The Glory of British Arts

LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES

METAPHOR. METONOMY. SENECDOCHE. IRONY. EPITHET. HYPERBOLE. OXYMORON.

Metaphor- transference of names based on the associated likeness between two objects.

e.g. "pancake" – ball; "volcano" - sun —> silver dust; "veil" – sky

Personification- likeness between inanimate and animate objects.

e.g. "the face of London", "the pain of the ocean"

Metonomy- like metaphor is based on contiguity (nearness) of objects or phenomena. e.g. "Will you have another cup"

"He made his way through the perfume and conversation"

Zeugma- semantic groups are deliberately used with two or more homogeneous members, which are not connected semantically...

e.g. "He took his hat and his leave".

"She went home in a flood of tears and a sedan chair.”

Irony- a SD in which contextual evaluative meaning of a word is directly opposite to its dictio­nary meaning.

e.g. "She turned with the sweet smile of an alligator"

Antonomasia- a lexical SD in which a proper name is used instead of a common noun or vice versa.

e.g. Dr. Diet; Dr. Fresh Air

Epithet- a SD expressing characteristics of an object, both existing and imaginary.

e.g. "true love"; "merry Christmas"; "dead silence"; "rose-fingered dawn"

Hyperbole- a SD in which emphasis is achieved through deliberate exaggeration.

e.g. "My vegetable love should grow faster than empires", "I would gladly see this film a hundred times"

Oxymoron- a SD the syntactic and semantic structures of which come to clashes.

e.g. (Shakespeare) "O brawling love!", "O loving hate!", "to cry silently", "awfully pretty"

The Glory of British Arts

Speaking on the topic 'The Glory of British Arts’ I'd like first to determine the things which generally come under the heading the arts.

The arts cover everything in the network which includes:

1) performing arts

2) fine arts

3) literature

Fine arts - include drawing, painting, sculpture or ceramics.

Paintingis one of the oldest and most important arts. Since prehistoric times artists have arranged paint on surfaces in ways that express their ideas about people and the world. The paintings that artists create have great value for humanity. They provide people with both enjoyment and information. Much of our knowledge about prehistoric and ancient times comes from painting and other arts.

The history of painting is noted for a great number of famous, talented & outstanding masters and their masterpieces.

Every nation is proud of its artists and Britain is not an exception. The United Kingdom has a long history of excellence in the art and its contributions to art are remarkable in richness and variety.

The earliest visual art in Britain was mostly ornamentations on ordinary objects. As a Protestant nation, Britain didn't experience the full flowering of the baroque era that followed the Renaissance in Roman Catholic countries.

In early modern times portrait became important, particularly for monarchs.

By the 18^th century, a distinctive British style began to emerge that tended to be brighter and livelier than the darker European canvases. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney became famous for their polished & elegant portraits. Gainsborough and Turner painted natural landscapes and seascapes.

Architecture

Some of the oldest examples of British architecture include a few small Anglo-Saxon buildings. After the Norman Conquest in 1066, Norman architecture became prevalent in the British Isles. The Normans built monumental castles and churches with enormous arches and huge columns, like the White Tower, which is part of the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey and Lincoln Cathedral. Britain has produced many artists in the 20^th century. They include sculptors Jacob Epstein and Dame Elisabeth Frink, who both produced monumental figures.

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