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    Kazmina J. In-41 Stylistic analysis. On the day that E.M. Forster died by A.S. Byatt. The text I would like to analyze is “On the day that E.M. Forster died” written by A.S. Byatt. Dame Antonia Susan Duffy‚ DBE‚ known as A. S. Byatt is an English novelist‚ poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008‚ The Times newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. This text is social genre because the author describe social‚ professional spheres of life with the help of such vocabulary

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    CHAPTER 2. Peculiarities of translation of stylistic devices in the short stories by E.A.Poe 2.1. Main characteristics of translation of stylistic devices 2.1. Reproduction of simile in the short stories by E.A.Poe 2.2. Reproduction of metaphor in the short stories by E.A.Poe 2.3. Reproduction of epithets in the short stories by E.A.Poe 1.3.1. Simile . According to K. Ya. Lotots’ka simile is an imaginative comparison which is also called literary comparison.[27‚ p

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    All stylistic means of the English languages can be divided into expressive means (EM) and stylistic devices (SD). “The expressive means of a language are those phonetic‚ morphological‚ word building‚ lexical‚ preseological or syntactical forms which exist in language as-a-system for the purpose of logical and various dictionaries. Among lexical EM we must mention words with emotive meanings‚ interjections‚ polysemantic words‚ vulgar words‚ slang etc. The fact that polysemantic words retain

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    historical and platonic standpoint he gives an accurate representation of how it works. Whereas in the novel Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe chronicles the life and times of an African family located in the lower Niger. The head of the family‚ which the story mostly follows‚ is highly respected by his fellow tribesman for his brute strength and warrior mentality. Achebe tells the story as if he is an all-knowing elder from the tribe‚ which makes it quite natural for the reader to become emotionally

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    Stylistic Analysis on Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Background of the Poem Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese is a love poem in a sonnet form. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote this poem in secret when she was being courted by her then husband-to-be‚ Robert Browning. She wrote a series of 44 sonnets and sonnet 43 became the most famous. These series of poems were published in 1850. The poems express her intense and undying love for Robert

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    Stylistic Devices 1 IMAGERY Simile  (Vergleich): An explicit comparison between two things which are basically quite different using words such as like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. (Wordsworth) Metaphor  (Metapher): A comparison between two things which are basically quite differ­ ent without using like or as. While a simile only says that one thing is like another‚ a metaphor says that one thing is another. (adj. metaphorical) All the

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    STYLISTIC LEXICOLOGY

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    Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary PLAN 1. Stylistic classification of the English language vocabulary. Classification criteria 2. Standard English vocabulary and its constituents. Neutral words. 3. Specific literary vocabulary. Terms‚ poetic and archaic words‚ obsolete and obsolescent words‚ literary coinages and neologisms‚ foreignisms and barbarisms 4. Specific colloquial vocabulary. Professionalisms‚ jargon and slang‚ vulgarisms and nonce-words‚ dialectisms. LITERATURE Galperin

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    papers of the Pickwick club (Dickens) ” belongs to…style: alliteration The sentence “The camp‚ the pulpit and the low For rich man’s sons are free” The sentence “The cock is covering‚ the stream is flowing ” belongs to…style: parallelism The stylistic device in the sentence "There was a town down there‚ as flat as a flannel- The word-combinations “peopled desert‚ populous solitude‚ proud humility ” to…style : zeugma What is slang word?

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    Stylistic Analysis of “ I Have A Dream” “All the fun is in how you say a thing.” Robert Frost’s words give us a perfect explanation about why the style is so important in an article. According to Alan Warner‚ style is a way of writing‚ a manner of expressing one’s thoughts and feelings in words. A same meaning can have different effects on its readers by being put in different ways. This article is to take the famous speech of Martin Luther King as an example to analyze and discuss its stylistic

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    The main themes in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe are the language – which is a sign of cultural differences - and the conflict between the Ibo people’s culture‚ traditions‚ what they are used to and the changes that are taking place. Through language‚ Achebe illustrates that Africa is not as backward and uninteresting as many Colonial writers presented it. He shows us the originality and formality of the language of the Ibo. By the addition of translations of proverbs‚ stories and songs from

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