LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES Metaphor Genuine metaphors Trite(dead) metaphors Metonymy Metonymy Metonymy is the substitution of one word for another with which it is associated: ‘The White House said…’ (the American government) ; the press (newspapers and magazines); the cradle(infancy‚ place of origin);the grave(death); The hall applauded; The marble spoke; The kettle is boiling; I am fond of Agatha Christie; We didn’t speak because there were ears all around us; He was about a sentence away from
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In the novel‚ The Poisonwood Bible‚ Kingsolver uses both short and long sentences to show Rachel’s aging in the story and also uses run on sentences to show how scattered Rachel’s thoughts are. At the start of the story‚ Rachel is only fifteen years old and only uses basic sentences such as “Then he just stopped‚ just froze perfectly still” (27). Her limited vocabulary and poor grammar shows that she is young and has not been very well educated. As Rachel grows‚ as does her word choice and sentence
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are: Edgar Allen Poe’s "The Black Cat"‚ Marghanita Laski’s "The Tower" and lastly‚ "The Hitchhiker" by the ironically named Anthony Horrowitz. All three of these stories share the same genre and that is horror’. Also they are all short stories. Despite sharing the same genre these three stories are all very different and all use various techniques the help give the reader a sense of horror which is of course the goal of the writer in all horror stories. In "The Black Cat" it is evident that the
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quite subjective. The description of the geographical position of the state Winnemac and its largest city makes exactly such impression. But when the reader goes on he faces really vivid examples of hyperbola‚ epithets‚ zeugma‚ metaphors and other stylistic devices. One becomes immersed in the bright‚ humorous and at the same time critical world of Sinclair Lewis. The author mocks at the weak points of education‚ at ridiculous university traditions and the life of students in general. The title
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Academic Analysis of Poe’s Writings Thesis: It can be said that everyone comes with a predetermined destiny where‚ no matter what you do in life‚ your fate has been determined before birth. It matter not how hard you try to change it because it is inescapable. 1) Annabel Lee In the poem “Annabel Lee”‚ the narrator felt as if his love for his lost wife was stronger and more powerful than death itself. He couldn’t comprehend or accept that fate has run its course. It has become something
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Stylistic Perspective Analysis – Fight Club Movie Fight Club is a movie where the director and cinematographer employ heavy use of computer graphics and use of camera angles and color. In this paper‚ I am going to analyze how the film director and cinematographer employ the use of camera angles‚ color and narratives to help convey a subliminal message to the audience that the narrator in the movie is suffering from insomnia and thus have developed an alter ego. The alter ego he has created is
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Text Analysis J. Thurber. “The Unicorn in the Garden” “The Unicorn in the Garden” is a story written by the American cartoonist‚ author and journalist James Thurber. He was well known for his cartoons and short stories‚ mainly published in The New Yorker magazine. “The Unicorn in the Garden” is about a man and his wife. One morning he sees the unicorn in his garden eating flowers. Positively excited he goes upstairs to tell his wife about it. She is being in a bad mood calls him
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principles and concepts of Decoding Stylistics. The term decoding stylistics (suggested by M.Riffaterre) stands for a trend in stylistics‚ a theory evolved by professor Irina Vladimirovna Arnold and developed by her numerous disciples (including the authors of the present book). As developed in this country Decoding Stylistics unites and applies the concepts and achievements of linguistics‚ literary criticism‚ text theory‚ poetics‚ hermeneutics to text analysis and text interpretation and as the
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Cats in the Cradle Song Analysis Ever hear a song and you instantly know you are going to love it? The song vibrates through your body?(and no I don’t mean by vibrate through your body by the music turned up to one million.) when picking a song to present in class‚ it needed to provide meaningful lyrics‚ fantastic imagery‚ and a rhythm that makes people tap their feet. The song “Cats in the cradle‚” was perfect. Cats in the cradle was introduced into the world of music in 19. Its is written and
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Comparative Essay – The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat Through most of his short stories‚ Edgar Allan Poe uses many different devises to create tension. Some of which he uses repeatedly making it easy to find similarities between the building up of tension and suspense in his texts‚ as well as differences. The ways Poe does this vary between the narrator’s sanity‚ including its cruelty after committing a crime and the sense of guilt afterwards‚ to the use of literary devices such as anaphora
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