English Techniques Allegory Story with a double meaning: one primary (on the surface) and one secondary. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters‚ figures/ events in narrative‚ dramatic or pictorial form. Alliteration Repetition of consonants at the start of words or in a sentence or phrase. Anaphora The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Anecdote A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. Illustrate
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evaluative meaning. The context is arranged so that the qualifying word in irony reverses the direction of the evaluation‚ and the word positively charged is understood as a negative qualification and (much-much rarer) vice versa. Irony thus is a stylistic device in which the contextual evaluative meaning of a word is directly opposite to its dictionary meaning‚ So‚ like all other SDs‚ irony does not exist outside the context‚ which varies from the minimal - a word combination‚ as in J. Steinbeck’s
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Jane Doe Professor Womack ENGL 3306 23 April 2010 The Lovers’ Verse: A Stylistic Analysis Much of the verse in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is written in rhymed couplets. At one point in the dialogue between Lysander and Helena‚ however‚ the couplet form expands to a triplet‚ three rhymes in a row‚ before returning to couplets: HELENA. Yet Hermia still loves you. Then be content. LYSANDER. Content with Hermia? No! I do repent The tedious minutes I with her have spent. Not Hermia‚ but Helena
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A Man of the People By Chinua Achebe (Term paper) Rod Daniel P. Antonio II-11 BSE Major in English Ruth A. Alido Professor in Afro-Asian Literature “It didn`t matter what you knew but who you knew.” (Page 17) How far would someone go to eradicate corruption in politics? Oftentimes‚ due to ignorance we tend to believe the things that are presented to us‚ as true and valid without any hesitation whatsoever. What would be the criteria to get or to be called “A man of the people”? Is
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INTERPRETATION AND STYLISTIC ANALYSIS Introduction — The presented for interpretation and linguistic analysis short extract narrative is a brief part of/from the novel «...» of a (the) modern English/American writer — ..... or — The text passage under analysis is a short extract narrative from the novel «...» of a (the) modern English/American writer —.... I. Summary A summary is a clear concise orderly retelling of the contents of a passage or a text and is ordinarily about 1/3 or 1/4 as long as
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David and Jennifer are living in the age of negativity. The environment is going to hell‚ unemployment is going to rise‚ life just sucks in general. This doesn’t bother Jennifer‚ but David wishes his life was more like his favorite 50′s TV show‚ Pleasantville. He’s seen every episode to the point of memorization; so when a mysterious TV repairman gives him a remote that transports him and his sister‚ Jennifer‚ into the show; he’s thrilled‚ but she is not. David (now Bud) tries to get Jennifer (now
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Cat in the Rain‚ stylistic analysis Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style‚ characterized by economy and understatement‚ influenced 20th-century fiction‚ as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Many of his works are classics of American literature. It’s a third person narration text. The description is interlaced with descriptive passages
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Stylistic analysis of the extract from “HARD TIMES” by Ch. Dickens. 1. The extract under consideration comes from “Hard Times” written by Charles Dickens. The author was the well-loved and prolific British author of numerous works that are now considered classics. In a whimsical and unique fashion‚ Dickens pointed out society’s flaws in terms of its blinding greed for money and its neglect of the lower classes of society. Through his books‚ we come to understand the virtues of a loving heart and
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their judgment. Chinua Achebe highlights this idea in his novel Things Fall Apart as he describes the death of two crucial characters caused by the pride of a single man. Achebe uses the death of Ikemefuna to illustrate how Okonkwo’s pride clouds his judgment‚ causing him to make rash decisions without thinking about future consequences. During the death of Ikemefuna Achebe writes “Dazed with fear‚ Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak” (Achebe 61); showing
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Joan Didion utilizes stylistic elements such as imagery‚ diction‚ and detail throughout each of the three parts of the passage in order to convey her fear and awe of the horrendous and aberrant Santa Ana winds‚ simultaneously revealing the primal and often times violent ways man reacts to external stimuli and correcting the mistaken belief that he is not subject to the whims of nature. Didion paints through her writing the true nature of the winds. These phenomena are first introduced through words
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