1. Style and Stylistics. Language‚ speech and text. No one knows for sure what it is. The scope of problems stylistics is to solve‚ its very object and its tasks are open to discussion up to the present day‚ regardless of the fact that it goes back to ancient rhetoric and poetics. According to I.R. Galperin‚ the term STYLE is presumed (by various authors) to apply to the following fields of investigation: the aesthetic function of language; (reference to works of art‚ that is of poetry and
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"Who the hell am I?" (Ellison 386) This question puzzled the invisible man‚ the unidentified‚ anonymous narrator of Ralph Ellison’s acclaimed novel Invisible Man. Throughout the story‚ the narrator embarks on a mental and physical journey to seek what the narrator believes is "true identity‚" a belief quite mistaken‚ for he‚ although unaware of it‚ had already been inhabiting true identities all along.<br><br>The narrator’s life is filled with constant eruptions of mental traumas. The biggest psychological
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connection to a complete rebirth would be in the imagery of the invisible man waking up from the factory incident.“Mother‚ who was my mother? Mother‚ the one who screams when you suffer-but who? This was stupid‚ you always knew your mother’s name. Who was it that screamed? Mother? But the scream came from the machine. A machine my mother?... Clearly‚ I was out of my head. “ (Ellison‚ pg 240) After the factory incident the invisible man is practically given a free reset on his views in life. He experienced
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Invisible Man‚ by Ralph Ellison‚ is filled with symbols and representations of the history of African-Americans. One of the most important and prevalent of these symbols is Ellison’s representation of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute. Throughout the book Ellison provides his personal views and experiences with these subjects through the college that TIM attends‚ the college Founder‚ and Dr. Bledsoe‚ the president of the college. Ellison uses these characters and other images and scenes
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What you sacrifice in life is what you tend to value the most. In the book “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison the main character‚ who goes unnamed for the novel‚ values education‚ success‚ and the equality of the black community . how ever he chooses to suppress and sacrifice his black culture(for example their folk songs‚ slavery)‚ his old self ‚ and his family‚ in order to be successful in life. Although from all of these I believe he values more his education‚ I believe this is because in college
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Prose Reader “We Are Training Our Kids to Kill” Understanding Details 1. According to Grossman‚ the “virus of violence” is referring to the increase of murder‚ attempted murder‚ and assault rates in not only America but many places around the world. Although the population has been increasing‚ both the assault and murder rate are significantly high. Grossman quotes‚ “Today‚ both our assault rate and murder rate are at phenomenally high levels. Both are increasing worldwide” (Paragraph 6) Then
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Rochellane R. Plasabas Grade 9- Alexandrite Elements of Prose Setting: The lottery takes place at the central square. Plot: One beautiful summer day‚ Mr. Summers organize a lottery in the town. All of the people gathered at 10:00‚ with stones with them. Mr. Summers has a box with pieces of paper. Everyone’s family is written on those papers. He calls up all the men of each family to draw a piece of paper. After drawing it‚ it turns out the Hutchinson family have picked the marked piece of paper
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Lanark: Prose Commentary 1 Lanark Prose Commentary Retno Widyanti This extract from Lanark ‚written by Alasdair Gray‚ is a highly evocative piece of narrative prose. Set within a church in Lenzies‚ Glasgow‚ the excerpt illustrates the loss of love and theloss of self-belief which are inextricably intertwined for the character Duncan Thaw. Writtenin a post-modern style‚ it is also representative of the subjectivity of perception and its abilityto change with the passage of time. Duncan is forced
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The story of the Invisible Man is told from the point of view of a negro man that is completely withdrawn from society and it is one of gradual disillusionment. In Invisible Man‚ the narrator makes a complete U-turn from his naive younger self to his disillusioned older self. This drastic change can make the narrator almost be considered two different characters: the narrator at the beginning and end of the story and the young man who experiences life in the story. Representing the all-too-well known
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ENGLISH STYLISTICS G. Misikova – Linguistic stylistics I. R. Galperin- Stylistics Crystal D. and Davy D. – Investigating English Style / for non-literary styles STYLISTICS Style and Styleme Štylistika je náuka o výbere a spôsobe využívania jazykových a mimojazykových alebo umeleckých prostriedkov a postupov uplatňovaných v procese použitia komunikácie. Jazykový štýl je spôsob prejavu‚ ktorý vzniká cieľavedomým výberom‚ zákonitým usporiadaním a využitím jazykových a mimojazykových
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