Evaluation:
Published: 29.10.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: 5 units
References: Not used
  • Summaries, Notes 'Stylistic Devices', 1.
  • Summaries, Notes 'Stylistic Devices', 2.
  • Summaries, Notes 'Stylistic Devices', 3.
Extract

1.Oscar Wilde “Fairy Tales and Stories”. Czechoslovakia, 1980
2.Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”. Moscow, 1979
3.Virginia Woolf “Mrs Dalloway”. Penguin Group, 1996
4.James Joyce “Dubliners”. Moscow, 1982
5.“American Short Stories”, the 20th century. Moscow, 1979


Stylistic devices

Epithet
“The rich benignant cigar smoke eddied coolly down his throat.” (3, p. 63)
“The sad quiet grey – blue glow of dying day came through the window and the open door.” (4, p. 361)

Metaphor
“His heart was brimming over with happiness.” (4, p. 214)
“Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the street.” (3, p. 61)

Metonymy
“… visiting churches, and fastening one day, drinking another, devouring Shakespeare, Darwin and Bernard Show.” (3, p. 95)
“Here he opened Shakespeare once more.” (3, p. 98)…

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