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  Internal monologue and confirmation bias. In stories and how it influences the flow of narrative and resolutions. LITLING 7 direct thought LITLING 5 Psychological POV Narrative refracted through a character’s consciousness, their beliefs and knowledge. This can affect the spatial-temporal POV as well MARKERS Verbs of perception Mental processes Epistemic modality (maybe, probably, certainly) Internalised speech 

  QOHELETH: reference to the person whose philosophy is being represented in the book ECCLESIASTES: wisdom literature: traditionally invokes the voice of Solomon, the voice of a person talking about the great teacher’s story. Ends with the coda to tie in his intention of what the teacher is trying to say Assuming the position that life is meaningless. Negativity to break the myth of religious fulfilment. “Vanity/meaningless” over 40 times. Hevel (smoke, vapour). “Under the sun” disillusion, disappointment, depression in face of the question: is life worth living? Why keep going if there is nothing worth living for? Everything stimulates, but doesn’t satisfy. A text out of context is pretext. Optimism arises Whenever God is mentioned (life is focused) chp3 - a time to do this, that…God orders, time is choosing the time chp -   Pessimism arises when he observes ‘under the sun’ Life is futile in comparison to eternity? Should be the other way around.

DRAFT 1 Black patches of grass stubble through the clearing under a torched sky. A remarkable feat, considering that the entire valley was razed to the ground just a few weeks prior. Yes, it is true. You could say that even grass pushes through in anticipation when their soil remembers the day that graces it. How can it forget? Today is the annual day of celebration, where the Asli bestow blessings upon each other's vitality. It is also the bright morning where they dance with all kind animals, black, brown, and even white. Remember their chorals? Or the way the Asli taught the animals one by one to sing? Indeed, it was a day to celebrate those who really come alive. Yet, we should not get your hopes too high. There is no dancing today, and the flurry of celebration will continue to be absent for the first time in decades. The wind has died from holding its breath, and stale blessings still hang unspoken. The animals are hidden too. Silent, save for the buzzing ones lavishing the ...

1. A brief history of stylistics. The English term "stylistics" first appeared in 1882-83. Interestingly its introduction was in NT studies, when Philip Schaff wrote in the Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge about "giving proper place to New Testament stylistics and rhetoric." "Stylistics" as a discipline is new, but it has extensive roots in ancient rhetoric, criticism, grammar and philology. At times it has been made into a subdivision of linguistics, at times a subdivision of literary studies or rhetoric. "H. Bradley, Stylistic," A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1919), 9, part 1, 1208. literature review:   What is said: What others have said about it, what it is grounded in What is done: How it is reflected in the authors's other works, How it is used in a special way in this text? Does it reveal anythign about the author/characters? HOw the reviews connect to this study: support and disagree with deficienci...