Keyword: «simile»
ART 76144
Authors:
Larisa Chalova, Mihail Rymyancev
Larisa Chalova, Mihail Rymyancev
Students have trouble expressing with words read over from the lack of a specific image. Quality readable material, his insight and analysis to help the student clearly understand the essence of the stated. The de-velopment of horizons when reading domestic and foreign literature, the identification of Fi-Gur speech, their correct interpretation, create favorable conditions for the actualization of cognitive function during the learn-ing interaction.
Author:
Larisa Tatanova
Larisa Tatanova
The article deals with the characteristic features of S. Meyer’s artistic manner in her bestseller “The Host”. The novelist’s stylistic devices are viewed within the context of her imagery and themes. The writer comes to the conclusion that the novel under analysis abounds with tropes showing high expressive potential. The reader’s background knowledge must be involved the process of interpretation. Frequent use of stylistic devices based upon logical opposition typical of oratorical and belles-lettres function styles accounts for the success of the anti-utopia.
Author:
Larisa Tatanova
Larisa Tatanova
The article deals with stylistic ways of creating female characters in the classical works of W.S. Maugham and O. Wilde. The writers’ imagery is viewed within the context of motifs and themes touched upon in the novels “Theatre” and “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. Parallels are drawn between the personages of actresses introduced in Maugham and Wilde’s writing. The author comes to the conclusion that Maugham and Wilde’s characterization is based upon a frequent use of tropes showing high expressive potential.
Keywords:
metaphor, characterization, simile, stylistic device, epithet, anaphora, female character, epiphora, gradation
Author:
Larisa Tatanova
Larisa Tatanova
The article deals with the stylistic and content analysis of Bon Jovi song lyrics. A small number of most popular songs of the iconic American rock band are viewed within the context of acute social and inter-personal problems they raise and cultural associations they evoke. The role and functions of emotionally colored syntactic and lexical devices frequently used by the songwriters are also in the focus of the given paper.
Keywords:
metaphor, allusion, trope, framing, simile, stylistic device, epithet, anaphora, gradation, pun, bon jovi, syntactic repetition, anadiplosis, zeugma