Berry - Literature Notes SUMMARY Berry is about a young black man called Millberry Jones who is employed at Dr. Renfield’s Home for Crippled Children. He was reluctantly employed by Mrs. Osborn‚ the housekeeper‚ because the Scandinavian kitchen boy had left without notice‚ leaving her no choice in hiring Berry. Her reluctance to hire Berry stemmed from his race‚ which initiated questions such as where he would sleep‚ as well as how the other employees would react to the presence of a Negro. She
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Lynda Hurst and Allan C. Hutchinson both have different thoughts about the topic of surrogates. Their articles consist of stylistic techniques that are used to attract readers from two dissimilar audiences: Lynda ’s audience is directed towards the average person‚ where as Allan ’s audience targets a more higher educated reader. Both authors use different types of diction‚ structure and reasoning to capture their intended audiences. Lynda and Allan both use two distinct choices of words in order
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Invisible Empire: The Power of Language and Metaphor in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities by Sara Beth Seay Departmental Honors Thesis The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga English Project Director: Dr. Gregory O’Dea Examination Date: 5 May 2007 Dr. Craig Barrow‚ Dr. Matthew Guy‚ Dr. Robert Marlowe‚ Dr. Gregory O’Dea Examining Committee Signatures: _________________________________________________________ Project Director _________________________________________________________
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Stylistics Lecture 2 Source: Halliday: ? Objectives You should be able to: 1. Define of the term stylistics 2. Explain the task of the stylistician 3. Explain the different phases of stylistic analysis 4. Explain what is involved in stylistic analysis. 5. Explain the difference between stylistics and discourse analysis Stylistics • Definition: • Halliday defines a stylistician as someone who can comprehend literary texts through a comprehension of their language structures. literary texts
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Hist 2516‚ 9:00 Dr. Babicz October 18‚ 2013 Invisible Men The Negro Leagues were one of the most important and influential movements to happen in baseball history. Without these ‘Invisible Men’‚ who knows where baseball’s racial standpoint with not only African American’s‚ but others such as Cuban‚ Dominican‚ and South American players‚ would be in the Major Leagues. Throughout the book‚ one pressing theme stays from beginning to end: Segregation. The Negro Leagues flourished from 1920 to 1951
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LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES Metaphor Genuine metaphors Trite(dead) metaphors Metonymy Metonymy Metonymy is the substitution of one word for another with which it is associated: ‘The White House said…’ (the American government) ; the press (newspapers and magazines); the cradle(infancy‚ place of origin);the grave(death); The hall applauded; The marble spoke; The kettle is boiling; I am fond of Agatha Christie; We didn’t speak because there were ears all around us; He was about a sentence away from
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What is meant by style and stylistics? Style is concerned with the artful expression of idea and stylistics is the bridge that links the idea of style to the analysis of literary texts through the tool of linguistics. The 19th century‚ that witnessed evolution in the field of biography‚ historiography‚ anthropology and others‚ could not remain unattached to immutable linguistic and stylistic norms in literature. Linguistic study was esoteric in the beginning and severely criticized as‚ "pretension
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The Invisible War Sexual assault is a horrific crime. Sexual abuse can be verbal or physical. Sexual harassment can also be a form of sexual abuse. Many people believe sexual assault should be a crime severely punished. When one examines the stories of Kori Cioca‚ Michael Matthews‚ and Hannah Sewell he realizes sexual in the military should be severely punishable. One of the first reasons sexual assault in the military should be severely punished is the story of Michael Matthew’s story. The
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unique style. Do u agree with this assesment of her poetry? Your answer should focus on both themes and stylistic features . Support your points with the aid of suitable reference to the poems you have studied. *Good Luck ;)* Elizabeth Bishop poses interesting questions delivered by means of a unique style. Do u agree with this assesment of her poetry? Your answer should focus on both themes and stylistic features . Support your points with the aid of suitable reference to the poems you have studied. *Good
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Generally speaking‚ Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea may be seen as a culmination of his long-drawn experiment spanning over 25 years and speculations towards finding out the means through which the “closed literature” can be converted into “an open one”‚ that is‚ to universalise the significance of the themes. He was very much aware of the danger in and difficulties with “closed literature” which in its factual texture‚ so lightly woven‚ presents such opacity of vision that the reader is unable
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