References: http://zackyeducations.blogspot.com/2013/01/an-analysis-of-intrinsic-elements-on-in.html http://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/world/Mr%20Know-All.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/short_story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/prose Maugham‚ Somerset. “Mr. Know All” Selected Short Stories Ed. Thakur‚ Damodar‚ Calcutta : The Macmillan Company of Calcutta.
Premium Fiction
14. Historical (diachronic) linguistics 14.1. Reasons of language change All living languages are changing in the course of time. If the evolution of some language stops on some level and doesn’t develop anymore it will become the dead language (e.g. Sanskrit‚ Latin). There are lots of reasons of language change and their difference is in between linguistic levels. For example If we consider vocabulary‚ we will convince ourselves that new things‚ objects‚ activities‚ establishments‚ ideas and
Premium English language
Stylistics‚ sometimes called linguostylistics‚ is a branch of general linguistics. It deals mainly with two interdependent tasks: a) the investigation of special language means which secure the desirable effect of the utterance(stylistics devices and expressive means) b) certain types of texts (discourse) which due to the choice and arrangement of language means are distinguished by the pragmatic aspect of the communication. (functional styles) Functional styles discusses such general linguistic
Premium Linguistics Semantics Meaning of life
THE ESSENTIALS OF STYLISCTICS The expressive means (EM) of a language are those phonetic‚ morphological‚ word-building‚ lexical‚ phraseological and syntactical forms which exist in language-as-a-system for the purpose of logical and/or emotional intensification of the utterance. Phonetic EM: pitch‚ melody‚ stress‚ pausation‚ drawling‚ whispering‚ a sing-song manner of speech (onomatopoeia‚ alliteration‚ rhyme‚ rhythm). Morphological EM: the Historical Present (the Present Indefinite instead
Premium Word Figure of speech Meaning of life
writers since 1945". The Book Miguel Street is usually treated as a “semi-autobiographical” novel by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Port of Spain‚ Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote it while employed at the BBC. Miguel Street won the 1961 Somerset Maugham Award. Narrative Structure and Style Analysis A. The whole story is separated in 17 disconnected episodes‚ each one starts a new beginning and a temporary end‚ focusing on one major character. B. The story is written primarily in the first
Free V. S. Naipaul Miguel Street William Wordsworth
A Comment on the Romanticism in Wuthering Heights Part One. Introduction The English female novelist Emily Bronte is world-renowned for her wonderful novel-Wuthering Heights. This novel is famous for its gothic style as well as its love theme‚ which attract readers in an extreme method and technique. Most of its readers intend to allocate it into “horror fiction”‚ because there are too many horrible plots and terrified atmosphere that shade its tender emotion to some degree. No one can escape
Free Wuthering Heights
In Literature The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. W. Somerset Maugham (Quotes about Poetry-Education Oasis) Poetry is the breath and soul of the literature. This magical profusion of thought and feeling-the most ancient form of expressive arts not only depicts the changing trends of time but in its very depiction
Premium Poetry
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Outside Reading Books (ORBs) & Summer Reading Instructions- 2010-2011 Patrice Norris- Instructor Email: elwyn.norris@mnps.org READ THIS HANDOUT VERY CAREFULLY BECAUSE THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE QUITE SPECIFIC Part I. All AP Literature students are required to read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. You will refer to this book throughout the year. The book is very entertaining and very informative as an introduction to
Premium Education Writing Educational psychology
Description/Synopsis: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad “V.S.” Naipaul was born in Trinidad on 17th August 1932‚ the descendant of indentured labourers shipped from India‚ this dispossessed child of the Raj has come on a long and marvellous journey. His upbringing familiarised him with every sort of deprivation‚ material and cultural. A scholarship to Oxford brought him to this country. Nothing sustained him afterwards except the determination‚ often close to despair‚ to become a writer. Against all likelihood
Premium V. S. Naipaul Man Booker Prize Miguel Street
TORTS ASSIGNMENT DONALD TRESPASS TO LAND The sub-lease grants Alexis proprietary interests‚ hence she has exclusive possession‚ and locus standi for trespass to her bedroom and communal areas: Cowell v Rosehill Racecourse (1937) 56 CLR 605 ENTERING BEDROOM‚ PLACING PLANTS ON FLOOR Presumably‚ Donald intended (Nickells v Melbourne Corporation (1938) 59 CLR 219) the direct interferences (Southport Corp v Esso Petroleum Co Ltd [1954] 2 QB 182 (‘Southport’)) of entering Alexis’s bedroom and placing
Premium Law Tort Property