to…style : metaphor The sentence “Dot’s mother never stood on anything but her active little feet The sentence “For East is East‚ West is West (Kipling)” belongs to…style: tautology The sentence “It must be delightful to find oneself in a foreign country without The sentence “It’s his Achilles heel (myth of vulnerability)” belongs to…style: allusion The sentence “May’s mother always stood on her gentility… (Dickens)” belongs The sentence “Mr. Facing – Both- Ways does not get very far in this
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Stylistic Devices 1 IMAGERY Simile (Vergleich): 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 (Metapher): A comparison between two things which are basically quite differ ent without using like or as. While a simile only says that one thing is like another‚ a metaphor says that one thing is another. (adj. metaphorical) All the
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Nadine Gordimer’s nobel prize speech To sum up the speech‚ Nadine Gordimer is saying that humans as a species are natturally inquisitive and are constantly advancing. We always want the answer to all the questions. That we have evolved to communicate to find these answers quicker. Yet we may not be able to find these answers. This is where fantasy and myth can gives us the answers to compincate for the lack of the truth. They combine what is known and what we want to know. That writing and life
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All stylistic means of the English languages can be divided into expressive means (EM) and stylistic devices (SD). “The expressive means of a language are those phonetic‚ morphological‚ word building‚ lexical‚ preseological or syntactical forms which exist in language as-a-system for the purpose of logical and various dictionaries. Among lexical EM we must mention words with emotive meanings‚ interjections‚ polysemantic words‚ vulgar words‚ slang etc. The fact that polysemantic words retain
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her husbund. He was very surprised watching the wife’s behavour‚ because he had imagined all these in other way: expected her to do something uninteresting and unattractive such as washing or sewing but not doing can-can. That’s why being with the lover he was thinking of his wife. This text touches upon the problems concerning family problems such as disloyalty. And I think it wants to provide the reader that they should be interesting and look well for their husbands and wives. These can reduce
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utilized as an interpretive device when perusing July’s People. Specifically‚ the progressing and incomplete history of articles and bodies spoken to in the novel and how these identify with whiteness and the procedure of "othering" is investigated. Besides‚ it is focused on how in the development of personality‚ dialect and exchange are major parts of a mind boggling process. At last‚ it is contended that the part of writing in this procedure is possibly liberating. Nadine
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Kazmina J. In-41 Stylistic analysis. On the day that E.M. Forster died by A.S. Byatt. The text I would like to analyze is “On the day that E.M. Forster died” written by A.S. Byatt. Dame Antonia Susan Duffy‚ DBE‚ known as A. S. Byatt is an English novelist‚ poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008‚ The Times newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. This text is social genre because the author describe social‚ professional spheres of life with the help of such vocabulary
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students to consider the way language is put to use in communication. I focused on the way that language is used in the media. Mass communication involving language in newspapers‚ magazines and the Internet. Language is used to express ideas in our everyday communication. There for I focused on how stereotypes can affect the people’s decision to travel or what they think about that country. Therefore explored the Language and how the usage of stereotypes can affect tourism and advertising.This
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FUNCTIONAL STYLISTICS Functional stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies functional varieties of the literary language determined by specific spheres and aims of communication. In modern society every person constantly finds himself in regularly recurring situations typical of the given culture‚ in which he has to play a definite social role‚ i.e. to behave according to norms accepted in the given society for such situations. One of the manifestations of a social role of
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Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary PLAN 1. Stylistic classification of the English language vocabulary. Classification criteria 2. Standard English vocabulary and its constituents. Neutral words. 3. Specific literary vocabulary. Terms‚ poetic and archaic words‚ obsolete and obsolescent words‚ literary coinages and neologisms‚ foreignisms and barbarisms 4. Specific colloquial vocabulary. Professionalisms‚ jargon and slang‚ vulgarisms and nonce-words‚ dialectisms. LITERATURE Galperin
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