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    Stylistic analysis

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    Stylistic Devices 1 IMAGERY Simile  (Vergleich): An explicit comparison between two things which are basically quite different using words such as like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. (Wordsworth) Metaphor  (Metapher): A comparison between two things which are basically quite differ­ ent without using like or as. While a simile only says that one thing is like another‚ a metaphor says that one thing is another. (adj. metaphorical) All the

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    Decoding Stylistics

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    Decoding Stylistics   Stylistics of the author and of the reader. The notions of encoding and decoding           Decoding stylistics is the most recent trend in stylistic research that employs theoretical findings in such areas of science as information theory‚ psychology‚ statistical studies in combination with linguistics‚ literary theory‚ history of art‚ literary criticism‚ etc.           Decoding stylistics makes an attempt to regard the esthetic value of a text based on the interaction

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    Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ the author of “A very Old Man with Enormous Wings” tells a story in a small village where life was normal and simple‚ a very old man with wings was found near Pelayo courtyard. The author narrates how everybody was curious to find out the new event‚ however‚ once perceived it was an old‚ very old man with disintegrated wing and unable to communicate‚ the old man lost the fame and interest of the villagers. The author of this story is trying to tell us how society as individual

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    Flight by Doris Lessing Flight - Text Analysis In this assignment I’m going to analyze the short story‚ Flight by Doris Lessing. This short-story was published in 1957‚ in a collection of short stories entitled The Habit of Loving. This is an old short story but it is a very popular one among many. Dorris Lessing (93) was born in 1919‚ in Khermanhah in Persia (now Iran) and she is a British novelist‚ poet‚ playwright‚ librettist‚ biographer and a short story writer. Her parents were British

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    All stylistic means of the English languages can be divided into expressive means (EM) and stylistic devices (SD). “The expressive means of a language are those phonetic‚ morphological‚ word building‚ lexical‚ preseological or syntactical forms which exist in language as-a-system for the purpose of logical and various dictionaries. Among lexical EM we must mention words with emotive meanings‚ interjections‚ polysemantic words‚ vulgar words‚ slang etc. The fact that polysemantic words retain

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    Doing Stylistic Analysis (or four steps to heaven) READ THROUGH THE WHOLE OF THIS PAGE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN WORK ON YOUR ANALYSIS ... FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW. Step One: Initial Guidance DO NOT DO ANYTHING BUT READ THROUGH THIS SECTION DO NOT START WRITING OR NOTE-TAKING YET! If you are offered a choice‚ DO NOT choose to analyse any text that you really think you don ’t understand! Go for something you think you can make some sense of‚ even on an initial reading. Do give the author

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    Old Man at the Bridge by Ernest Hemingway. Analysis. “Old Man at the Bridge” was inspired by Hemingway’s travels as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. Old Man at the Bridge demonstrates the power of narrative art. It takes a small‚ ordinary detail in a situation and by the art of story-telling transforms it into a powerful story about the tragedy of war. The old man becomes a symbol of the countless civilian victims of war-- those "without politics." The old man is

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    Sample Syllabus for English 102 Text in blue requires your review or refers to optional instructions that can be deleted. <Instructor Name> Office: <instructor’s office> English Department Mail Room: E & T 637 Office Hours: <instructor’s office hours—80 minutes per week for each 4-unit class> Campus Phone: <instructor’s telephone number> Email: <instructor’s email address—this is optional> Course Web Site: <URL for course materials—this is optional> English 102: Composition II Catalog Description

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    The Parable of the Old Man and the Young Tuesday‚ 11 May 2010 7:40 AM Owen uses the story from Genesis. It starts in the middle of the story of Abram Killing his son‚ Isaac He is preparing the wood and this shows that there is cold-blooded planning behind his actions. We emphasise with the son‚ who is about to be killed Biblical language is used such as ’clave’ and ’spake’ to help set the appropriate tone‚ this helps Owen stress what those who promote and wage war are doing to young men sent

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    CHAPTER 2. Peculiarities of translation of stylistic devices in the short stories by E.A.Poe 2.1. Main characteristics of translation of stylistic devices 2.1. Reproduction of simile in the short stories by E.A.Poe 2.2. Reproduction of metaphor in the short stories by E.A.Poe 2.3. Reproduction of epithets in the short stories by E.A.Poe 1.3.1. Simile . According to K. Ya. Lotots’ka simile is an imaginative comparison which is also called literary comparison.[27‚ p

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