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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Stylistic devices"”.
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The use of figurative language in the 21st century american literature: the case of the novel “the lucky one” by nicholas sparks /
… “The Lucky One” (2008), focusing on lexical stylistic devices and their role in shaping the narrative. Figurative language extends beyond literal meanings, evoking emotions and associations in readers through various stylistic devices such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, simile, hyperbole, …
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BECOMING INFINITE: A BAKHTINIAN CONSIDERATION OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE’S INFINITE JEST
… theories on the grotesque provides an integrated stylistic methodology that illustrates the connections between Wallace’s use of imagery and style. In view of his use of both grotesque liminal imagery and dialogized heteroglossia, Wallace’s seemingly obsessive use of language is recast as a …
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N. V. Gogol' and the Baroque (Russia)
… survey of important Baroque genres, themes, and stylistic devices. It then moves to an analysis of Gogol''s physical, familial, and educational environment in order to establish concrete links between Gogol' and Baroque culture. After this link is confirmed, a thorough examination of Gogol''s …
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Stylistic Means and Devices in Contemporary Irish Short Stories /
… is contemporary Irish short stories and the stylistics of this genre. The aim of the paper is to analyze the genre peculiarity and stylistic features of modern Irish stories. The investigation sets up the following objectives: 1. To introduce the concept and classification of stylistic means …
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Orifice of Return
… the cento, the obverse, litany, etc.) and employ stylistic devices like (direct address, song lyrics, colloquial speech and slang, etc.) These poems interrogate histories and imagine speculative futures for Black folks. They exist in lineage— familial, imagined, literary ancestral, and with the …
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Regarding Descartes' meditations as meditational
… are fairly equally divided on whether the stylistic devices employed by Descartes are philosophically important, there is general agreement that Descartes' text, at the very least, exemplifies the features of religious meditation. Building upon the efforts of previous scholarship, the focus …
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The Artistic Uses of Metaphors in Constructing Meanings and Messages in new Generation Songs in Tanzania
… seen in isolation unless it combines with other stylistic devices such as metonym, allegory, similes, synecdoche, proverb, symbolism and slang in constructing meanings and messages. Therefore, the audience comprehends meaning of a metaphor on the basis of the context of use, body of knowledge and …
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RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELLO SPAZIO E ARCHITETTURE NARRATIVE NELLA NOVELLISTICA DI SOLDATI (1959-1979)
… the solid network of narrative, rhetorical and stylistic devices that support the shaping of space and of its meanings. In Soldati’s collections space is offered in its articulate and multifaceted aspects, all of them being relevant in La Messa dei villeggianti, 55 novelle per l’inverno and its …
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Reimagining Shakespeare: A Journey through Vishal Bhardwaj's Trilogy
… cohesion through recurring thematic motifs and stylistic devices, thus forming a unified cinematic work. The research also scrutinises Bhardwaj’s positioning within the Bombay film industry, interrogating whether his adaptations adhere to or subvert conventional Bollywood tropes and stereotypes. …
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The transformations of the expression of humour in audiovisual translation /
… of humour classification and humour definition, stylistic devices which convey humour have been chosen as the object of the research since they are one of the best-defined units of humour. The aim of this research is to analyse the linguistic, extralinguistic and paralinguistic transformations of …
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Элементы яркой разговорной речи в прозе В. Шукшина
… excerption and dictionary checking), of the stylistic devices and their salient characteristics in the writings of the) Soviet author V. Shukshin.
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Ethnic Vision and Narrative Style: A Psychostylistic Analysis of Selected Works of Ramon Diaz Sanchez (Venezuela)
… The method used for the analysis is termed Psychostylistics. There are several guiding principles underlying the psychostylistic approach to literary analysis, and these are explained in detail. Essentially, Psychostylistics argues that the message of the literary work determines the means through …
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A stylistic analysis of Oshiwambo wedding songs in a book entitled Oshipapa Moonkuluhedhi by Petrus Mbenzi
The purpose of this study was to analyse the stylistic features that are employed in Oshiwambo wedding songs in Oshapapa moonkuluhedhi by Petrus Mbenzi. The data was collected through a desktop research by analysing documented wedding songs in the aforementioned book. No participants were involved …
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Crafting Prose Poetry. A Comparative Study of Alfonsina Storni’s and José Ángel Valente’s Creative Journeys
… prose poems, especially in terms of the use of stylistic devices, techniques employed and their contributions to this literary genre. The study also underscores their role as artisans of the poetic word and the new perspectives that both added to the notion of the poet, based on the flâneur …
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The Vernacularisation of Modern Neurosciences: A Case Study of Neuro-Autobiographies in The Age of Complexity
… based on discourse analysis (e.g. rhetorical and stylistic devices) to examine five self-narratives in order to identify how underlying neuroscientific concepts are entangled with personal experiences and knowledge through the use of a vernacular language. The five autobiographers are: Temple …
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Truth and Terror: a Text-Oriented Analysis of Daniel 8:9-14
… in chapter 3 examines the rhetorical and stylistic devices and their function in Dan 8:9-14, and describes the literary structure and dynamics of the passage. Stylistic and structural devices include poetic-like language in vs. 11, verbal gender shifts in vss. 9-12, the use of the key word …
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Studies in the Hellenistic Sculpture of the Island of Rhodes
… recurring technical, iconographic and stylistic traits within the Rhodian material, it may be assumed that the theory of regional schools should not be applied to Rhodes.</p> <p>One hundred and sixteen pieces of sculpture are catalogued and discussed. They consist of sculptures in the …
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The Literature of Verbal Nonsense in Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
… themselves making use of such techniques and stylistic devices as were used by Lewis Carroll in the elaboration of nonsense. They manipulate language without taking away the sense, but they make it betray its own absurdity. They present language as being powerless to set up communication …
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The Religious Paintings of Emil Nolde, 1909-1912
… and they incorporate an elaborate vocabulary of stylistic devices and motifs generally not found elsewhere in his works. Perhaps most importantly, little like them exists after the advent of modernism, with its general disdain for literary subjects. Nolde himself recognized the significance of …