Fitzgerald epitomized the mindset of an era with the statement that his generation had‚ "grown up to find all Gods dead‚ all wars fought‚ and all faiths in man shaken "(Fitzgerald 307). Aside from being a major literary voice of the twenties and thirties‚ Fitzgerald was also among "The Lost Generation’s" harshest
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evaluative meaning. The context is arranged so that the qualifying word in irony reverses the direction of the evaluation‚ and the word positively charged is understood as a negative qualification and (much-much rarer) vice versa. Irony thus is a stylistic device in which the contextual evaluative meaning of a word is directly opposite to its dictionary meaning‚ So‚ like all other SDs‚ irony does not exist outside the context‚ which varies from the minimal - a word combination‚ as in J. Steinbeck’s
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------------------------------------------------- Student`s Individual Work №1 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Stylistic device (see the lecture №3) Simile An explicit comparison between two things which are basically quite different using words such as like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. (Wordsworth) Metaphor A comparison between two things which are basically quite different without using
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The Remains of the Day - book Analysis The Remains of the Day is third novel by Kazuo Ishiguro one of the most successful writers in English literature. It was published in year 1989 and won The Man Booker Prize for Literature in the same year. It was also turned into a successful movie in 1993 with the same name‚ starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki‚ Japan‚ before he moved to England in 1960 when his father took a position at National Institute of Oceanography
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remarkable. F. Scott Fitzgerald faced many trials in his lifetime‚ struggling with alcoholism‚ debt‚ and a mentally ill wife. He used his life experiences for admirable purposes by including them in his novels and short stories. F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ a man who faced many challenges throughout his lifetime‚ was one of the most adept American authors of the twentieth century. Fitzgerald was born on September 24‚ 1896 in St. Paul‚ Minnesota. His parents‚ Mary and Edward Fitzgerald‚ royally named him
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The American Dream: Product May Vary When heard‚ the phrase “American Dream” is often associated with Martin Luther King Jr.‚ because of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech‚ which illustrated his views during the battle in the civil rights movement. In it‚ he states‚ “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal‚’” (King). This quote‚ along with the remainder of his speech
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reader fully comprehend that it is a story of a man’s cruelty and callousness to a woman‚ having social significance and consequences. The message transmitted to the reader by the whole poetic structure of the story may be put into the following words: a marriage of convenience may be a sordid and ruthless business that drives both partners to ignoble actions. To achieve one’s object in such a marriage‚ as well as to escape it‚ one has to scheme‚ using one’s wits or charm. Then the pursuit of such
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