Porównania w Listach z podróży do Ameryki Henryka Sienkiewicza. Analiza lingwistyczna
Journal Title: Conversatoria Linguistica. Międzynarodowy Rocznik Naukowy - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
A purpose of this article is to provide linguistic analysis of similes appearing in Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Letters from a Journey to America. The article mainly fo-cused on: • discussing a formal shape of comparative constructions, • classification of similes, • discussing basic subject areas the excerpted similes belong to, • the most important functions of similes in Letters. . It was established that the use of comparative constructions was peculiar to the author of Letters from a Journey to America. The frequent collection of similes and the variety of their forms and functions in the column are some examples of the specifity of Sienkiewicz’s style
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Edyta Kosmala-Dudek
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