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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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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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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3. Stylistic Analysis As long as a language is produced from a human being‚ it inevitably reflects its speaker’s background (e.g.‚ their birth‚ their generation‚ or their social class). Even if they use the same language such as English‚ Asians may hardly speak or write in the way British do. That being so‚ given the exceptional roots of Ishiguro as an English-language writer‚ it seems fairly understandable for many critics to assume that this idiosyncrasy (i.e.‚ some remnants of Japan)‚ more or
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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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List all of the noun phrases in the passage‚ including the pronouns. After you have studied the list write an essay on how the noun phrases contribute to the text. How do they relate to what is being described in the extract? In Lindsey Davis’s Ode to a Banker‚ there are many uses of the noun phrase. The noun phrase is a phrase that contains a noun as well as other constituents (Yule 2010‚ p291). The noun can stand on its own as the noun phrase or include the use of articles and modifiers to enhance
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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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------------------------------------------------- Student`s Individual Work №1 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Stylistic device (see the lecture №3) Simile 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 A comparison between two things which are basically quite different without using
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