Name: Sajid Aziz‚ Roll no: AU515926 MA TEFL‚ Course Code: 5666 Assignment no: 2‚ Spring‚ 2013 Research Project A Stylistic Analysis of the Poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” By: William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow So much depends Upon A red wheel Barrow Glazed with rain Water Beside the white Chickens Introduction Oppose practicing the learned rhetoric in poetry writing‚ Williams finds his subjects in such homely items as wheelbarrows. He believes that
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for the 4th year students COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS of Text 1 “Doctor in the House” by R.Gordon Developed and compiled by Zhikhareva N.A.‚ Bezhinar I.S. Assignments in Interpretation I. Plot and Plot structure Read more: (Borisova – pp.10-16) Study Supplement 2 and answer the following questions: 1. What type of conflict is the
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The text I decided to analyze is an advertisement taken from British edition of Cosmopolitan magazine (11/2007). The advertisement introduces new cosmetology product for men. Advertisement is a genre of newspaper style proper. Main purpose of advertisement is to sell the product and to make money. First they inform you they are introducing new product and they try to persuade you indirectly to buy it by using headline‚ emotionally colored words and syntax. In this case‚ Company Clarins promotes
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“Zombieland” is a film where a lot of stylistic choices were made. Especially the opening scene says a lot about the film and the characters. Mise-en-scene‚ cinematography‚ editing and sound shape the film’s effect on the viewer. The film begins in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. The first shot is unbalanced to prime our expectation that something will change position. The shot is of the American flag‚ which is focused while the background is unfocused which means it indicates that the flag
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some examples of houses. At the beginning of the extract the narrator introduces with the character of his friend‚ who left his bride‚ and spent a year travelling around the world‚ avoiding marriage. Describing this scene‚ the author uses such stylistic devices as hyperbole (e.g.: …nothing‚ but instant flight could help him; with a toothbrush for all his luggage)‚ metaphor (e.g.: seeing the inevitable loom). Further on‚ the author introduces to the main characters: Roger Charing and Ruth Barlow
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The scheme of stylistic analysis 1. Speak of the author in brief: • the facts of his biography relevant for his creative activities; • the epoch (historical and social background); • the literary trend he belongs to; • the main literary pieces (works). 2. Give a summary of the extract (or the story) under consideration (the gist; the content of a story in a nutshell). 3. State the problem tackled by the author. 4. Formulate the main idea conveyed by the author
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Chinua Achebe’s‚ Things Fall Apart could be considered a modern-day epic as a result of its world-renowned recognition; eight million papers in print in fifty different languages. Achebe’s main character in the novel: Okonkwo compares to the heroic figure of Odysseus‚ in Homer’s epic The Iliad. Okonkwo embodies the early ideals‚ characteristics‚ and traditions of his people and/or nation. And through Achebe’s dignified literary style‚ and use of language-Okonkwo represents the concept of self
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Stylistic analysis of the extract from “Ragtime” This novel is written by the well-known novelist E.L. Doctorow. He was born in the Bronx‚ New York City‚ the son of Rose (Levine) and David Richard Doctorow‚ second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent who named him after Edgar Allan Poe. E. L. DOCTOROW’S works of fiction include Homer & Langley‚The March‚ Billy Bathgate‚ Ragtime‚ the Book of Daniel‚ City of God‚ Welcome to Hard Times‚ Loon Lake‚ World’s Fair‚ The Waterworks‚ and All
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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 Downfall of Okonkwo Chinua Achebe feels bad for Okonkwo despite the violent acts against women and children in Things Fall Apart. Achebe believes that while Okonkwo made many impulsive decisions‚ and his vaulting ambition to be a stronger and more successful man than his father‚ Unoka‚ ever was the reason for Okonkwo’s suicide. Patrick C. Nnoromele writes in “The Plight of a Hero in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart” that the reason Okonkwo decides to take his own life is due to the role of heroism
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