In the Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk’s chapter one‚ Du Bois feels that African Americans in 1904 can progress by pursuing the right to vote‚ education‚ and freedom. Du Bois believes that African Americans can progress by trying to vote. In doing so‚ he feels that the American Negro’s soul will be appeased by the Fifteenth Amendment. Black men planned to enter the “American Kingdom” by voting themselves in. “Had not made war and emancipated millions? Had not votes enfranchised the freedmen? Was
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FUNCTIONAL STYLISTICS Functional stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies functional varieties of the literary language determined by specific spheres and aims of communication. In modern society every person constantly finds himself in regularly recurring situations typical of the given culture‚ in which he has to play a definite social role‚ i.e. to behave according to norms accepted in the given society for such situations. One of the manifestations of a social role of
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constraints of Victorian moral values‚ male superiority and the influence of aristocracy. This is further illuminated by Du Maurier’s Rebecca where male dominance and misogyny mean only the woman will pay. As a woman in the midst of an undeniably patriarchal society‚ Tess is unable to escape the social structure. Tess epitomizes the case that the innocent pay for the guilty. Similarly‚ Rebecca faces a fight against the pressure of the Victorian society to maintain a perfect marriage‚ but fails to succeed
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the human world) and nature. The red wheelbarrow sits unused and neglected‚ while rain seems to wash it clean and make it look brand spanking new. Chickens hang out with the wheelbarrow and keep it company. It almost seems like this wheelbarrow is part of nature. The absence of humans in this scene makes us feel the wheelbarrow’s loneliness and makes us appreciate nature for paying attention to the wheelbarrow. Born on September 17‚ 1883 in Rutherford‚ New Jersey‚ William Carlos Williams was
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Student number: 12056010 A Stylistic Analysis of « the lost baby poem » by Lucille Clifton In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself. In this poem Lucille Clifton is telling the experience she had when she had an
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Stylistic Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Speech Abstract Higher level English learners always pay attention to English public speech‚ especially those inaugural speeches. They take them as fine literary efforts and good analysis material. This paper tries to give an analysis of Obama’s inaugural speech from stylistic perspective‚ in order to help to better appreciate Obama’s presentation skills. Keywords: stylistics‚ syntactic‚ lexics‚ rhetoric Barack Hussein Obama was elected to be the forty-fourth
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papers of the Pickwick club (Dickens) ” belongs to…style: alliteration The sentence “The camp‚ the pulpit and the low For rich man’s sons are free” The sentence “The cock is covering‚ the stream is flowing ” belongs to…style: parallelism The stylistic device in the sentence "There was a town down there‚ as flat as a flannel- The word-combinations “peopled desert‚ populous solitude‚ proud humility ” to…style : zeugma What is slang word?
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years for Hemingway. Three Stories and Ten Poems was published in 1923‚ In Our Time in 1925. In 1926‚ The Torrents of Spring and the widely successful novel‚ The Sun Also Rises were published. A collection of short stories titled Men Without Women followed in 1927. Hemingway continued to write producing what many critics still feel is the best novel ever written about World War I. A Farewell to Arms was published in 1929 and solidified Hemingway’s reputation as one the greatest writers of his generation
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Book analysis: Sirque du Freak by Darren Shan It´s impossible to put down! Introduction The book I read was called Cirque du Freak. This is a quick and easy to read thriller for the whole family. Darren Shan tells this 266 page "true story" about his life as a child wonderfully. This story is an attention grabber and once you start‚ it will be hard to put down. Setting The setting itself is pretty simple. It starts in what I assume is about a fifth or sixth grade classroom and then falls
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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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