Style: Text Analysis and Linguistic CriticismThis new coursebook offers teachers and students a thorough and lively guide to stylistic and critical analysis of a range of texts, both literary and non-literary, classic and contemporary. Full of examples and exercises, this is an invaluable book for all students of English language and its usage. |
Contents
Dictionary definitions of style | 1 |
WORDS | 8 |
NEW WORDS FOR | 20 |
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Activity is discussed adjectives AdvCl adverbial alliteration analysis Animal Farm assonance Barkis beats beginning berries birds Bo Bo called century chapter Commentary & Data complex sentence compound-complex connotations core vocabulary Data Book derived describe dialectal diction earth Edith Sitwell example extract formal French grammatical structure hand Hawk-eye heaven horses King James Bible language Latin lexical words lines literary look main clauses marked meaning metre metrical verse Middle English Napoleon narrative nominalisations NonfCl nouns novel off-beat Old English onomatopeia original Orwell's paragraph parody passive pattern phrases poem poetry post-modifying PrepP pronunciation prose punctuation Readability relative clause RelCI RelCl Rewrite rewritten version rhetorical rhyme rhythm rhythmic Riddley Riddley Walker rising duple Russell Hoban short simple sentences sound speech story stressed style stylistic subordinate clauses syllables thing translation unstressed syllables verbs writing