Stylistics Definitions of Stylistics: • The study of style. Style has to do with making CHOICES • The study of the way an author uses words and grammar as well as other elements both within the sentence and within the text as a whole • Part of linguistics which concentrates on variation in the use of language‚ often‚ but not exclusively with attention to the most conscious and complex use of language in literature. • The study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation. -
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Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s
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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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Eddie Costello Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut The book begins with a writer researching for his book . John‚ the author and narrator of this story‚ wants to create a factual book about “The day the world ended”. It was about the day that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and what important American people were doing on that day. He talks with Newt‚ son of Dr. Felix Hoenikker‚ the creator of the atomic bomb. John soon learns of ice-nine (a tiny bit of it could freeze all the water in
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The story “Cat in the Rain” by Ernest Hemingway is about an American couple who stays at a hotel with a beautiful view of the sea and different monuments. After describing the view from their hotel room‚ on the second floor‚ Ernest continues the story with the American woman having a conflict. The story begins when she noticed a kitty outside her window trying to find shelter from the rain; she instantly wanted to go get the kitty. With her husband wanting to continue to read she started her journey
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The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch is a twisted story full of drama and scandals with each character more complex than the next. It is often simple to pick apart and make assumptions about a novel’s protagonist. In the case of The Black Prince it is clear to see that the main character and first person narrator is in fact a repressed homosexual. Throughout the novel he faces many challenges to his gender and sexuality and although the stories‚ “clown” Francis Marloe suggests this many times during
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ENC 1102 Gothic: Poe and Hawthorne June 13‚ 2011 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe are considered masters of American gothic fiction. Gothic is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Jennifer Palladino cited Herman Melville who wrote “Gothic was nothing if not new and varied; yet at the same time‚ there was an unexpected mental growth as well‚ a dimensional growth in acuity of intelligence and refinement of consciousness.” Poe wrote more of a horror
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A Qualitative Life in the Face of a Quantative Society: Sheelagh Morris’s “Letter to a Cat” Sheelagh Morris’s short story‚ “Letter to a Cat‚” is a dramatization of the conflict between two sets of life-values: the qualitative and the quantative. Norma is someone who has qualitative values‚ that is‚ someone who values such things as literature and art. We term such a person as one with qualitative values‚ because‚ even while such things as literature and art may be considered “valuable‚” they
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This painting focuses on the night scenes and crowd scenes‚ heavily influenced by jazz culture and skin tones of women and women themselves because they were not focused on around this time. This painting annunciates skin tone as something diverse‚ inclusive‚ and pluralistic. Documenting women of varying blood quantities like octoroon‚ quadroon‚ and mulatto. From the first look Motley takes viewers outside one of Bronzeville’s many nightspots. He gives you the cigarettes and cigar shop. A restaurant
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Andrea Belloso Professor Nelson Monday‚ Wednesday‚ Friday; 1-3:50 12/12/14 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom paper There can be many social problems that could be brought upon reading this play. Wilson felt the need to state the social problems that were relevant to the era where there was a lot of racism going on and a lot of discrimination at hand. There was a lot of oppression by the white culture‚ racism‚ and the need of feeling powerless from the white people who believe to be better than the African
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