A Stylistic Analysis of Edward Lurie’s Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science, written by Edward Lurie, seeks to present a bibliographical account of Agassiz’s life and hopes to display how vital his contributions were to the studies of geology, paleontology, and zoology. The book is formatted to follow a chronological timeline, making it simple for the reader to navigate through the text, and adding a sense of coherence throughout the piece. At the end of the piece
What is stylistics? In the words of Short (1996, p.1), stylistics is “an approach to the analysis of 'literary texts using linguistic description”. Stylistics, from his submission deals with how literary and non-literary texts are analyzed through linguistic tools. As observed by Short, stylistics is both relevant in studying literary and non-literary texts. To understand stylistics, it is important to eliminate the artificial separation of language and literature. McRae (1997:120) criticizes the
Arthur 1 Jorgen Arthur Musick 1 English 101 5 September 2012 Timing is Everything Tyler and I had spent our freshman through junior year in high school together. He changed my life in more ways than I could ever explain. He had a great heart, and cared for others even if he didn’t know who they were. Sometimes he cared more about people than he did himself. He was a golden child in his parent’s eyes, smart, and witty. Tyler was above anything that a teenaged girl could ask for. He was my prince-
MID-TERM STYLISTICS Liza Firsneti 0910732943 Supervisor : Laily Martin and Donny Eros 1. “Stylistics is a method of textual interpretation in which primacy of place is assigned to language.” It means that language is the most important thing one. To do stylistics is to explore language, and, more specifically, to explore creativity in language use. Doing stylistics can improve our ways of thinking about language and exploring language offers our understanding of texts. Language is so important
Stylistics can be described as the study of style of language usage in different contexts either linguistic or situational. Yet, it seems that due to the complex history and variety of investigated issues of this study it is difficult to state precisely what stylistics is, and to mark clear boundaries between it and other branches of linguistics which deal with text analysis. The primary interest of stylistics for years is the analysis of the type, fluctuation or the reason for choosing a
pages, the sports column, and the editorial section. The perspectives which express opinions of editors and reflects the viewpoint of the newspaper is one of the main important sections of newspaper . It has its own stylistic features. This paper is an attempt to study the stylistic features of perspectives in editorials. In presenting the writing style of editorials , the research is based on the perspectives from “ The New Light of Myanmar” newspaper published in English from December, 2012
The text (extract, excerpt, episode, passage, piece, paragraph) under consideration (analysis) comes from the book (novel, story, short story, tale, play, fable, poem) ... name of the work ...written by ... name of the author. *The author (writer, poet) is famous for (known as an)... a bit of infor¬mation about the author and his works, style of writing. *The extract concerns (is devoted to, deals with) ... *The basic theme is ... *The central idea finds its particularization in .../ is disclosed
Analysis of the story 'Escape' The story “The Escape” written by an English writer Somerset Maugham is under the interpretation. This is a story about common people in common situation, and Maugham manages to tell it with the sense of humour and in a very interesting way. The story has a straight line narrative structure with author’s digressions at the beginning. The author establishes realistic setting to his piece of writing. He is the observer-writer, he uses the first-person narrative
In today's army, being on time can be a paramount activity. Consequences for not showing up on time can be disasterous. In a normal job, you get up, go to work, and come home, and that is the limit of the level of involvement. The army is not one of those jobs. In the army, we are constantly training our mind and bodies for a combat environment. In such an environment, the level of involvement must be much higher. It is understood that any mistake, however seemingly small can have extreme consequences
STYLISTIC ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT: In the following stylistic analysis of Juno (Jason Reitman; 2007), I will be looking at the question; “How do the four elements of cinematic style communicate the theme of the film and influence the spectator’s responses to the story?” By looking at the film’s stylistic system, namely; the characters, editing, sound, cinematography, and mise-en-scene, I will demonstrate how the cinematic style allows the individual audience member to relate with different characters