F. Scott Fitzgerald Born in St. Paul‚ Minnesota‚ on September 24‚ 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald was the son of Edward Fitzgerald‚ who worked for Proctor and Gamble and brought his family to Buffalo and Syracuse‚ New York‚ for most of his son’s first decade. Edward Fitzgerald’s great-great-grandfather was the brother of the grandfather of Francis Scott Key‚ who wrote the poem “The Star-Spangled Banner.” This fact was of great significance to Mrs. Fitzgerald‚ Mollie McQuillan‚ and later to Scott. Mollie
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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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by.. Enajsocab Definition of Headline * at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine: a front-page headline * (the headlines) the most important items of news in a newspaper or a broadcast news bulletin * A headline is the title at the top of a newspaper article or a page in a book. * An example of a headline is the title of the day ’s most important news story‚ printed in large type. * a head of a newspaper story or article usually printed in large type and giving
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that he intended to set across to his readers. To do this‚ the author used a number of stylistic elements that include foregrounding‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ diction‚ synthetic parallelism and structure among others. This essay intends to give a brief stylistic analysis of the poem and describe how these devices have affected the meaning of the poem. Basically the poem “Going” according to the essay is about a new era that is coming into a society‚ associating the poem with the theme “Change”‚ whereby
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Languages have varying strategies for representing syntax of clause combining. One of these ways is through syntactic pivots. Many languages tend to put restrictions on the syntactic combining of clauses. This is made possible by the three syntactic functions: S‚ A‚ or O. OBL‚ on the other hand serves as the peripheral argument. According to Dixon (1994)‚ there are two types of syntactic pivot: (1) S->A pivot and; (2) S->O pivot. In (1)‚ the coreferential NP must be derived from S or A in each of
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4.4.2.1. Grammar and Syntax Distinct grammatical and syntactic structures are essential features in newspaper language and differentiate the language of quality press and popular press newspapers. In fact‚ tabloidization involves a “movement away from longer‚ complex‚ analytical writing” in connection with the style of newspaper language (Bird 2009: 41). Firstly‚ the article from 1966 consists of 26 sentences and‚ thus‚ has an approximate average of 3 sentences per 100 words. Furthermore‚ it contains
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Российский университет дружбы народов Институт иностранных языков Направление: лингвистика Stylistic analysis of Chapter II The Postumous papers of the Pickwick club Charles Dickens. Булатовой Анасиасии‚ 402ЛД Москва 2009 The passage is an extract from Dickens’ novel “The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club” from the chapter II which originally
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Анализ текста "Кошка под дождем" The sample of emotive prose which has been chosen for stylistic analysis is a short story "Cat in the rain" by Ernest Hemingway. It has been chosen because it is suggestive and contains a definite psychological implication. The story is interesting from the point of view of the author’s approach to conveying the main idea to the mind of the reader. It is always implicit and remains unspoken. It is the reader himself who should find it behind the simple‚ at first
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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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In the history of art‚ we have seen many paintings which share the same content‚ but were done by different artists in different movements. Each of the artists has a different style‚ different ways to observe what they see to translate into a painting. An example is the “The Regatta” by Theo van Rysselberghe in 1892‚ and the “Slave Ship” by Joseph Mallord William Turner in 1840. “The Regatta” is an oil on canvas painting‚ with the size of 25 x 33 inches. This painting depicts a seascape scene
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