character. It falls into three varieties‚ each having its own distinctive features. Unlike other formal styles‚ the publicist style has spoken varieties‚ in particular‚ the oratorical sub-style. The development of radio and television has brought into being a new spoken variety – the radio and television commentary. The other two are theessay and articles in newspapers‚ journals and magazines. The general aim of the publicist style is to exert influence on public opinion‚ to convince the reader or
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arrogant‚ cocky‚ and inconsiderate; however they can be mighty smart‚ likeable and mushy on the inside as well. They may not say it like it is. But that only means they’re not being outright rude‚ right? Which means they are considerate right? Confused? Well‚ go ahead and read why it is just awesome to date a sarcastic person. 1 Being with a Sarcastic Person Makes You Too Darn Smart There’s no two ways about this. A sarcastic person makes you think. The sarcasm may range from anything mildly
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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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comedy. In his play The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde uses dramatic irony to create humor by creating problems for characters to solve‚ promoting reactions from characters‚ and tying these problem and reactions into the resolution. In The Importance of Being Earnest the audience is aware of future conflicts and secrets between the characters before the characters themselves are. One main secret‚ that Jack is pretending to be his nonexistent bother Earnest‚ drives the play. When
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The Perks of being a Wallflower ‘’The Perks of being a Wallflower’’ was originally a book and it changed to a movie. It is written and directed by Stephen Chbosky with the actors Logan Lerman‚ Ezra Miller and Emma Watson. The context is set in 1991 in an American high school It is about a 15 year old boy named Charlie. He’s starting his freshman year of high school. He was never a popular person and didn’t have any friends but he meets step-siblings Sam and Patrick and they take Charlie under their
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International Journal of English Studies UMVERSITV OF MURCIA http://revistas.um.es/ijes The Art of Balance: A Corpus-assisted Stylistic Analysis of Woolfian Parallelism in To the Lighthouse MINGZHU ZHAO Minzu University of China Received: 5 February 2012 / Accepted: 6 July 2012 ABSTRACT This study has a two-fold objective: 1) to examine the density and variety of parallelism in Virginia Woolfs landmark novel To the Lighthouse through a sample-based comparison between this novel and other representative
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A.J. Wronski Shakespear Style Analysis Mr. Mettey English IV December 19‚ 2012 Macbeth Stylistic Devices In the play Macbeth‚ William Shakespear uses several stylistic devices. These devices help contribute meaning to the central themes of the play. One of the main devices used by Shakespear to convey the theme‚ the fall of man‚ is symbolism. Strange occurences‚ birds‚ and blood are all symbols that hlep convey this theme. The first examples of symbolism are the strange occurences
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Isolated: Being Present Without being Present Looking around me as I stand in line‚ I see people who are engrossed by their phones. At one point in my life‚ I remember talking to strangers in line and getting to know a little about them. Now‚ all I see are people who isolate themselves while trying to connect with those who are not with them. To explain how technology like social media affects relationships‚ I will use examples from the play‚ examples from my own experiences‚ and I will share how
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saw their lives so he gained a lot from his trips. Sometimes Maugham’s stories were thinly disguised episodes involving his host or others he had met on his travels-circumstances that occasionally resulted in threats and lawsuits. The text for analysis is a short story. The main character is the storyteller who speaks about events from the first person. The secondary character is a friend of the storyteller‚ we know nothing about him: his name‚ age‚ his prof‚ etc. He’s just a companion which answers
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Leadership Factories Companies differ markedly in their ability to produce future leaders‚ as several recent analyses or former employee becoming CEO of the 1‚187 largest publicly traded U.S. companies revealed. Among the CEOs in one study‚ a remarkable total of 26 once worked at General Electric (GE). However‚ as the following table shows‚ on a per employee basis‚ that ability earns GE only tenth place in terms of the likelihood of a current or former employee becoming CEO of a large company
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