The article examines the peculiarities of use stylistic devices in novel “Where Crawdads Sing” by American writer Delia Owens and their reproduction Ukrainian translation. Stylistic means are an integral part fiction they possess metaphoric meaning, emotional features that help convey author’s idea. functioning aspect metaphor simile were clarified. It was also found peculiarity is presence a n...

Metaphor processing has been a heated topic in NLP. Cognitive properties of a word are important in metaphor understanding and generation. But data collected automatically tend to be reduced in both quantity and quality. This paper introduces CogBank a database of Chinese concepts and their associated cognitive properties. The database was constructed using simile templates to extract millions ...

We report 17 species of Paederinae new for New Brunswick, Canada. Ten of these species, Lathrobium othioides LeConte, Lathrobium amplipenne Casey, Lathrobium armatum Say, Lathrobium confusum LeConte, Lathrobium debile LeConte, Achenomorphus corticinus (Gravenhorst), Rugilus rufipes Germar, Homaeotarsus bicolor (Gravenhorst), Homaeotharsus cribratus (LeConte), and Homaeotarsus pallipes (Gravenho...

This study aims to investigate the types of figurative language used in online reviews a game. The method applied was qualitative. data were obtained from ten World Warcraft game found on internet. analyzed using stylistic approach. results show that four tend be reviews. They are hyperbole (40%), personification (24%), simile (23%), and metaphor (13%).

In Seppelt and Richter (2005) we presented and discussed the differences in numerical simulations obtained from different modelling tools applied to a predatoreprey test-system. Based on analytical findings of this highly non-linear Lotkae Volterra-type model, including capacity-limited growth of the prey and density-dependent predation success, we were able to demonstrate that resulting trajec...

When you consider all the tricks that a virus writer can use to break AV scanners, metamorphic viruses, such as Win32/Evol, Metaphor (aka W32/Simile, see VB, May 2002, p.4) and W95/Zmist (see VB, March 2001 p.6) appear invincible. These viruses transform their code as they propagate, thus evading detection by analysers that rely on static information extracted from previously observed virus cod...