The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... phrase and the altered form has a powerfully ironical effect . Ada , writing that Percy's blackmail would expose his motives and actions " in the long ruin " ( A , 335 ) , indicates that his exposure will ultimate- ly come and will also ...
... phrase and the altered form has a powerfully ironical effect . Ada , writing that Percy's blackmail would expose his motives and actions " in the long ruin " ( A , 335 ) , indicates that his exposure will ultimate- ly come and will also ...
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... phrase consists of sixteen syllables , eight for each part of the phrase . Each sequence carries three main stresses , one secondary stress , and four unstressed syllables . The first part of the phrase shows a triple alliteration and ...
... phrase consists of sixteen syllables , eight for each part of the phrase . Each sequence carries three main stresses , one secondary stress , and four unstressed syllables . The first part of the phrase shows a triple alliteration and ...
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... phrase " And then we shall see " ( LD , 250 ) , without realizing the ironical implications of the phrase for the blind patient . The oculist uses the verb in the sense of ' find out ' ; for Albinus , however , the basic meaning is much ...
... phrase " And then we shall see " ( LD , 250 ) , without realizing the ironical implications of the phrase for the blind patient . The oculist uses the verb in the sense of ' find out ' ; for Albinus , however , the basic meaning is much ...
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