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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for the degree of explicitness in the translated text as compared to the source text: the Explicitation Hypothesis and the Stylistic Preference Hypothesis. Both Aziz (1998) and Obeidat (1998) adopt the Stylistic Preference Hypothesis which attributes explicitness or implicitness to Stylistic preference of the target language. The Explicitation Hypothesis is shown to offer a more appropriate explanation for the way
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Students Name Instructor’s Name Course Date The theme of love in Li Qingzhao's poetry Li Qingzhao is one of the best-known poets in China and the entire Asian community who wrote several poems in the 12th century. She was born in 1084 in J’nan, Shandong province to an aristocratic and scholarly family that was dedicated to educating their daughters. Her father was a professor at the Imperial Academy and also a prose writer whereas her mother was a writer of poetry. Qingzhao acquired extensive
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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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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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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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‚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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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 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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