language has become a focus of attention. In this paper‚ under the theory of modern stylistics‚ the stylistic features of cyber language and its causes were discussed from vocabulary and grammatical levels. The author has demonstrated some lexical features of cyber language with a number of examples. Then‚ in the second part‚ the grammatical features have been discussed. And the third part is about the causes of these stylistic features. 1.1 Background of the Present Study From 1990s‚ the Internet has
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Analysis Of William Blake’s Poems Infant Joy Notes This simple poem is two stanzas of six lines each. The two stanzas each follow an ABCDDC rhyme scheme‚ a contrast to most of Blake’s other poetic patterns. The rhyming words are always framed by the repetition of "thee" at the end of the fourth and sixth lines‚ drawing the reader’s attention to the parent‚ who speaks‚ and his or her concern with the baby. The infant’s words‚ or those imagined by the parent to be spoken by the infant‚ are set
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Plath‚ Carol Ann Duffy and S. K. Kelen‚ have all used various brief moments of human experience to explore emotions and ideas. Refugee Blues‚ Homecoming‚ The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes‚ Funeral Blues‚ Daddy and Little Red-Cap‚ have through tone‚ stylistic features‚ language devices and personas‚ expressed the idea they centre around. W. H. Auden in Refugee Blues and Bruce Dawe in Homecoming explore the idea that war has negative effects on all. Auden in Refugee Blues explores the emotions a homeless
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ENGL2010 February 10‚ 2013 Analysis of Anne Bradstreet’s Poems Anne Bradstreet’s poem In Reference to Her Children‚ 23 June 1659 is a poem telling of her love‚ care‚ and worries for her children. In Reference to her Children” is both metaphorical and symbolic‚ expressing everything from pathos to love and a hope for her eternal reward. (www.papermasters.com) The poem is structured with a single stanza with every other line rhyming. The speaker seems to be speaking to a semi- private audience given
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Poem analysis Nothing Said by: Brenda Agard 1. The poem is about people who have lost family members‚ brothers and sisters for example. 2. The poem is written in the 2nd person plural. You hear the voice of the people who are protesting about the fact that they have lost their family members. The writer could also be one of the protesters or marchers. 3. Well in the beginning it says what the situation is of the people and what happened. After that the writer tells what they
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a) special political and economic terms; b) non-term political vocabulary; c) newspaper clichés; d) abbreviations; e) neologisms. Publicist style. (oratory‚ speeches‚ essays‚ articles) the style is a perfect ex. Of historical changeability of stylistic differentiation of discourses. In Greece it was practiced in oral form which was named P. in accordance with the name of its corresponding genre. PS is famous for its explicit pragmatic function of persuasion directed at influencing the reader &
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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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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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of Studies of Stylistics and Rhetoric LIYao Abstract: Stylistics is a scientific study of style. It is a new branch of linguistics. Rhetoric is the art or science of the communication in words. In general‚ stylistics is a discipline that studies the ways in which language is used; it is a discipline that studies the styles of language in use. However‚ rhetoric is the scientific study of how language could be employed expressively and effectively in modern times. Studying stylistics and rhetoric
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Rhetorical Strategies and Stylistic Devices Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex. “GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE‚ COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN‚ AND WISDOM ALWAYS TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE.” (Slaughter House-Five‚60) Allusion- a brief and indirect reference to a person‚ place‚ thing or idea of historical‚ cultural‚ literary or political significance. Ex. “Canst thou draw
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