acquire our first words. When we speak‚ we are granted a multitude of courses for grammar and word choice. As interlocutors‚ we are constantly and actively (consciously and unconsciously) using linguistic resources to exercise stylistic variation in our speech. (Jose‚ B. Stylistic Variation‚ 2011) Consider some examples of variation. In the English language‚ there are dozens of words to describe happiness: {joy‚ jubilance‚ beatitude}. Similarly‚ there are many words analogous with the meaning of the
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MEANING FROM A STYLISTIC POINT OF VIEW In stylistics meaning assumes prime importance. Because meaning is applied not only to words‚ word-combinations‚ sentences but also to the manner of expression. At certain moment meaning was excluded from observation in language science because it was considered an extra-linguistic category. The term “semantic invariant” was proposed as a substitute for meaning by R. Jakobson. The main problem of meaning which deals with is the interrelation between
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The prose taken from The American Scholar is a descriptive prose‚ literally explaining both the physical appearance of the biggest heart in the world and the function of a heart‚ while upon further analysis‚ the readers can find more connotations to those lines that all living creatures have one thing in common: a heart that is able to experience emotions of a kind- love. The author achieves those effects through a wide range of techniques from the use of metaphor‚ sentence structure‚ and language
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those magazines all over the place. Ackley kid was always saying how he necked with one of them‚ you always knew he was lying but you went with it anyways. That kind of stuff made me sick to think about. You see it all the time‚ you always see some old man with a young girl. It’ll make you sick. I heard Ackley kid call my name so I walked over to him. I’ll admit it‚ I wasn’t too crazy about him‚ but he had his license and a car. He was a lousy guy. He really was. He was always looking for a fight like
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Good morning Mrs. Tattio‚ Mr. Ellis and students i will be speaking to you about a new hsc prescribd text Amanda lohrey’s vertigo‚ the ideas conveyed in the text are the connection to place and coping with grief and loss. Similarly‚ in my related text stolen by jane Harrison‚ I will be focusing on the protagonist‚ Ruby who was forced to work as a domestic from a young age‚ whose mental health was adversely affected by the sexual abuse of her white ‘carers’. The themes I will be discussing in this
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Introduction In this paper‚ different perspectives of the nature of poetic language will be illustrated by using a stylistic analysis of a poem‚ „Sonnet 55‟‚ written by William Shakespeare (see Appendix for full poem). In the stylistic analysis‚ the use of sound and rhythm to convey complement meaning by Shakespeare will be in focus here. Poetic function in poem Poetic language is a type of language that commonly found in poetry1. According to Jakobson (1960)‚ formalists believe poetic
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quite subjective. The description of the geographical position of the state Winnemac and its largest city makes exactly such impression. But when the reader goes on he faces really vivid examples of hyperbola‚ epithets‚ zeugma‚ metaphors and other stylistic devices. One becomes immersed in the bright‚ humorous and at the same time critical world of Sinclair Lewis. The author mocks at the weak points of education‚ at ridiculous university traditions and the life of students in general. The title
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of Studies of Stylistics and Rhetoric LIYao Abstract: Stylistics is a scientific study of style. It is a new branch of linguistics. Rhetoric is the art or science of the communication in words. In general‚ stylistics is a discipline that studies the ways in which language is used; it is a discipline that studies the styles of language in use. However‚ rhetoric is the scientific study of how language could be employed expressively and effectively in modern times. Studying stylistics and rhetoric
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Introduction The study analyses the stylistic features in the “Declaration of Conscience” by Margaret Chase Smith based on the characterized language of the public speech English. The sample is a typical political speech which possesses many stylistic features of public speech. By analyzing the stylistic effect of the sample‚ the paper also explain the function of the stylistic features. Background Margaret Chase Smith (December 14‚ 1897–May 29‚ 1995) was a Republican Senator from Maine‚ and one
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An Invisible Identity In the Invisible Man‚ Ralph Ellison’s portrayal of a nameless narrator leaves the readers with an unforgettable impression of one’s struggles with both external force- an oppressed society with unspoken "rules" and internal conflict- perception and identity. Throughout the novel‚ the narrator encounters various experiences that would change his perception‚ thus revealing the truth of his society and his self- realization of "invisibility". The narrator’s depiction first
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