Composers in everyday situations use distinctively visuals through the use of elaborate techniques and complex word choice to bring the world of their work to life through the images they create. These visuals are vivid and very clear; so it helps the responder visualise the text and therefore relate to the texts and also deepens their understanding of the short stories. Two short stories composed by Henry Lawson that employ techniques and word choice to portray distinctively visuals is ‘The Drover’s
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cinema. inversion – “Back in this dim region of luxury‚ quite still except for the soft whirring of fans they could hear a tea-spoon chink…”‚ metaphor – “a voice rise above another voice and sink”‚ “a man’s face came surprisingly out of shadow”‚ metonymy – “several faces glared at them”‚ periphrases – “dim region of luxury”‚ All these devices are used to show the first impression of the main characters from the cinema and emphasize the atmosphere of the luxury. The knot of intrigue starts with Rosa’s
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Reunion by Carolyn Forche On the phonograph‚ the voice of a woman already dead for three decades‚ singing of a man who could make her do anything. -The persona is listening to something that she can relate to. -She is listening to something that makes her remember something (a man/a broken relationship) from the past. On the table‚ two fragile glasses of black wine‚ a bottle wrapped in its towel. -These three lines refers to an act of sexual intercourse. -The two fragile glasses could
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compounding 5. Shortening and abbreviation 6. Conversion. Types of conversion 7. Minor types (доп. способы) of word-building 8. The problem of meaning 9. Types of meaning 10. Change of meaning 11. Transfer of meaning (metaphor‚ metonymy) 12. Polysemy or plurality of meaning 13. Homonyms‚ classification of homonyms 14. Synonyms‚ types of synonyms 15. Antonyms 16. Phraseology 17. Borrowings in English 1. Principles of general linguistics Lexicology is
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stylistic devices in Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. First‚ we will discuss the aims of linguo-stylistics‚ we’ll give the definitions of the word ‘style’. Second‚ we will present expressive means and stylistic devices‚ such as Metaphors‚ Metonymy‚ Simile‚ Hyperboles‚ Irony‚ etc. Third‚ we will present some examples of the types of expressive means and stylistic devices from the novel
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The Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise: An Overview* Vyvyan Evans‚ Benjamin K. Bergen and Jörg Zinken [In press for 2006. To be published in ‘The Cognitive Linguistics Reader’‚ by Equinox Publishing Company] 1. Introduction Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought and practice. It is concerned with investigating the relationship between human language‚ the mind and socio-physical experience. It originally emerged in the 1970s (Fillmore 1975‚ Lakoff & Thompson 1975‚ Rosch 1975)
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the meaning behind his speech was heart warming to the community and the nation. In order to compose a great speech‚ as Obama has‚ there must be rhetorical devices. The devices that truly formed his discourse where metonymy‚ literary motif‚ repetition‚ and parallel structure. Metonymy was conveyed when he would use diction where he would not say the word ‘shooting’‚ he would say “…of these tragedies…” or “…this heinous crime...” (Obama). The reason behind this was because he did not want to mention
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his uncle Claudius‚ second that he has no one he can trust anymore and finally how can a player express a greater depth of feeling and expression for someone he does not even know. Shakespeare used many different devices ranging from antithesis‚ metonymy‚ metaphors‚ and parallel structure. The poetic structure used in the soliloquy is verse but the verse is used in a very complicated form because there are certain lines that more important than others lines in the soliloquy. The poetic devices and
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SONNET 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds‚ Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark‚ Whose worth’s unknown‚ although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool‚ though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks‚ But bears it
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narrative. The composition of the text is rather simple. The sentence structure is predominantly composite: there are both complex and compound sentences. The characterization of the personage’s image is achieved with a number stylistic devices: metonymy ( the divisional machine-guns)‚ epithets (artificial world‚ hopeless comment‚ nervous despair)‚ personification ( saxophones wailed‚ something within her was crying‚ rooms that throbbed‚ dying orchids)‚ hyperbole (a hundred pairs‚ half a dozen dates
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