Stylistic Devices 1 IMAGERY Simile (Vergleich): 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 (Metapher): A comparison between two things which are basically quite differ ent without using like or as. While a simile only says that one thing is like another‚ a metaphor says that one thing is another. (adj. metaphorical) All the
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CAN-CAN The text is head-lined CAN-CAN. The author of the text is Arturo Vivante. ARTURO VIVANTE was born in Rome and grew up in Italy‚ England‚ and Canada. He earned a medical doctorate from Rome University in 1949‚ but left his medical practice in the mid-1950s when his short stories began to be published. Now he lives in the United States where he has been a fuul-time writer for over thirty years. He has published two novels “A googly babe” (1951) and “Doctor Giovanni” (1969)‚ as well
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“Applying” conversation analysis in applied linguistics: Evaluating dialogue in English as a second language textbooks1 JEAN WONG Abstract This article examines telephone dialogues in English as a second language (ESL) textbooks against the backdrop of what is reported about real telephone interaction in conversation analysis research. An analysis of eight textbooks reveals that the fit between what conversation analysts say about natural telephone conversation and the examples found in textbooks
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Tennyson’s poem‚ “Crossing the Bar‚” he describes his placid attitude towards death. He wrote‚ “Crossing the Bar” in 1889‚ three years before his death while crossing the Solent. Days before his death‚ he asked his son to put his poem at the end of all his poetry editions (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Throughout the poem‚ Tennyson demonstrates his acceptance of death through an extended metaphor of “crossing the bar” as he transitions into death. In “Crossing the Bar”‚ nautical metaphors
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The answers will follow and will go beyond the straightforward brief answer to explore how the literary and linguistic devices used in the poems contribute to meaning. It is in writing about these effects that the real business of critical analysis will really start. Poem 1: The Rainbow by William Wordsworth Let’s begin by looking closely at this very famous short poem by William Wordsworth. It’s usually called The Rainbow although it was actually never given a title by Wordsworth himself
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Stylistics Lecture 2 Source: Halliday: ? Objectives You should be able to: 1. Define of the term stylistics 2. Explain the task of the stylistician 3. Explain the different phases of stylistic analysis 4. Explain what is involved in stylistic analysis. 5. Explain the difference between stylistics and discourse analysis Stylistics • Definition: • Halliday defines a stylistician as someone who can comprehend literary texts through a comprehension of their language structures. literary texts
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STYLISTICS In Stylistics Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. The book includes examples of poems‚ plays and novels from Shakespeare to the present day. This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates explains the terminology of literary form‚ considers the role of stylistics in twentieth-century criticism‚ and shows‚ with worked examples‚ how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth century. This
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Name: Sajid Aziz‚ Roll no: AU515926 MA TEFL‚ Course Code: 5666 Assignment no: 2‚ Spring‚ 2013 Research Project A Stylistic Analysis of the Poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” By: William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow So much depends Upon A red wheel Barrow Glazed with rain Water Beside the white Chickens Introduction Oppose practicing the learned rhetoric in poetry writing‚ Williams finds his subjects in such homely items as wheelbarrows. He believes that
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Alliteration 1. Is derived from Latin’s “Latira”. It means “letters of alphabet”. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words‚ having the same first consonant sound‚ occur close together in a series. 2. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse. Around the rock the ragged rascal ran. But a better butter makes a batter better. A big bully beats a baby boy. Park Place. Mary marveled at the magnificent monument. Anadiplosis The term anadiplosis
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for the 4th year students COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS of Text 1 “Doctor in the House” by R.Gordon Developed and compiled by Zhikhareva N.A.‚ Bezhinar I.S. Assignments in Interpretation I. Plot and Plot structure Read more: (Borisova – pp.10-16) Study Supplement 2 and answer the following questions: 1. What type of conflict is the
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