Essays about: "stylistic devices"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words stylistic devices.

  1. 1. Unravelling Energy Relations between Russia and Germany : The impact of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine since 2000 on German discourse

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap

    Author : Emily Nebot Pérez; [2023]
    Keywords : German-Russian energy relations; the Russian invasion of Ukraine; energy dependency; Nord Stream; discourse analysis;

    Abstract : The invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 has greatly impacted the political environment, especially, around energy and gas imports from Russia. As a country previously highly dependent on Russian gas and the Nord Stream 2 project underway, Germany’s position is particularly interesting. READ MORE

  3. 2. An Imperfect World, Imperfectly Retold : Mimetic Uncertainty in Early, Late, and Meta-Modern Fiction

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jonathan Brott; [2020]
    Keywords : Mimetic Uncertainty; Uncertain Narration; Unreliable Narration; Realism; Modernism; Metamodernism; Reflexivity; Virginia Woolf; Tao Lin; Daniel Defoe.;

    Abstract : Proposing the concept of mimetic uncertainty, this project aims to provide a critical inquiry into the correspondence of unreliable narration and realism. Building on Springett (2013) and Olsen (2003), a distinction between narratorial unreliability and uncertainty is proposed to denote whether a narrator explicitly signals an awareness of their fallible narration. READ MORE

  4. 3. “The Lost Caviare Days” – Gastronomy and Alcoholism in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Karolina Eugenes; [2019]
    Keywords : Aesthetics; Alcoholism; Class; Drinks; Fitzgerald; Food; Gastronomy; Psychopathology; Stylistics; i Eugenes;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the portrayal of gastronomy in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. READ MORE

  5. 4. No Laughing Matter : A study of the use of comedy in public service announcements

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad

    Author : Josefin Johansson; [2017]
    Keywords : Public service announcements; Advertisements; Advertising; Semantics; Pragmatics; Ambiguity; The United Kingdom; The United States; Australia;

    Abstract : This essay is a study which is intended to explore how public service announcements in broadcast media use humour as a method of conveying their core messages in a manner which is both memorable and persuasive; to consider why humour is chosen as a strategy; and to identify the similarities and differences in the use of humour in PSAs and commercial broadcast advertising. Six video commercials were analysed in total: three PSAs and three advertisements. READ MORE

  6. 5. Pragmatics, Newspapers and Context : A Study of How British Tabloid Newspapers Construct Context

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Ninni Nilsson; [2017]
    Keywords : Newspaper articles; tabloids; pragmatics; Relevance Theory; encyclopaedic knowledge;

    Abstract : While the original focus of pragmatics was spoken conversation, this approach has been increasingly used in the analysis of written and monological texts, e.g. advertisements (Tanaka, 1994), as a means of explaining how the meanings within them are generated and recovered through context. READ MORE