Tribute by Alfred Coppard. Find lexical stylistic devices and analyze

Sirojbek Otajonov

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Tribute by Alfred Coppard. Find lexical stylistic devices and analyze.

The story under interpretation is written in the genre of pamphlet. Being a piece of malicious satire exposing a social evil, it accordingly employs irony (cf. ‘a touching inducement to marry again’), play on words (cf. ‘their parents’ unforgettable and unforgiven service to the country’); understatements and innuendoes hinting at the bitter truth about Nathan Regent and his kin. Yet, the apparently simple story is not quite simple in its genre characteristics, if we come to think of it. It certainly has a philosophical turn, as it contemplates the fates of people and the country, the unseen forces active in the world, the “movers and shakers” of society, and touches upon the global problems of chance and predestination, good and evil. Then, it has definite features of a parable or fairy-tale as characters and events are here very schematic, the composition is artificially ordered and balanced, twice — and thrice-repeated passages are found more than once