wet, dripped, glisten. A rigorous analysis of the vocabulary of the story clearly shows that the writer employs common words in his narration and in dialogues he puts into the character’s mouth slang words to make them true to life. The main stylistic devices in this story are repetition (numerous repetitions of the words ‘rain’, ‘read’ and ‘like’) and symbolism. The author employs several
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Of the English Department - Lviv 2011 - Contents: 1. Introduction……………………………………………………….3-4 2. Chapter I Interconnections of the stylistic means in creating characteristics…………………………………………………….....5-7 3. Chapter II The Disintegration of the main character…………………………………………………………....8-14 4. Chapter III Versetile roles of the main character…………………………………………………………..15-17
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Figures of Speech (Stylistic Devices) What are stylistic devices? In literature and writing, a figure of speech (also called stylistic device or rhetorical device) is the use of any of a variety of techniques to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling. Sometimes a word diverges from its normal meaning, or a phrase has a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it. Examples are metaphor, simile, or personification. Stylistic devices often provide emphasis, freshness
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it’s stronger elements, brilliant character(s) and their stories. Yet his idea of the financial breakdown being told through the eyes of a mob breaking down is never fully realized. Dominik knows exactly what he is doing behind the camera, he uses stylistic choices to express not only political views but also character’s state of mind, and just like the political emphasis, the state of mind is
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The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two poems with similar names, but very different content, tone, stylistic features and didactic message. The first poem is William Wordsworth’s “The Daffodils” written in 1804. The second poem is “To Daffodils” written by Robert Herrick in 1675. Both poems are about the comparison between man and nature, in this case, it’s the daffodils, but the poems are written in a different way. The poems are very different in terms of the way daffodils affect
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themselves and therefore have trouble functioning in their own lives. These characters also have differing beliefs on the nature of their own realities and are disconnected from them. Similarly, David Fincher and Quinton Tarantino use thematic and stylistic devices to disconnect the viewer from the reality of the films’ narratives. In Reservoir Dogs, the characters are disconnected from themselves; they do not even have names. Instead, they are each assigned a color and are referred to by their colleagues
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reason for the essay is to make fun of the upper class and their insensitivity to the lower class in Ireland. Swift’s proposal was that they start eating children to help minimize poverty. Throughout the essay, Swift uses many stylistic devices to convey his point. A stylistic device that is evident is verbal irony. Most of his essay is sarcastic and intended to be taken as a joke. An example of when Swift uses verbal irony is when the text reads, “Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the
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‚The Happy Man’ The story I’m going to analyze is entitled ‘The happy man’ and it was written by Somerset Maugham, a well-known English writer. He was born on 25 of January in 1874, he was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era. Now, I’d like to give the summary of the story. At the beginning of the story the author tells us that the narrator didn’t like to give advices. The narrator thought about life and showed his attitude
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cool rushing sense of elation and freedom , scrubby range), simile (as clean as a gun-barrel, like the eagle) , personification (the sun hit them), and the whole choice of lexis and expressive means on the lexical level of stylistic analysis supported by such syntactical stylistic device as polysyndeton of the conjunction and long sentences depict a great
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the author use, are there quotations etc., does he assume a certain level of knowledge on the part of the reader? 6. You should address the question of style in a broader sense. What would the passage lose if various stylistic features were not present? Look for stylistic devices which express irony or humour - puns, word plays, syllepsis etc. - or which characterize the style of the text - literary devices such as onomatopoeia, assonance, rhyme,
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