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    Theme and Narrative Elements in the Short Story ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor: Loretta Crosson In the short story Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer is discuss the Apartheid in South Africa where two young people fell in love. This was a forbidden love. The black woman Thebedi‚ and Paulus the son of her white masters took a chance on love and engaged in a sexual relationship which lead to Thebedi getting pregnant. Paulus then leave for veterinary college not knowing that Thebedi

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    Alliteration 1. Is derived from Latin’s “Latira”. It means “letters of alphabet”. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words‚ having the same first consonant sound‚ occur close together in a series. 2. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse. Around the rock the ragged rascal ran. But a better butter makes a batter better. A big bully beats a baby boy. Park Place. Mary marveled at the magnificent monument. Anadiplosis The term anadiplosis

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    What is meant by style and stylistics? Style is concerned with the artful expression of idea and stylistics is the bridge that links the idea of style to the analysis of literary texts through the tool of linguistics. The 19th century‚ that witnessed evolution in the field of biography‚ historiography‚ anthropology and others‚ could not remain unattached to immutable linguistic and stylistic norms in literature. Linguistic study was esoteric in the beginning and severely criticized as‚ "pretension

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    STYLISTICS In Stylistics Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. The book includes examples of poems‚ plays and novels from Shakespeare to the present day. This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates explains the terminology of literary form‚ considers the role of stylistics in twentieth-century criticism‚ and shows‚ with worked examples‚ how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth century. This

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    overly cautious‚ to the point where it causes harm. In Nadine Gordimer’s novel “Once Upon a Time” a family builds a barbed wire wall because they are so afraid of the robberies and the boy decides to explore the fence and dies from being shredded by the wire “(the boy) dragged a ladder to the wall‚ the shining coiled tunnel...with the first fixing of its razor-teeth in his knees and hands and head he… struggled deeper into its tangle.” (Gordimer‚ 6 ). The family built the fence to protect themselves

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    treason to1.my country and hope that she‚ my other‚ dearest love will pardon freely‚ not attaching blame being your mistress (or your match) in tenderness. | LITERAL MEANING The persona reflects on the image of some-one he cares for. This love interest accused him‚ with their eyes‚ of breaking their heart. The persona admits that both of them (he and the love interest) can make no excuses for his behavior because the love interest does not take precedence over his land‚ or country. Despite this

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    tension. In the poem ‘The Highwayman’ he uses many sound devices to create this tension. Another thing that creates the tension in the poem is the punctuation‚ how he is making you read the poem. Some examples of sound devices that he uses are alliteration‚ onimonipea‚ consonance‚ rhythm‚ and assonance. He creates many examples of these four sound devices in his work to create a very clear mood of tension. Alfred Noyes uses many sound devices

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    I am going to show that the whole piece is aimed at entertaining the reader. Writers use different stylistic devices to create humorous effect. There are many comic effects used in this extract Dominant prose systems in this story are narrative and interior monologue‚ which overlap and go together t(he story is told by the 2 people simultaneously) The author uses this strategy not only to reveal character’s personality‚ but also to break the monotony‚ to create humorous effect. General tone of

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    One of the things that makes Shakespeare’s writing so famous is all of the literary devices he adds in. One of the many devices found is found Act 2 scene 2. At this point in the play‚ Macbeth has just killed King Duncan and is talking to his wife‚ Lady Macbeth about it. Macbeth is very paranoid and freaking out because he suddenly hears a strange knocking‚ but his hands are still covered in blood. This is where a hyperbole comes in and Macbeth says “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

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    the writer has used semantic deviation ─ the use of the adverb ‘hastily’ and the verb ‘runs’ indicates movement. It is used here as personification to show the reader that the road is trying to get away from something. Next‚ is the phrase ‘shrink away’‚ which is used to indicate how humans or animals hide away from someone or something they fear. Although‚ this passage is not verse‚ there is phonological parallelism as rhythm and meter‚ because of identical phrase structure and what comes to mind

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