Dorian Gray‚" one of the most noticeable and important motifs is that of the color white and its variants‚ including‚ but not limited to‚ pale and listless. The meaning of this color evolves as the novel progresses‚ changing in relation to Dorian’s character. While the motif may never physically alter in appearance‚ it succeeds in reversing meaning completely‚ signifying the great contrast in Dorian’s soul between the beginning of the novel and the end. In the very beginning of the novel‚ as Basil speaks
Premium White Meaning of life The Picture of Dorian Gray
Student number: 12056010 A Stylistic Analysis of « the lost baby poem » by Lucille Clifton In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself. In this poem Lucille Clifton is telling the experience she had when she had an
Premium Madrid Metro Metropolitana di Napoli Osaka Municipal Subway
Stylistic Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Speech Abstract Higher level English learners always pay attention to English public speech‚ especially those inaugural speeches. They take them as fine literary efforts and good analysis material. This paper tries to give an analysis of Obama’s inaugural speech from stylistic perspective‚ in order to help to better appreciate Obama’s presentation skills. Keywords: stylistics‚ syntactic‚ lexics‚ rhetoric Barack Hussein Obama was elected to be the forty-fourth
Premium Question Rhetoric Sentence
F. Scott Fitzgerald Born in St. Paul‚ Minnesota‚ on September 24‚ 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald was the son of Edward Fitzgerald‚ who worked for Proctor and Gamble and brought his family to Buffalo and Syracuse‚ New York‚ for most of his son’s first decade. Edward Fitzgerald’s great-great-grandfather was the brother of the grandfather of Francis Scott Key‚ who wrote the poem “The Star-Spangled Banner.” This fact was of great significance to Mrs. Fitzgerald‚ Mollie McQuillan‚ and later to Scott. Mollie
Premium F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Stylistic Features Wuthering Heights‚ the creation of Emily Jane Bronte‚ depicts not a fantasy realm or the depths of hell. The novel focuses on two main character’s battle with the restrictions of Victorian Society. Wuthering Heights is in the same ethical and moral tradition as the other great Victorian novels. Wuthering Heights was written and published ten years after Victoria’s accession and almost at the end of a decade in which fiction for the first time in its history
Premium Wuthering Heights Social class
Its coherent and logical syntactic structure‚ with an expanded system of connectives and its careful paragraphing‚ makes it similar to scientific prose. Its emotional appeal is generally achieved by the use of words with emotive meaning‚ the use of imagery and other stylistic devices as in emotive prose. The publicistic style also has some elements of emotionally coloured colloquial style as the author has no need to make their speech impersonal (as in scientific or official style)‚ but‚
Premium Public speaking Oratory Rhetoric
Samuel Beckett explores the purposelessness of life‚ lack of meaning and memory in Waiting for Godot. Aspects such as repetition‚ change‚ recognition‚ blind faith‚ silences and pauses illustrated the forgetfulness and purposelessness of the lives of Vladimir and Estragon. ‘Waiting’ is doing both something and nothing simultaneously; Vladimir and Estragon recognize this which is why they are in search for something to ‘do’. VLADIMIR: We are happy. ESTRAGON: We are happy. (Silence.) What do
Premium Waiting for Godot Meaning of life Lucky
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. I．Abstract: When I read it i think‚ all things are related to other things‚ interconnected‚ so that nothing stands alone. The objects depend upon each other to provide this vivid scene‚ alone they are commonplace‚ together they speak volumes. I think of the poem as a painting‚ by a modern artist‚ where choice of colour and shape and texture together
Free William Carlos Williams Poetry Word
A.J. Wronski Shakespear Style Analysis Mr. Mettey English IV December 19‚ 2012 Macbeth Stylistic Devices In the play Macbeth‚ William Shakespear uses several stylistic devices. These devices help contribute meaning to the central themes of the play. One of the main devices used by Shakespear to convey the theme‚ the fall of man‚ is symbolism. Strange occurences‚ birds‚ and blood are all symbols that hlep convey this theme. The first examples of symbolism are the strange occurences
Premium
Denotative Meaning: Conceptual meaning is also called logical or cognitive meaning. It is the basic propositional meaning which corresponds to the primary dictionary definition. Such a meaning is stylistically neutral and objective as opposed to other kinds of associative meanings. Conceptual Meanings are the essential or core meaning while other six types are the peripheral. It is peripheral in as sense that it is non-essential. They are stylistically marked and subjective kind of meanings. Leech
Premium Semantics