A Stylistic Analysis of Death of a Pig In the article Death of a Pig‚ the author E. B. White recorded the last few days he spent with his young pig. This article was inspired by his real experience. After reading the whole article‚ readers can feel strongly that E. B. White didn’t treat his young pig as an animal‚ but a human‚ like a child‚ a friend or a relative. His various and accurate descriptions of the death of his young pig make readers feel that one of his family members pass away
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The Village by the Sea’ is a novel‚ which is a backdrop to the lives of the people in the village located in the western cost of India‚ Thul. It is a novel which is presented from an Indian boy‚ Hari’s point of view. The Indian culture and tradition can be seen throughout the novel. Desai uses concise descriptions to deliver the contents to the readers. Desai also uses various languages to make the novel more active. The religious aspect of the residents in Thul is introduced through
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All these devices leave a very vivid description of the students’ anticipating such an unpleasant inevitability as the exam. By means of the author’s language our imagination depicts a distinct and colorful picture proving the effectiveness of the stylistic devices in Gordon’s description. It’s hard to believe but suspense is even growing from one paragraph to another turning just an investigation of a man’s knowledge into judgment day. And to my mind this allusion is chosen nonrandom but to emphasize
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“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” The story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is about an Angel that is stumbled upon by a Columbian family after he falls from the sky because of a bad storm. He is put in a chicken coop because the family doesn’t know what to do with him and later decides to let the towns people pay to visit to see him. The townspeople see him as a great creature until a “spider woman” comes along and the townspeople loose all interest in him for
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Written by ASUMAN BİRDAL STYLISTIC ANALYSIS : “A CUP OF TEA” by K.Mansfield The common view that a literary text is likely to be comprehended better if it is studied in parallel with stylistic analysis which emphasizes the crucial role of the linguistic features of the text contributes much to the development of literary criticism. M.A.K.Halliday is one of the text linguists who sees ‘grammar’ as a network of systems of relationships which account for all the semantically relevant
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When Jade is saying how optimistic Aunt Bernie is even in the terrible situation they are living in she says‚ “Man what an optometrist.” The conversations between Min‚ the narrators sister‚ and Jade‚ their cousin‚ shows how uneducated they are and they poverty they live it. This funny exchange also serves to show the readers their lack of intelligence. When Saunders described Sea Oaks‚ the apartments where they live‚ it was very easy to picture and realize exactly how unsafe it was. Without
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Sea otters may look cute and furry from the outside but they have many attributes that help them to survive in their natural habitat. Along with being one of the smartest mammals‚ they also have finely tuned senses that help protect them and help them hunt. Their cute and furry appearance is not deception‚ despite living in the wild‚ they are very social and often swim along side boats and scuba divers. This became very dangerous when poachers realized the value of their pelts‚ and sea otters were
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o’er the wrinkled blue Lo! the sea is fair‚ Smooth as the flow of a maiden’s hair; And the welkin’s light shines through Into mid-sea caverns of beryl hue‚ And the little waves laugh and the mermaids sing‚ And the sea is a beautiful‚ sinuous thing! I scowl in sullen guise The sea grows dark and dun‚ The swift clouds hide the sun But not the bale-light in my eyes‚ And the frightened wind as it flies Ruffles the billows with stormy wing‚ And the sea is a terrible‚ treacherous thing
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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
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SEA-FEVER BY JOHN MASEFIELD The poem Sea-Fever by John Masefield‚ depicts a sense of urgency to return to the sea. The persona hears the call of the sea and it is a must to answer the call; it is an irresistible invitation to adventure‚ exploration and freedom. The persona is longing to go back to the sea and he wishes for the simplicity of life on the sea and a sense of freedom. His extremely simple desires suggest that he wants to renounce all the usual entrapments of everyday life and
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