Ismael Gonzalez Professor Edwards February 24‚ 2013 William Stafford “Traveling Through the Dark” & Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” In Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” we can see how many different aspects of life decision making comes in the form of symbolisms. “Two roads diverge in a yellow wood. And sorry I couldn’t not travel both” This showing use how unwilling the character is of not making a right decision‚ this is centered on how life can come with certain choices one must make
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for interpretation making them negotiable. There are moments when people encounter crossroads‚ where they must choose a path. “The step not taken” is a story about a man‚ who was at a crossroad and chose a path that he regretted soon after and continued to be haunted with guilt. The hero‚ Paul D’Angelo experienced an epiphany in his story “The step not taken”‚ where his subconscious acts as his benevolent guide. His journey will be analyzed through the archetypal theory‚ where the stages of monomyth
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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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Writers provide glimpses of other worlds‚ giving readers opportunities to reflect on their own world To what extent do you agree with this view? The Road written by Cormac McCarthy is a post-apocalyptic novel about a man and a boy travelling down across what seems to be a bleak and dull land. In this book‚ we see a world that seems to have a bleak and dark future without a lot of hope. Land is somehow destroyed‚ perhaps by a natural cause. The cycle of seasons has been completely altered and
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Introduction STYLISTICS is a branch of linguistics which applies the theory and methodology of modern linguistics to the study of STYLE. It studies the use of language in specific contexts and attempts to account for the characteristics that mark the language use of individuals and social groups. Although stylistics sometimes includes investigation of spoken language‚ it is usually concerned with the examination of written language‚ particularly literary texts. The stylistic analysis of a text
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“Zombieland” is a film where a lot of stylistic choices were made. Especially the opening scene says a lot about the film and the characters. Mise-en-scene‚ cinematography‚ editing and sound shape the film’s effect on the viewer. The film begins in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. The first shot is unbalanced to prime our expectation that something will change position. The shot is of the American flag‚ which is focused while the background is unfocused which means it indicates that the flag
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If someone met a crossroad in his or her life and both roads brought many good things‚ what would he or she do? Robert Frost had to choose a path to take in his life. In “The Road Not Taken” He really thought long and hard about his decisions and which choice will take him further in life. The reader can tell from line 2 that the writer is very disappointed he couldn’t take both roads. He chose a road praying that choice was the right one. The writer uses figurative language in the poem to get
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evaluative meaning. The context is arranged so that the qualifying word in irony reverses the direction of the evaluation‚ and the word positively charged is understood as a negative qualification and (much-much rarer) vice versa. Irony thus is a stylistic device in which the contextual evaluative meaning of a word is directly opposite to its dictionary meaning‚ So‚ like all other SDs‚ irony does not exist outside the context‚ which varies from the minimal - a word combination‚ as in J. Steinbeck’s "She
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ambiguity of manner. 8. Anachronism – Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time‚ esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword in an anachronism in modern warfare. 9. Anaphora – A rhetorical device in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginnings of successive phrases or sentences. Compare this to epistrophe‚ where such repetitions occur at the ends. (lesson 10. Analogy – A similarity between like features of two things‚ on which a
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The Step Not Taken by Paul D’Angelo Name: Institution: The Step Not Taken by Paul D’Angelo The Step Not Taken by Paul D’Angelo provides an indication of how people act in the modern era. Though Paul feels guilty‚ very few people generate the same sense of remorse when dealing with other individuals. The modern premise is to run away from problems‚ and people-having problems create a greater incentive to run away because it is not a personal problem. This is the case when dealing with
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