Stylistics

In the opening paragraphs of the Los Angeles Notebook Joan Didion characterizes the Santa Ana winds using various stylistic elements. Her essay characterizes the Santa Ana winds as Controversial, Theoretic, and Catalytic. The stylistic elements Didion uses to convey these views are Diction, Logos, and Metaphors. Joan Didion exemplifies diction conveying the controversial characterization early on in the first paragraph of the essay with the following quote. “We know it because we feel it. The…

Samuel Johnson uses many rhetorical strategies and stylistic devices in his essay “Rambler”. Rhetorical strategies and stylistic devices can be used in many different ways to argue a point, persuade, and make something memorable. The devices and strategies that Johnson uses include appeal to logos, and high diction. The first rhetorical strategy that Johnson uses is an appeal to logos. An appeal to logos is when an author appeals to the reader’s sense of logic to make the reader see their point…

In the passage, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu utilizes rhetorical and stylistic devices to express her views about the role of knowledge in women's lives. By clearly appealing to the specific audience of her daughter and effectively manipulating diction and tone, Montagu's insistence of the necessity of knowledge for a woman to survive in the world of men is clearly conveyed. Montagu defines her purpose and caters to the specific audience of her daughter throughout the entire passage. The need for…

‘We wear the mask’ is a well-written poem about the blacks beliefs and attitudes during the Jim Crow Laws and the Harlem Renaissance. Through cleverly written lines with majestic tonality and word choice to create emotion, great stylistic choices and the socio-cultural contexts the poem conveys the intended message of highlighting the suffering that the black culture. Through these simple things, the poem engages their reader which conveys theirs and the societies values, attitudes and…

Conversation in Gender Equality, reflect the issues important to women. Differing in context, both texts present criticism of society from a female perspective, representing the oppression of women and prolonged gender inequality through language and stylistic features.…

front of various bystanders. Each individual character is also making some sort of action, whether it be trying to get the driver’s attention, shown by the letter E, or a general expression of shock and fear shown by the rest. Lastly, the major stylistic choice, the composition is heavily used within the visual and is what makes most of the appeal of the argument. As stated before, the bystanders are all arranged as a letter. From left to right, the letters QWERTY are made as two workers with…

independent spirit in life. Her purpose through the three poems is to "suggests that we all must find a balance between what we want to do and what other people expect of us" (page 417). Giovanni used specific stylistic devices in the poems and those devices contribute to the message of the poems. The stylistic devices include using only lower case letters, the lack of punctuations, there's symbolism, imagery, figurative language, tone, and theme. To start with, breaking down "Legacies" (page…

the next couple of decades. Some of these ideas become reality when they are put on paper or made into a film. Dystopian stories give readers and viewers a new perspective on the world and it is possible horrible future. There are many different stylistic elements that provide a clear view for an audience to understand what is happening in a dystopian story, but the most vital element is their interpretation of the social commentary that is presented in what they are watching or reading.…

12/19/16 Period-2 Tim Burton uses the stylistic techniques of music, lighting, and shots, to achieve the effects of mood, tone, and fantasy. He uses these techniques to create different moods of the story. One Example of the stylistic technique, Tim …

Pablo Picasso's, the Guernica is a large mural sized painting on canvas. It is a dramatic painting depicting the tragedy and suffering that war has on innocent lives. The artwork embodies the stylistic fundamentals of both cubism and surrealism. The Guernica is complicated to decipher, as the images overlap and body parts of other figures are scattered within the images. (Cubism) A fundamental principle of cubism, created by Pablo Picasso, is the use of two dimensional imaging broken…