The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... connection by " and " is different from one constituted by " or " ; similarly , the two words in an adjective noun com- bination differ considerably from those connected in an ad- verb verb combination . In addition , a study of the ...
... connection by " and " is different from one constituted by " or " ; similarly , the two words in an adjective noun com- bination differ considerably from those connected in an ad- verb verb combination . In addition , a study of the ...
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... connected by assonance . Here , again . the similarity in sound creates a strong tie between the words and their senses . The effect of neighboring words connected by assonance is comparable to that of words linked by allit- eration ...
... connected by assonance . Here , again . the similarity in sound creates a strong tie between the words and their senses . The effect of neighboring words connected by assonance is comparable to that of words linked by allit- eration ...
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... connected by alliteration , parallel iwo words . a ) Nouns connected by " and " X x x anguish and ardor / bank and bed x features and faults X x X frescoes and fountains x / x X repentance and rage X x x the dirt and the death b ) Nouns ...
... connected by alliteration , parallel iwo words . a ) Nouns connected by " and " X x x anguish and ardor / bank and bed x features and faults X x X frescoes and fountains x / x X repentance and rage X x x the dirt and the death b ) Nouns ...
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adjective Agnomination alliteration appearance Appendix artistic aspects assonance beauty Bend Sinister blend bokov's butterfly characterized chess problems Cincinnatus color combinations compounds concepts connected consciousness context correspondence dark death deceptive dream Dreyer elements émigrés emotional English existence experience expression fate feeling fictional world French frequently further examples Fyodor German Hermann human Humbert imagination incongruity ironical irony John Shade Kinbote Kinbote's language linguistic literary lives Lolita meaning memory metaphor mirror Nabokov's characters Nabokov's fiction Nabokov's prose narrator nature noun novel onomatopoeia onomatopoeic Pale Fire parallelism past patterns person phonological phrase play Pnin poem poetic polysemy prefix protagonists reader reality refers rhythm Russian scene Sebastian Knight semantic sense Shade similarity solus rex sound specific suffixes suggestive Synesthesia texture things verb verbal vision visual wordplay words writes