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    STYLISTIC LEXICOLOGY

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    Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary PLAN 1. Stylistic classification of the English language vocabulary. Classification criteria 2. Standard English vocabulary and its constituents. Neutral words. 3. Specific literary vocabulary. Terms‚ poetic and archaic words‚ obsolete and obsolescent words‚ literary coinages and neologisms‚ foreignisms and barbarisms 4. Specific colloquial vocabulary. Professionalisms‚ jargon and slang‚ vulgarisms and nonce-words‚ dialectisms. LITERATURE Galperin

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    Looking at the poem‚ "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" by Wilfred Owen for the first time‚ I was reminded of the story in the bible where Abram is told to sacrifice his son. In the story‚ as he was about to sacrifice his son as an offering to God‚ an angel comes down and tells him to stop and to sacrifice a lamb instead. He does as he’s told and makes a covenant with God saying that Abram will be the Father of a new nation. But the twist in this poem is that when Abram is told by the angel

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    Home is not a place to come to‚ but rather a feeling you get when you have arrived.” ~ Author unknown The Old Man and The Storm ~ June Cross “Time stopped on the morning of August 29‚ 2005.” ~ June Cross This program starts with the family patriarch‚ 82-year old Herbert Gettridge‚ out in his yard cleaning up from the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He has made it his mission to recreate the home he’d originally crafted more than 50 years earlier‚ this was literally his creation

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    Madrid Metro and Old Man

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    Introduction: I chose the Road Not Taken written by Robert Frost. I chose the poem An Old Man’s Winter Night * The poem is written in third person point of view‚ the narrator is omniscient. * In this poem Frost illustrates the troubled life of an old man who’s memory is slowly fading away. * Throughout the poem Frost uses various literary devices to emphasize the idea that the old man is secluded from everyone. * The poem is written in one stanza following a fixed meter and

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    Old Man at the Bridge CHECK-UP 1. The old man is a farmer. F 2. The narrator is a Fascist who is in revolt against the republic. F 3. The old man wishes to go in the direction of Barcelona. F 4. The old man is in favor of the Loyalist forces. F 5. The old man was the last one to leave his native town. T FOR DISCUSSION 1. In this story the old man represents the innocent people who are the victims of war. How does Hemingway convey the sadness of the old man´s situation? By showing his story

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    work or not. That’s because most of the literary works have some certain kind of features that make them distinguishable‚ especially from daily communication. In the following paragraphs‚ some of these features will be discussed. The following is a famous piece of work written by W.B.Yeats‚ an Irish poet and dramatist‚ praised as “one of the foremost figures in the 20th century”. When You Are Old When you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding by the fire‚ take down this book‚ And

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    Scrooge Grumpy Old Man

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    Scrooge was a very grumpy old man that hates Christmas. All he ever wanted was money‚ money‚ and more money. He was not nice man at all. People could see the anger in his Face. I will be telling you about him and what he looks like. Scrooges looks are just what any grumpy old man would look like. Scrooge a very wrinkly face‚ but again this is because he is old. He has white/gray hair. Scrooge wears a top hat and carries around a cane with him‚ so he can walk. Scrooge also has sideburns just like

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    Stylistic Variation

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    that is theoretically maintained unchanged In recent years considerable attention has been paid to stylistic variation in linguistic description. Variation which used to be described as free has lately been described as fitting within identifiable linguistic or social parameters. Studying stylistic variation is the main focus of this project which is based on the observation that language variation depends not only on the social

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    Parable of the old man and the young Wilfred Owen Despite Owen’s initial anti-war attitude‚ he found himself no longer able to stand aloof بمعزل from the actualities فعليات of the First World War . so he enlisted تجند on 21st October 1915 in the Artist’s Rifles زى اسم سلاح او كتيبه فى الجيش زى مثلا سلاح المشاه. according to his own thinking at that time Experience with its pains and suffering is what a seriousجاد poet would need . The thought of fighting had clearly captured Owen’s imagination

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    Silko’s Ceremony and Syaman Rapongan’s Old Men of the Sea Impacted by Western cultures‚ Native American’s traditions gradually disappear. Similar to Native American‚ The Tao (達悟 Dawu) traditions are threatened by Han influences. To preserve indigenous customs‚ native writers either portray how dominant cultures impact aborigines or portray how native traditions do good for their lives. In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Syaman Rapongan’s Old Men of the Sea (老海人 Laohairen)1‚ both indigenous writers

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