Lexical Stylistic Devices:
Lecturer’s comments
Examples of stylistic devices
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Bathos
“Groceries, baby, listen your friend Richard. You go set your
lily-white ass down in that meditation cave every day for the
next three months and I promise you this—you’re going to start
seeing some stuff that’s so damn beautiful it’ll make you wanna
throw rocks at the Taj Mahal.”
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p.55
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Metaphor
She was so dynamic, this woman—so Brazilian. She was
gorgeous, elegantly dressed….
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p. 284
“I see marriage as an operation that sews two people together,
and divorce is a kind of amputation that can take a long time to
heal. The longer you were married, or the rougher the
amputation, the harder it is to recover.”
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p. 197
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Metonymy
“You’ve helped me a lot,” I told him. “I think of you as an angel
with hairy hands and cruddy toenails.”
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that’s when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with
this last compassionate, unspoken message
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p217
I close my eyes and let the mantra come. I climb down that
ladder into my own hub of stillness.
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p. 227
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Irony
One London touring club was actually called “The Society of
Dilettanti”—imagine advertising that you’re a dilettante! Oh,
the glorious shamelessness of it . . .
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p. 86
“Groceries, baby, listen your friend Richard. You go set your
lily-white ass down in that meditation cave every day for the
next three months and I promise you this—you’re going to start
seeing some stuff that’s so damn beautiful it’ll make you wanna
throw rocks at the Taj Mahal.”
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p.55
Having lost my voice somewhere between the couch and
the bed, I only nodded. There was nothing left to say. It
had been a long, austere season of solitude. I had done well
for my self. But Felipe was right—that was enough.
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p.309
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Polysemantic Effect
He said, “Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a
poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal
anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you
cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is
made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both
equally true.
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p.155
But suddenly it was like a lion was roaring from within my
chest, drowning all this claptrap out. A voice bellowed in me
like nothing I had ever heard before.
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p.169
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Zeugma
Eat, pray, love: one woman’s search for everything across Italy,
India and Indonesia
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p.3
They weren’t even ex spouses, not an obstinate midwesterner
and a high-strung Yankee, not a guy in his forties and a woman
in her thirties, not two limited people who had argued for years
about sex and money and furniture—none of this was relevant.
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p.200
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Pun
The depth of my relief—it’s hard to explain. It
takes even me by surprise. It’s like this—it’s like I was in a car
accident, and my car went over a bridge and sank to the
bottom of a river and I’d somehow managed to free myself
from the sunken car by swimming through an open window
and then I’d been frog-kicking and strug gling to swim all the
way up to the daylight through the cold, green water and I was
almost out of oxygen and the arteries were bursting out of my
neck and my cheeks were packed with my last breath and
then—GASP!
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p.240
In the evenings there’s a cricket or chestra with frogs providing
the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how
misunderstood they are.
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p.254
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Epithet
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a
bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the
woman I might become if I’m not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz
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p.108
And how much can an outsider like me ever learn of the hidden
stresses that might loiter behind those “shining faces”?
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p.257
I don’t know how long I hovered in this magnificent ether of
union before I had a sudden urgent thought: “I want to hold on
to this experience forever!” And that’s when I started to
tumble out of it. Just those two little words—I want!—and I
began to slide back to earth. Then my mind started to really
protest—No! I don’t want to leave here!—and I slid further still.
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p.216
In the figurative sense, this is a border that is al ways moving—
as you advance forward in your studies and realizations, that
mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet
ahead of you, so you have to travel light in order to keep
following it. You have to stay mobile, movable, supple
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p.221
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Oxymoron
Also, I had one artichoke, just to try it; the Romans are awfully
proud of their artichokes.
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p.47
This stuff can be painful, but it’s awfully beneficial.”
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p.175
But it was pure, this love that I was feeling. It was godly. I
looked around the darkened val ley and I could see nothing
that was not God. I felt so deeply, terribly happy.
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p.220
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Antonomasia
I start walking south again. I pass the Palazzo Borghese, a
building that has known many
famous tenants, including Pauline, Napoleon’s scandalous
sister, who kept untold numbers of
lovers there.
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love [EnglishOnlineClub.com].pdf
p.87
You may use your Yoga—your discip lined practices of sacred
union—to get closer to Krishna, Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha or
Yahweh. During my time at the Ashram, I met devotees who
identified themselves as practicing Christians, Jews, Buddhists,
Hindus and even Muslims.
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p.132
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Simile
In any case, every japa mala has a special, extra bead—the
109th bead—which dangles outside that balanced circle of 108
like a pendant. I used to think the 109th bead was an
emergency spare, like the extra button on a fancy sweater, or
the youngest son in a royal family.
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p.14
Okay, maybe, she concedes, smiling only slightly. Maybe you do
look a little like a buffalo mozzarella . . .
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p.124
This is a sweet expression. Bel far niente means “the beauty of
doing nothing.” Now listen—Italians have traditionally always
been hard workers, especially those long-suffering laborers
known as braccianti (so called because they had nothing but
the brute strength of their arms—braccie—to help them
survive in this world).
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p.243
Most mornings, David would wake to find me sleeping fitfully
on the floor beside his bed, huddled on a pile of bathroom
towels, like a dog. “What happened now?” he would ask—
another man thoroughly exhausted by me. I think I lost
something like thirty pounds during that time.
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p.31
We create words to define our experience and those words
bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a
leash.
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p.345
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Periphrasis
The Australian aborigines describe a serpent in the sky that
descends into the medicine man and gives him intense,
otherworldly powers.
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p.154
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Euphemism
“You gotta learn how to let go, Groceries. Otherwise you’re
gonna make yourself sick. Never gonna have a good night’s
sleep again. You’ll just toss and turn forever, beatin’ on yourself
for being such a fiasco in life. What’s wrong with me? How
come I screw up all my re lationships? Why am I such a failure?
Lemme guess—that’s probably what you were up at all hours
doin’ to yourself again last night.
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p.162
Americans spend billions to keep themselves amused with
everything from porn to theme parks to wars, but that’s not
exactly the same thing as quiet enjoyment.
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p.74
And I was flirting! I hadn’t flirted in ages. I’d only been hanging
around with monks and medicine men lately, but suddenly I
was dusting off the old sexuality again
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Hyperbole
Everyone else sits in the chant huddled in wool blankets and
hats to stay warm, and I’m peeling layers off myself as the
hymn drones on, foaming like an overworked farm horse.
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p.174
Most mornings, David would wake to find me sleeping fitfully
on the floor beside his bed, huddled on a pile of bathroom
towels, like a dog.
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p.30
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Proverbs and Sayings
As one young Indian girl told me, “Everybody in India almost
has a Guru!” I know what she meant to say (that almost
everyone in India has a Guru) but I related more to her
unintentional statement, because that’s how I feel
sometimes—like I almost have a Guru.
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p. 135
God only knows what the year might contain, but now it is
here, and we are all beneath it.
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p. 140
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Epigram
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Quotation
And then Richard spoke again, snapping my thoughts back
quickly to the world’s more ba sic realities: “After all, baby,
remember what they say—sometimes the best way to get over
someone is to get under someone else.
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p. 203
He said, “We’ll see each other again when they”—pointing to
the gods up in the sky—“say so.”
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p. 287
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Allusion
I drank enough of that damn Saint-John’s-wort tea to cheer up
whole a Russian gulag, to no noticeable effect.
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p. 63
Culturally, though not theologically, I’m a Christian. I was born
a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I
do love that great teacher of peace who was called Jesus, and
while I do reserve the right to ask myself in certain trying
situations what indeed He would do, I can’t swallow that one
fixed rule of Christianity insisting that Christ is the only path to
God
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p. 23
…fresh, sheets of pasta folded ravioli-like into the shape (if not
exactly the size) of the pope’s hat, stuffed with a hot, aromatic
puree of crus taceans and octopus and squid, served tossed
like a hot salad with fresh cockles and strips of julienned
vegetables, all swimming in an olivey, oceany broth. Followed
by the rabbit.
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p. 126
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Decomposition of a set phrase
Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to
somebody, true enough—but to morrow I could be a fireworks
depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum,
one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of
transformation.
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p. 88
You might just as well hang it up and kiss God good-bye if you
really need to keep blaming somebody else for your own life’s
limitations.
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p. 199
Be very careful, warns this tale, not to get too obsessed with
the repetition of religious ritual just for its own sake.
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Syntactic Stylistic Devices:
Lecturer’s comments
Examples of stylistic devices
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Stylistic Inversion
Modifier and predicative before the subject
Then came the most difficult part.
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Detached Structure
I took off at a run, galloping away from the path and down into
the meadow, just tearing across that moonlit path of grass.
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p. 219
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Parallel Structures
Would you kindly turn yourself inside out, so that your lungs
and heart and offal will be on the outside and the whole
universe will be on the inside?
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p. 170
Luca had been worried about how the conversation would
proceed tonight, given that half the guests can’t speak English
and the other half can’t speak Italian (and only Sofie can speak
Swedish), but it seems to be one of those miracle evenings
where everyone can understand each other perfectly, or at
least your neighbor can help translate when the odd word gets
lost.
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p. 121
He liked my body, he told me, after the initial viewing at the
beach. He told me that Brazili ans have a term for exactly my
kind of body (of course they do), which is magra-falsa,
trans lating as “fake thin,” meaning that the woman looks
slender enough from a distance, but when you get up close,
you can see that she’s actually quite round and fleshy, which
Brazilians con sider a good thing.
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p. 304
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Chiasmus
And then we could spend our lives together—in misery, but
happy to not be apart.”
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p. 95
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Repetition
Epiphoric repetition
But still humans must try to love each other, darling. We must
get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a
broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” I said,
“My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn’t
that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a
love story ends?” “Darling, I’m southern Brazilian. I can keep a
broken heart going for ten years over a wo man I never even
kissed.”
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p. 297
The question was—would he sign? More weeks passed as he
contested more details.
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p. 42
. When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely, Liz
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p. 72
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Enumeration
If he loses that balance, he loses his power. It’s not a ludicrous
hypothesis, therefore, to say that the Balinese are the global
masters of balance, the people for whom the maintenance of
perfect equilibrium is an art, a science and a religion.
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p. 245
Even if you are eighty years old, or a lesbian, or a strident
feminist, or a nun, or an eighty year-old strident feminist
lesbian nun who has never been married and never intends to
get married, the politest possible answer is still: “Not yet.”
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p. 246
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Suspense
Ketut just had a secret hidden master plan, because it was my
banged-up knee that allowed
me, in the end, to meet Wayan. And from that meeting,
everything that was meant to happen .. . happened.
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p. 273
Why
am I so agitated? I had a nice night, didn’t I? I got to meet some
interesting people, got to
dress up and dance around, had flirted with some men . . .
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Climax (Gradation)
logical
Then I said to my mind, “Show me your anger now.” One by
one, my life’s every incident of anger rose and made itself
known. Every injustice, every betrayal, every loss, every rage.
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p. 347
Emotional
I think of everything I endured before getting here and wonder
if it was me—I mean, this happy and balanced me, who is now
dozing on the deck of this small Indonesian fishing boat—who
pulled the other, younger, more confused and more struggling
me forward during all those hard years.
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p. 349
Emotional
I couldn’t even touch this food because it was such a
masterpiece
of lunch, a true expression of the art of making something out
of nothing.
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p. 77
Emotional
It was my Guru’s own master—a great charismatic Yogi I will
refer to here only as “Swamiji” (which is Sanskrit for “beloved
monk”).
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p. 156
Quantitative
There are ceremonies here which must be performed five times
a day and others that must be performed once a day, once a
week, once a month, once a year, once every ten years, once
every hundred years, once every thousand years.
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p. 244
say the mantra to myself once very slowly and deliberately,
syllable by syllable.
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p. 130
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Antithesis
She was gorgeous, elegantly dressed, charismatic and engaging
and indeterminate in age, just insistently sexy.
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p. 284
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Asyndeton
hen I told him that I’d recently spent four months in Italy, he
found this fact so stu pendously amazing that he came out
from behind his desk and said, “Come, sit, talk.” I came, I sat,
we talked. And that’s how we became friends.
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p. 238
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Polysyndeton
So I describe the picture he had made for me, the figure with
the four legs (“so grounded on earth”) and the missing head
(“not looking at the world through the intellect”) and the face
in the heart (“looking at the world through the heart”) and he
listens to me politely, with mod est interest, like we’re
discussing somebody else’s life entirely.
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p. 239
Rice terraces require an unbeliev able amount of shared labor,
maintenance and engineering in order to prosper, so each
Balinese village has a banjar—a united organization of citizens
who administer, through consensus, the village’s political and
economic and religious and agricultural decisions.
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p. 243
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Gap-Sentence Link
They might all go out dancing later, too. She doesn’t know if I
like parties, but . . . Cocktails? Dancing? Piles of pork?
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p. 285
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Ellipsis
It had been so long since I’d been in a bar. Even in Italy I didn’t
go to bars, and I hadn’t been out much during the David years,
either. I think the last time I’d gone dancing was back when I
was married . . . back when I was happily married, come to
think of it.
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p. 287
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Break-in-the-Narrative
Ketut waved before the child samples of food, fruit, flowers,
water, bells, a wing from the roast chicken, a bit of pork, a
cracked coconut . . . With each new item he would sing
something to her. The baby would laugh and clap her hands,
and Ketut would laugh and keep singing.
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p. 337
She stalls some more, then changes her story again. This
morning, she says, the farmer called to tell her he isn’t certain
anymore whether he can sell only the two-aro parcel to her;
instead, he might want to sell the whole seven-aro lot intact . . .
it’s his wife that’s the problem . . . The farmer needs to talk to
his wife, see if it’s OK with her to break up the land . . .
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Question-in-the-Narrative
Then Wayan, whose eyes are not exactly meeting mine
anymore, crochets a complicated story. She tells me that she
visited a mystic the other day and the mystic went into a trance
and said that Wayan absolutely needs to buy this entire sevenaro package in order to make a good healing center . . . that
this is destiny . . . and, anyway, the mystic also said that if
Wayan could have the entire package of land, then maybe she
could someday build a nice fancy hotel there . . . A nice fancy
hotel? Ah. That’s when suddenly I go deaf and the birds stop
singing and I can see Wayan’s mouth moving but I’m not
listening to her anymore because a thought has just come,
scrawled blatantly across my mind: SHE’S FUCKING WITH YOU,
GROCERIES.
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p. 340
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Represented Speech
“Per chi???” the fan had shouted in near-madness. “Per chi???”
For WHOM??? For whom are you passing this ball, Albertini?
Nobody’s there! Out on the street after my delirious hours of
lingerie shopping, I remembered this line and repeated it to
myself in a whisper: “Per chi?” For whom, Liz? For whom all
this decadent sexiness? Nobody’s there. I had only a few weeks
left in Italy and absolutely no intention of knocking boots with
anyone. Or did I? Had I finally been affected by the word on the
streets in Rome? Was this some final effort to become Italian?
Was this a gift to myself, or was it a gift for some as yet not
even imagined lov er? Was this an attempt to start healing my
libido after the sexual self-confidence disaster of my last
relationship? I asked myself, “You gonna bring all this stuff to
India?
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Rhetorical Question
For whom, Liz? For whom all this decadent sexiness? Nobody’s
there. I had only a few weeks left in Italy and absolutely no
intention of knocking boots with anyone. Or did I? Had I
finally been affected by the word on the streets in Rome? Was
this some final effort to beсome Italian? Was this a gift to
myself, or was it a gift for some as yet not even imagined lover?
Was this an attempt to start healing my libido after the sexual
self-confidence disaster of
my last relationship? I asked myself, “You gonna bring all this
stuff to India?
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Litotes
What a mess . . . [Author’s note: Un fortunately there’s no
good way to translate into English the fabulous Italian
expressions checasino and chebordello, which literally mean
“what a casino,” and “what a whorehouse,” but essentially
mean “what a friggin’ mess.”] . . .
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p. 82
The whole stadi um was full of such soliloquies. At such high
fervor! Whenever there was some grave miscar riage of justice
on the field, the entire stadium would rise to its feet, every
man waving his arms in outrage and cursing, as if all 20,000 of
them had just been in a traffic altercation. The Lazio players
were no less dramatic than their fans, rolling on the ground in
pain like death scenes from Julius Caesar, totally playing to the
back row, then jumping up on their feet two seconds later to
lead another attack on the goal.
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p. 82
Phonetic Stylistic Devices
Lecturer’s comments
Examples of stylistic devices
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Onomatopoeia
I would not have trusted a great booming voice that said either
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p. 26
Dai, dai, dai, Albertini, dai . . . va bene, va bene, ragazzo mio,
perfetto, bravo, bravo . . . Dai! Dai! Via! Via! Nella porta!
Eccola, eccola, eccola, mio bravo ragazzo, caro mio, eccola,
eccola, ecco—AAAHHHHHHHHH!!! VAFFANCULO!!! FIGLIO DI
MIGNOTTA!! STRONZO! CAFONE! TRA-DITORE! Madonna . . .
Ah, Dio mio, perché, perché, perché, questo è stu pido, è una
vergogna, la vergogna . . . Che casino, che bordello . . . NON HAI
UN CUORE, ALBERTINI! FAI FINTA! Guarda, non è successo
niente . . . Dai, dai, ah. . . . Molto migliore, Albertini, molto
migliore, sì sì sì, eccola, bello, bravo, anima mia, ah, ottimo,
eccola adesso . . . nella porta, nella porta, nell—
VAFFANCULO!!!!!!
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p. 82
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Alliteration
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of pre venting
your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of
your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words,
words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
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Assonance
I would smile at her and she’d just keep staring, deciding
whether she should chase me out with a broomstick or not.
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love [EnglishOnlineClub.com].pdf
p. 263
I could feel that I was free.
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love [EnglishOnlineClub.com].pdf
p. 200
Which is in about three weeks.
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love [EnglishOnlineClub.com].pdf
p. 330
Amid the more esoteric circles of East ern philosophers, the
number 108 is held to be most auspicious, a perfect three-digit
multiple of three, its components adding up to nine, which is
three threes. And three, of course, is the number representing
supreme balance, as anyone who has ever studied either the
Holy Trinity or a simple barstool can plainly see.
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love [EnglishOnlineClub.com].pdf
p. 14
How would they reach God? In their minds, the cat had
become the means.
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love [EnglishOnlineClub.com].pdf
p. 223