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    SYNTACTIC STYLISTIC DEVICES The sentence‚ as a unit of a certain level‚ is a sequence of relatively independent lexical and phrasal units (words or word combinations)‚ and what differentiates a sentence from a word is the fact that the sentence structure is changeable; it does have any constant length: it can be shortened or extended‚ complete or incomplete‚ simple‚ compound or complex. Besides‚ its constituents‚ length‚ word-order‚ as well as communicative type (assertion‚ negation‚ interrogation

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    Hemingway Hero? Old Man and the Sea “… A very old man walking unsteadily but with dignity.” This excerpt is from Ernest Hemingway’s A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place‚ but it could have easily been mistaken for‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ also written by Hemingway. In both stories‚ the old man and Santiago‚ both become very unsteady at the end of the tale; but‚ they manage to maintain their dignity. For the old man‚ in A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place‚ the reason he is so unsteady is because he is drunk. He

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    sentence "I would give you the whole world to know " contains: hyperbole; The sentence "I’m writing in connection with your account" is typical of.... *business letter The sentence "In the quietness of these winter evenings there is one clock: the sea" The sentence "The long arm of the law will catch him in the end" contains: personification. The sentence “…to rob Peter to pay Paul” belongs to…style: alliteration The sentence “A fine friend you are! That’s pretty kettle of fish!” belongs to…style:

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    “The Man Who Lost the Sea” Response Paper The short story “The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Theodore Sturgeon is told from both the second person and the third person points of view. This is atypical of most stories‚ as they are either told in the first person or third person point of view. It is unusual that the second person perspective is given‚ and very rare that two different points of view are given. Since this is so out of the ordinary‚ the question of why Sturgeon chooses to give two perspectives

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    FUNCTIONAL STYLISTICS

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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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    corner and a lot of people would decide to take another route. Some people would take on that corner and decide to quit. Some people do it as Skiff Beaman does: Take on the tight corner and find a better one along the way. In the book The Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick‚ Samuel “Skiff” Beaman is tackled by many of Life’s problems but unlike most people‚ he’d challenge those issues. Sometimes he’d find something a bit better out of the problem. The theme I believe applies to this series of

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    Kazmina J. In-41 Stylistic analysis. On the day that E.M. Forster died by A.S. Byatt. The text I would like to analyze is “On the day that E.M. Forster died” written by A.S. Byatt. Dame Antonia Susan Duffy‚ DBE‚ known as A. S. Byatt is an English novelist‚ poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008‚ The Times newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. This text is social genre because the author describe social‚ professional spheres of life with the help of such vocabulary

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    Stylistic Analysis on Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Background of the Poem Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese is a love poem in a sonnet form. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote this poem in secret when she was being courted by her then husband-to-be‚ Robert Browning. She wrote a series of 44 sonnets and sonnet 43 became the most famous. These series of poems were published in 1850. The poems express her intense and undying love for Robert

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    characters endure. In the two novels‚ “The Old Man and The Sea” and “The Road’ the authors‚ Cormac McCarthy and Ernst Hemmingway‚ explore the notion of limitless time surrounding the arduous and demanding journeys that the characters endure. It is important that we understand the interminable journey of both the old fisherman and the boy and his son. It is learnt in “The Road” that the boy is nine years old. It becomes clear through the flashbacks of the man that the boy was born at the start of the

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    The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains The Taihang and Wangwu Mountains‚ which had a periphery of seven hundred li (1) and were a hundred thousand feet high‚ originally lay south of Jizhou and north of Heyang. The Foolish Old Man of the North Mountain‚ nearly ninety years of age‚ lived behind these mountains. He was unhappy about the fact that the mountains blocked his way to the south and he had to walk round them whenever he went our or came back‚ so he called the whole family together to

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