Frost created a scenery where the speaker is looking at a long fork in the woods. Either the speaker can go down one road or go down the other‚ but the speaker does not know which one is the best route. He describes one side of the road to be “grassy and wanted wear; though as for that‚ the passing there‚ had worn them really about the same time” (line 8). In other words‚ the road was well used and known to the community. Then he describes the other side of the fork “in leaves no steps had trodden
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vocabulary structure)‚ grammar (analysis forms of words)‚ syntax (analysis the function of words in a sentence). These areas of study are more or less clear-cut. Some scholars claim that stylistic is a comparatively new branch of linguistics‚ The term stylistics really came into existence not too long ago. Problems of stylistic research 3. the number of functional styles The authors of handbooks on different languages propose systems of styles based on a broad subdivision of all styles into 2 classes literary
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PART I INTRODUCTION I. GENERAL NOTES ON STYLE AND STYLISTICS Stylistics‚ sometimes called l i n g u o - s t y 1 i s t i c s‚ is a branch of general linguistics. It has now been more or less definitely outlined. It deals mainly with two interdependent tasks: a) the investi-gation of the inventory of special language media which by their ontol-ogical features secure the desirable effect of the utterance and b) certain types of texts (discourse) which due to the
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Roosting" is one of the many poems published by Ted Hughes during his literary career dealing with animal and nature. In this poem we have a Hawk who thinks that everything in nature is inferior to him and he will allow no change in his life. The stylistic devices used by Hughes make this poem harsh and dynamic showing us an aggressive‚ unsentimental and gloomy image of the Hawk and at the same time realistic‚ which help to mirror the character of the Hawk. The poem is written in six regular stanzas‚
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WHAT IS STYLE AND STYLISTICS? What is meant by style is debatable because it is highly debatable if human beings are exactly alike. It is very difficult to arrive at a full description of style that is acceptable to all scholars. As such there are many definitions of the word style as there are scholars yet no consensus is reached among them on what style is. Chapman (1973) is of the view that style is the product of social situation i.e. of a common relationship between language users. He further
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same for each poem‚ to help you with applying different approaches depending on the circumstances of the poem concerned. The answers will follow and will go beyond the straightforward brief answer to explore how the literary and linguistic devices used in the poems contribute to meaning. It is in writing about these effects that the real business of critical analysis will really start. Poem 1: The Rainbow by William Wordsworth Let’s begin by looking closely at this very famous short poem
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narrator describes his friend’s‚ Roger Charing‚ love and sudden effulgent flash of intuition‚ that he mustn’t get married on Ruth Barlow. The most important theme of the extract is man’s craft mixed with gentleship‚ how real man should hit the right road‚ without hurting a woman‚ who believes him. Beside‚ the author dwells on the moment that Roger thinks about his own estate. The extract mostly built on chasing ideal house for the couple‚ Roger and Ruth. Their chasing becomes routine for Ruth‚ because
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The Shadow’s Personality. “I am what you have made me.” (Great Expectations‚ 238). Some aren’t able to control their own actions‚ and their purpose in life is decided by someone else. In the Victorian era fiction novel‚ Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens‚ the main character Estella‚ is a beautiful girl raised and controlled by her adoptive mother‚ Miss Havisham to wreak havoc on the male sex. Even though they have the same purpose‚ and have similar qualities‚ both characters have
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This book is based on the main principles and concepts of Decoding Stylistics. The term decoding stylistics (suggested by M.Riffaterre) stands for a trend in stylistics‚ a theory evolved by professor Irina Vladimirovna Arnold and developed by her numerous disciples (including the authors of the present book). As developed in this country Decoding Stylistics unites and applies the concepts and achievements of linguistics‚ literary criticism‚ text theory‚ poetics‚ hermeneutics to text analysis and
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What is a thesis? Your thesis is not your dissertation. Neither is it a one liner about what you are doing. Your thesis is "a position or proposition that a person (as a candidate for scholastic honors) advances and offers to maintain by argument." [Webster’s 7th New Collegiate Dictionary]. "I looked at how people play chess" is not a thesis; " people adapt memories of old games to play new games" is. Similarly‚ "I wrote a program to play chess" is not a thesis; "playing chess requires a database
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