Levels and dimensions: What I have lived for 1 Cicerchia, Valentina SUPERSTRUCTURE: prologue to a book MACROSTRUCTURE: Russells life

MICROSTRUCTURE: Russells search for love and knowledge Rhemes: -Love brings ecstasy -Love relieves loneliness -Knowledge helps to understand the hearts of men. STYLE: deliberative. Register: formal Tone: nostalgic, impassioned.

RHETORICS: It is an argumentative text and it is well-written. Its target audience is everyone that has bought that book. Rhetorical devices: 1- Repetition of words: love, ecstasy, human life, etc. 2- Appeal to the readers emotion. 3- Parallelism: I have sought 4- Metaphor: like great winds 5-Compounds: overwhelming 6-Synonyms: ecstasy, joy. PRAGMATICS: I long to alleviate this evil Perlocutionary act: You should long to do so. SEMANTICS: Words with positive connotation: love, ecstasy, joy knowledge, heaven, saints, good, life, wish. Words with negative connotation: anguish, despair, loneliness, cold, unfathomable, lifeless, abyss, cries, pain, famine, tortured, victims, oppressors, burden, helpless, poverty, mockery, evil, suffer. Semantic field: words relater with love and knowledge.

Levels and dimensions: What I have lived for 2 Cicerchia, Valentina LOVE: joy, love, ecstasy, passion KNOWLEDGE: understand, know, apprehend. SYNTAX: The text has very long sentences. It also has five paragraphs which are different in size. It has simple, complex and compound sentences. MORPHOLOGY: Suffixes: helpless, longing, shivering, lifeless, loneliness, poverty. Compound: overwhelming Prefixes: unfathomable NOTATIONAL ASPECT: The title is in bold letters and it is in a smaller size than that of the rest of the text. The subtitle is in a bigger size.