Stylistics

Luke and Acts have different authors. She designed a methodology to prove her point or at least find evidence for her argument. In stage one of her methodology, she identifies authorial passages in Luke and Acts, the second stage involves finding stylistic conventions from ancient critics on prose composition, the third and final stage involves analyzing the seams and summaries in light of prose compositional conventions. From this, she concludes that the differences of styles and seams in Luke…

What does it mean to “come of age”? To come of age is to transition from being a child to becoming an adult; going through different major milestones/phases in life. You reach an age where you change your place in society. If you are 2 years old, you don’t go to school but when you are 5, you enter elementary school, then middle school, then high school, then you go off the university, then enter to active lifestyle where you learn to depend on yourself to survive. You gain more independency as…

Broken Blossoms is a melodrama due to it’s use of visual expression, musical excess, stylistic excess, and pastel lighting, which makes it an artistic melodrama. The storyline of Broken Blossoms also uses a common feeling of sadness and fear, which can be carried toward the audience. Visual expression was used when Lucy was in fear for her…

principal practice that all people should embrace, as it develops essential skills needed in the common workplace. She achieves this task through using evidence to support her claims, reasoning to develop ideas and connect to claims and evidence, and stylistic syntax and diction to add power to the ideas expressed. Gioia sites various examples and evidence to support her claims and findings. She refers to diverse official surveys and polls throughout the passage to support her claims, connect…

new form of comedy films. It is a classic example of screwball comedies due to its basic yet cliché narrative of a rich woman meeting and being tamed by an inferior man, thus rotating around the social statuses during the economic depression. The stylistic changes made from screwball comedies (1930s) to contemporary romantic comedies (2011), are striking and can be seen by looking at Mise en Scene and the realistic factor of the narrative…

Extended Study – Connected Texts Compare the ways in which the creators of your chosen texts explored self-growth. In Markus Zusak’s novel When Dogs Cry and in Tom Hooper’s film Les Misérables, stylistic features are used to explore the theme self-growth. Both texts show the idea of self-growth in many different forms. Self-growth with help from others, self-growth due to a difficult situation and self-growth because of a change in beliefs has been explored in Zusak’s When Dogs Cry and…

way the reader perceives the novel. The American, however, is an extremely straightforward book. It is stylistically written as a dramatic love story between a French girl and an American and is told from a third person limited standpoint. Another stylistic difference is the amount of characters. In The American, there are multiple characters, settings, and events. In The Turn of the Screw though, there are only a handful of characters and it all takes place as one long narrative in a single…

Innumerable works of art found in any of the myriad ancient artistic eras have specific purposes and are created with methods common in their particular setting. Many works dated to the period of Assyrian art (1363-612 BCE) share similar patterns of stylistic execution and representative meaning. The Relief of a Winged Divinity, an Assyrian artwork found in the throne room of the Northwest Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, Iraq, presents a shallowly carved, highly detailed figure,…

The play Fences by August Wilson, and Romare Bearden’s painting Two, but not Two, both share similar stylistic devices to serve a common purpose. At the end of the play Fences, the character Rose, is talking to her son, Cory, about Troy, the protagonist in Fences. In Rose’s monologue she explains Troy’s character and how she met him. Rose’s monologue shares similarities with Romare Bearden’s painting Two, but not two. Romare Bearden, was one of Wilson’s major influences in writing along with…

During the Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo stylistic periods, there was an ever growing and evolving body of scientific knowledge. This expansion of knowledge not only impacted the scientific community, but also the artistic community. It’s also important to note that, as we learned in the readings this unit, many scientists and philosophers possessed a wide variety of talents, and were also artists. Because of this, there was a great deal of crossover between science and art. We can see this…