Stylistics

which signal my musical growth as a performer. I am learning to add more dimension to my performances by way of practicing resonance, channeling the feeling of the song by personalizing it and relating it to my life and integrating some personal stylistic enhancements to a piece. By learning to utilize these strategies, I have noticed their impact when it comes to translating the emotion of a given song to the audience. I have also noticed that these enhancements make a performance experience…

Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms is a novel based on three generations of Japanese Canadian women: Naoe, Keiko, and Muriel, who are experiencing an identity crisis. Naoe, an elder in the home, is an anguished woman who attempts to come to terms with her immigration to Canada, while Keiko, Naoe’s daughter, struggles to assimilate into the Canadian culture leaving her Japanese heritage behind. Muriel, (Naoe refers to her as Murasaki), is Keiko’s daughter who is born in Canada. Growing up,…

A Shocking Realization What is a miracle? Must it be the product of divine intervention? Or is it simply luck? I say it is an unexplainable, unforeseeable, unexpected change of fate. John Jeremiah Sullivan explores this in his essay “Feet in Smoke”. By questioning the common belief of miracles, he demonstrates that unreal ideas effectively portray reality. Sullivan recalls the event of his brother Worth’s near death. The shocking accident and process of recovery leaves John shaken as he…

For the multimodal project, I wrote and illustrated a picture book, titled Sebastian’s Epiphany, which documents a day in the life of Sebastian, an anthropomorphized teenage mouse who is always using his smartphone. The reader follows Sebastian as he eats breakfast, attends math class, and relaxes during recess. Sebastian’s day seems like a normal teenager’s school day until the point when he walks home; he is so distracted by his phone that he does not notice that his sister is being attacked…

The picture of persuasion Vladimir Nabokov paints throughout Lolita cues the reader through its language, stylistic devices of repetition, metaphor and alliteration. This passage is no exception as the readers is thrown into a pool of ambiguity, left to their own devices and the seduction of Humbert Humbert to discern what is right or wrong? Worthy of forgiveness? Is Charlotte’s death Humbert’s fault? There are no clear answers and this is precisely what makes good literature what makes Lo lee…

Stylistics is a study centered on the language of literature. As the study of style, this approach focuses primarily on the lexical features, the elements of narration and interpretation of characters. These major elements are used to examine a literary work such as in this situation; a novel by Nick Hornby entitled About a Boy is analyzed. The study of stylistics enables reader to scrutinize a specific literary discourse to get a deep insight about the use of language in it. Therefore, the…

James Baldwin utilizes a biographical approach to reveal his personal experience of the Harlem Renaissance era and how it is has impacted his life, which allows the reader to connect and empathize with the characters throughout “Sonny’s Blues.” During this time, he struggles to understand the life of his relative, resulting in an act of selfishness and later develops into a character that becomes aware of the hardships of poverty and drug addiction, a burden that is hard to escape. This…

Tim Burton, a director for many movies. Movies such as Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. These are movies that will be us in this essay. Burton has many crazy characters. Characters that are shy, dark, crazy, and a little creepy. Some characters that he created are Edward, Mr. Wonka, and Beetlejuice. Burton’s dark style is best conveyed through his use of color, zooming, and music. One defining characteristic of Burton’s style is his use of color to devolve…

“I didn’t do that anymore, though” (Graff 1). In the book Umbrella Summer by Lisa Graff Annie, starts off in a sad and depressed mood because her older brother Jared had died recently. It is very easy to tell Annie’s mood and how she is feeling within the first couple pages because it is written in 1st person point of view and everything she says can portray a sad and even lonely part of Annie. This realistic fiction, 235 page journey leaves an emotional and funny mark in your heart as Annie…

The two text Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Band-aid for 800 children by Eli Saslow are similar but they are also very different. The common subject throughout these two text is family separation. These two text use many different similar techniques to convey their point but, they also use many different techniques to…