Balance: A Corpus-assisted Stylistic Analysis of Woolfian Parallelism in To the Lighthouse MINGZHU ZHAO Minzu University of China Received: 5 February 2012 / Accepted: 6 July 2012 ABSTRACT This study has a two-fold objective: 1) to examine the density and variety of parallelism in Virginia Woolfs landmark novel To the Lighthouse through a sample-based comparison between this novel and other representative modernist novels; 2) to discuss the specific lexical and syntactic structures that characterize
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listened"(18). The detail shows his immediate attraction right away and some sort of romantic chemistry between them. Chapter Two Fitzgerald uses many stylistic devices in chapter two‚ but the most dominant and important is the syntax. He opens the chapter describing the valley which is about half way between the West Egg and New York in a loose sentence. He says it’s a "valley of ashes" where they take "forms of houses" and the "men move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery
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The Analysis of The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin 1. Information about the author: Kate was formally educated at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis where she kept a commonplace book "in which the thoughtful adolescent recorded themes that appear in her later fiction‚ among them women’s roles and the conflict between desire and duty. Kate began her career as a fiction writer in 1888. The literary trend she belongs to realistic fiction. The mine literary works are "A Point at
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The stylistic analysis of Sherwood Anderson’s short story “Hands” I would like tell you about the story I have read. It is written by an American novelist and short story writer. It is called “Hands” and this store is referred to his most enduring work the short story sequence Winesburg‚ Ohio. “Hands” is the story of alone man who has almost no connection with the people of Winesburg‚ although he has lived near the town for twenty years. Many years ago he had quiet unfortunate
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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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A Tentative Stylistic Analysis of the Poem I Am Nobody！ Who are you？ Course: English Stylistics and Rhetoric Lecturer: Zhang Xuhong Credit: 2 Time of Assigned: 28/11/2013 Time of Submission: 19/12/2013 Student Number: 2010010107 Name: Tian Ye Class: (Grade 2010) Class 1 English Department‚ Harbin Normal University A Tentative Stylistic Analysis of the Poem I Am Nobody！ Who are you？ Abstract: This essay is intended as a tentative analysis of Emily Dickinson’s
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expressiveness and originality to the nomination of the object. Evaluation of the named concept was often present too‚ but it was an optional characteristic‚ not inherent in any of these SDs. Their subjectivity relies on the new and fresh look at the object mentioned‚ which shows the latter from a new and unexpected side. In irony‚ which is our next item of consideration‚ subjectivity lies in the evaluation of the phenomenon named. The essence of this SD consists in the foregrounding not of the logical but of
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SEMINAR III STYLISTIC LEXICOLOGY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1. Stylistic differentiation of the English Language. a) stylistic and style meaning of the word; b) types of stylistic meaning of the word: emotional evaluative expressive. Criteria for the stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary. 2. Words which have lexico-stylistic paradigm. Words which have no lexico-stylistic paradigm. 3. Stylistic functions of literary words: poetic diction archaic words barbarisms bookish
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It falls into three varieties‚ each having its own distinctive features. Unlike other formal styles‚ the publicist style has spoken varieties‚ in particular‚ the oratorical sub-style. The development of radio and television has brought into being a new spoken variety – the radio and television commentary. The other two are theessay and articles in newspapers‚ journals and magazines. The general aim of the publicist style is to exert influence on public opinion‚ to convince the reader or the listener
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