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    In Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo is more successful than Doris Pilkington, the author of Rabbit-Proof Fence,in conveying the challenges faced by the main characters. Katherine Boo used the two narrative techniques, dialogue and descriptive language in her passage. Katherine Boo used descriptive language in her story which helped the readers really understand the challenges faced by the main characters. An example of Boo’s descriptive language is,”...when strapping Hindu boys began…

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    I selected "Party Time" by Tantra Bensko. The story is about Clyde Hancock's excursion into a strange l little town called Naryway, where a man skipping in the train might be caused to call the police, set the dogs loose, of even split his throat. The man send to be paid to spy on the town's inhabitants, but in this night he runs into an owl who causes an accident when it tries to fly off with him. Ultimately, Clyde is killed by the owl and it is made clear that though this sort of thing…

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    Stylistic analysis of “The Old Man and the Sea” Plot construction The plot of the novel is very strong, well-knit and well-arranged although the novel is not separated into episodes. There is a convincing opening, middle and an end. Everything is brilliantly portrayed providing the whole lot required for the attentiveness of the reader. Hemingway’s iceberg method displays in the uncommon use of dialogue tags and a plot that does not expose ample about the characters or the setting. The actual…

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    In the “All My Life” description by John Freyer, he used a combination of both objective and subjective description. Freyer chose an out of the box writing style using minimal objective details and subjective details to create short stories for his listings. Freyer lists simple facts about the items for example the Sugar Hill Gang album, “Chic's Good Times was on still on the Charts in 1979”. The simple fact describes how popular the album had been even after its creation. On the other hand,…

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    the reason why the research is needed to be conducted. Then, the specific questions of the research are formulated in the research question. Then, based on the research question, the objectives of the study are performed. They are to identify the stylistic of A.E Housman Poetry “the recruit” and to identify the issues behind “the recruit” poem. The significances of this research are clarified. The limitation of…

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    inflicted on them unknowingly. This manipulation of the mind more often than not stems from many texts where the composer promotes their biases through stylistic choices. Types of texts that do this are novels, films and cartoons and more specifically Animal Farm, The Mission, and My Dying will. A text, whether it be a novel, film or cartoon uses stylistic choices to express views on topics that revolve around cultural hegemony. Novels are a great text that when analysed closely can show the…

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    always been able to express a certain tone by his many different stylistic techniques. When watching movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, and Edward Scissorhands many stylistic techniques can be noticed. Tim burton uses stylistic techniques such as the sounds that are heard during the scene, the camera angle, and the lighting used to help portray the tone of the movie. The sound, which is a huge stylistic technique in many films, is used a lot in the beginning…

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    Stylistic Analysis of Allama Iqbal’s Shikwa Back ground: According to Bassnett and Gundy (1993) “Literature is a high pint of language practice; debatable it makes the best skill a language user can express. Anyone who wants to obtain a thoughtful knowledge of language that goes away from the useful will read literary texts in that language.” Usually, literature is look upon to be the privilege of definite people who are capable with certain ability and understanding literature. Literature is…

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    Jonathan Edwards uses stylistic devices such as similes and personification in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" to persuade his audience. Edwards uses stylistic device to get his message across and to change the mindset of the people he was giving his speech to. Jonathan Edwards implements similes in his speech to give a stronger sense of what is going on. For example he states "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present...". Here Edwards explains god's wrath…

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    closer and closer and starts to make certain doubts and problems as they fall in love. Overall throughout the movie Samantha becomes more and more lifelike.There are certain stylistic elements throughout the movie that add to the overall effect. In this paper I will use three scenes from this movie to show how certain stylistic…

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