Their chief value is that they are Indian legends." Longfellow had originally planned on following Schoolcraft in calling his hero Manabozho, the name in use at the time among the Ojibwe of the south shore of Lake Superior for a figure of their folklore, a trickstertransformer. But in his journal entry for June 28, 1854, he wrote, "Work at 'Manabozho;' or, as I think I shall call it, 'Hiawatha'--that being another name for the same personage." Hiawatha was not "another name for the same personage" (the mistaken identification of the trickster figure was made first by Schoolcraft and compounded by Longfellow), but a probable historical figure associated with the founding of the League of the Iroquois, the Five Nations then located in presentday New York and Pennsylvania. Because of the poem, however, "Hiawatha" became the namesake for towns, schools and a telephone company in the western Great Lakes region, where no Iroquois nations historically resided. The late romantic authors
I'll never let a man into my life) Antonomasia--(Greek for name instead) use of names · The use of the proper name instead of a general idea (Don Juan) · Spelling a word or phrase with a capital letter as if it were a proper name. It can be perceived only in writing (our Little Group of Serious Thinkers)--irony · A meaningful name, especially family names which characterize a personage (Little Miss Rich Bitch) Irony--use of the word in its opposite meaning (He is a nice, kind family man who killed his wife with an ax) 2) Stylistic devices based on the interaction of denotational and emotional meaning Epithet--a figure of speech denoting some quality through expressing an individual appraisement of a state, action and object. It's mainly subjective and evaluative (dry tailored voice, very dead, stony silence)
g. doctors). These words stand for concepts and objects typical of this profession, are new names for established terms. The established terms may be too long or difficult to pronounce and other words are used not to sound too official (e.g. "neutron" neut). Often shortenings take place (e.g. in university: "lit" literature). 4. Dialectical words - are used locally, they characterize a personage and belonging to a certain geographical area, their education. Some dialectical words have become common colloquial words. In some dialects "thou" is used instead of "you", "a tell" gossip. Rendering dialectical speech the author combines such words with cases of faulty grammar. 5. Vulgarisms are words or expressions that are too rude or offensive to be used widely. There are 2 types of vulgarisms:
The established terms may be too long or too difficult to pronounce and so other words are used not to sound too business-like or official (e.g. "hypodermic syringe" the needle or the hypo, "neutron" neut). Often shortenings take place (e.g. in hunting: "buff" buffalo; in university: "lit" literature, "fresher" freshman). 4. Dialectical words are those that are used locally, hence, they characterize a personage and belonging to a certain geographical area, their education. Some dialectical words FGI 1081 Stylistics (I. Ladusseva) 24 have become common colloquial words (e.g. "lad", "lass", "daft" (from Scottish). In some dialects "thou" is preserved instead of "you", "a tell" gossip, "to mash" to pour tea, "addle" to earn (money), etc
room. All Elizabeth's anger against him had been long done away; but had she still felt any, it could hardly have stood its ground against the unaffected cordiality with which he expressed himself on seeing her again. He inquired in a friendly, though general way, after her family, and looked and spoke with the same good-humoured ease that he had ever done. To Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner he was scarcely a less interesting personage than to herself. They had long wished to see him. The whole party before them, indeed, excited a lively attention. The suspicions which had just arisen of Mr. Darcy and their niece directed their observation towards each with an earnest though guarded inquiry; and they soon drew from those inquiries the full conviction that one of them at least knew what it was to love. Of the lady's sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing