Rhetorical Strategies and Stylistic Devices Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex. “GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE‚ COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN‚ AND WISDOM ALWAYS TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE.” (Slaughter House-Five‚60) Allusion- a brief and indirect reference to a person‚ place‚ thing or idea of historical‚ cultural‚ literary or political significance. Ex. “Canst thou draw
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Vlasenko Anna Stylistic analysis of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was an American author‚ poet‚ editor and literary critic‚ considered part of the American Romantic Movement. He was born on January 19‚ 1809‚ in Boston‚ Massachusetts. Poe’s parents died before he was three‚ and he was raised by an uncle and aunt. He published "Tamerlane and Other Poems" at 18‚ then became a magazine editor and writer in several eastern cities‚ contributing poems‚ stories and literary
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attraction to Miss Baker saying her voice "compelled [him] forward breathlessly as [he] listened"(18). The detail shows his immediate attraction right away and some sort of romantic chemistry between them. Chapter Two Fitzgerald uses many stylistic devices in chapter two‚ but the most dominant and important is the syntax. He opens the chapter describing the valley which is about half way between the West Egg and New York in a loose sentence. He says it’s a "valley of ashes" where they take
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SEMINAR III STYLISTIC LEXICOLOGY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1. Stylistic differentiation of the English Language. a) stylistic and style meaning of the word; b) types of stylistic meaning of the word: emotional evaluative expressive. Criteria for the stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary. 2. Words which have lexico-stylistic paradigm. Words which have no lexico-stylistic paradigm. 3. Stylistic functions of literary words: poetic diction archaic words barbarisms bookish
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The Analysis of The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin 1. Information about the author: Kate was formally educated at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis where she kept a commonplace book "in which the thoughtful adolescent recorded themes that appear in her later fiction‚ among them women’s roles and the conflict between desire and duty. Kate began her career as a fiction writer in 1888. The literary trend she belongs to realistic fiction. The mine literary works are "A Point at
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5. “eight dancers dressed as swans.” – Mary Cornish Numbers 6. “Always wants a hug and never gets enough”- Ronald Koertge Sidekicks 7. “whose perfume swayed in the air‚ turning the modest flowers scarlet and loose.” –Peter Meinke Love Poem 8. “Their whisper rises from beneath the stones to fuse into a single… light.” – Yves Bonnefoy Passer-By‚ These are Words… 9. “He wanted to go inside them and live.” Naomi Shihab Nye Rain 10. “But listen harder‚ use your imagination…”
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WITH LOVE… (A collection of poems) From the writer of (The Thin Line) Hadiza Bagudu Copyright © Hadiza Bagudu 2008 All Rights Reserved CHAPTER ONE LOVE RUMOR HAS IT Rumor has it That you have got a thing for me That you care But we both know that There is no smoke without fire I know you watch me Every time I walk by Without looking I can feel the smile I look your way And you tried to hide From your blushing eyes I know you are mine Your deep brown eyes And your dazzling
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Benefits And Ease of Healthy Way of Life Healthy way of life - is this something abstract and unreachable nowadays? Of course not! Healthy way of life is absolutely real and not so difficult lifestyle habits to bring in life for everyone. Certainly‚ it is not possible for every person to make his lifestyle 100% ideally healthy‚ and this is not required in most cases. But just imagine - if you will improve and make only 5 key aspects of your lifestyle healthier by only 10-20% - whith what amazing
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Poetry (>^~^)> keep out 1. Sabrina’s Corner - 2012 -Alone in a dark room‚ -Every entity has left me here. -The door is barred by a broom‚ -Belonging to the witch who sealed my fait. -Curled into a ball -Knees to my chest‚ back against the wall. -This is my only protection. -Although the only breath I hear is my own‚ -I’m reminded I’m not yet alone. -Lingering above me is the everlasting pressure‚ -That makes my body wrack with sobs. -Cut‚ it whispers‚ -The foul word drips
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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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