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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‚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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Assignment 1 instructions The brief • Your task is to edit the accompanying text, based on copyediting that we studied in Weeks 3 and 4, and on stylistic editing that we studied in Weeks 5 and 6. • Use your class notes and the model answers posted on Cecil to help you and guide you with your work. • There are two parts to making stylistic changes in this assignment. Firstly, for each problem that you’ve identified, insert a brief comment explaining what it is, based clearly on the guidelines
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The text under analysis belongs to belle-lettres style. The sub-style is emotive prose. The biggest part of the text is the finest example of oratorical style. The extract is taken from the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The author of the novel is Harper Lee. She is an American writer. She was born in 1926 in the state of Alabama. In 1945-1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is her first novel. It received almost unanimous critical acclaim and the Pulitzer Prize
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Analysis of the text “W.S.” The text under analysis is an extract from a short story “W.S.” by Leslie Poles Hartley, a well-known British novelist and short story writer best-known for his novels which include “Eustace and Hilda” trilogy (1947) and “The Go-Between” (1953). The story “W.S.” comes from “The complete short stories” of L. P. Hartley published posthumously in 1973. The story “W.S.” is about a novelist Walter Streeter who one day gets a postcard from Forfar signed W.S. He doesn’t
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Alexander Hristov Dr. Peter Becker ENGL E-166 May 5, 2015 Literature as Art: Aesthetic Appeal in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita Close reading is the foundation of literary analysis. Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov famously noted in an interview that, “Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only re-read it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a re-reader.” Essentially, he contends that one cannot fully appreciate a book’s artistic subtleties and thematic nuances
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Holcomb. In his book, Capote describes Holcomb as a wore down, lonely little town in the middle of nowhere. There isn't much to do there and he really makes it sound like a depressing place. Capote does a very good job of including many different stylistic elements in his writing, such as imagery and tone to describe to us the dull town of Holcomb. Let's look first at the imagery in Capote's writing. When he describes Holcomb, he uses imagery to paint a clear picture about how the town looks and feels
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represented many times throughout the history of art, and two famous examples of “David” were sculpted by both Michelangelo and Bernini. When sculpting a similar subject matter, there will often be comparable characteristics, but between the different stylistic periods of the Baroque and the High Renaissance, there become noticeable aspects that differentiate them. Known as the first large marble nude to be sculpted since the classical antiquity, Michaelangelo’s "David" was completed in the High Renaissance
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Cornelia Presenting Her Children Erica Young Western Governors University March 2, 2016 Exploration of Humanities Task 2 Cornelia Presenting Her Children My initial reaction to Angelica Kauffmann paint of Cornelia Presenting her Children is that is set in the Roman times. You see a woman in an ancient Roman dress and sandals. The children, Tiberius and Gaius look as they are sneaking up on the women. The younger child looks as she is bored by the conversation happening. The visitor seems
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