The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... Noun Compounds Among noun compounds , only those cases have been select- ed in which two nouns are combined , either in one word or connected by a hyphen . All noun compounds with verbal stems or those where an adjective modifies a noun ...
... Noun Compounds Among noun compounds , only those cases have been select- ed in which two nouns are combined , either in one word or connected by a hyphen . All noun compounds with verbal stems or those where an adjective modifies a noun ...
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... noun . Ofte . the combination is an imaginative , meta- phorical rendering of an idea . By endowing the abstract meaning of the noun with emotional and sensory qualities ( with the help of the adjective ) , it becomes concretely ...
... noun . Ofte . the combination is an imaginative , meta- phorical rendering of an idea . By endowing the abstract meaning of the noun with emotional and sensory qualities ( with the help of the adjective ) , it becomes concretely ...
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... Noun & Noun & Noun Ada's adventures in Adaland ( A , 568 ) Ada's arbors and ardors ( A , 54 , 74 , 159 , 367 , 409 ) appetite , ambition or achievement Athens , Antibes , Atlanta ( SM , 134 ) ( SM , 126 ) Belgarde , Berlin and Brussels ...
... Noun & Noun & Noun Ada's adventures in Adaland ( A , 568 ) Ada's arbors and ardors ( A , 54 , 74 , 159 , 367 , 409 ) appetite , ambition or achievement Athens , Antibes , Atlanta ( SM , 134 ) ( SM , 126 ) Belgarde , Berlin and Brussels ...
Common terms and phrases
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