Year: 2021
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Syntactical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
The principal criteria for classifying syntactical stylistic devices are:1) The juxtaposition of the parts of an utterance;2) The type of connection of the parts;3) The peculiar use of colloquial constructions;4) The transference of structural meaning.1. The devices built on the principle of juxtaposition are:a) Inversion (several types). Word-order is a…
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All about Oxymoron
It’s a device which consists in joining together words of contradictory meaning. In a laconic way oxymoron shows the existing discrepancy (противоречие) of the object. We distinguish the following types:Adjective + noun: sweet painAdjective + adjective: the biggest little town;Verb + preposition + noun: to ruin by civilization;Verb + adverb:…
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What is Irony?
Irony is a stylistic device also based on the simultaneous realization of two logical meanings – dictionary and contextual, but these two meanings stand in opposition to each other. A denomination is replaced by its opposite. The notion named and the notion meant are different.Example 19: It must be delightful…
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Lexical expressive means and stylistic devices
There are three big subdivisions in this class of devices and they all deal with the semantic natureof a word or phrase.I. Interaction of different types of a word’s meanings: dictionary, contextual, derivative, nominal, and emotive.A interplay of dictionary and contextual meaningsB interaction of primary and derivative meaningsC opposition of…
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Expressive means (EM) and stylistic devices (SD)
In linguistics there are different terms to denote those particular means by which a writer obtains his effect. Expressive means, stylistic means, stylistic devices and other terms are all used indiscriminately. For our purposes it is necessary to make a distinction between expressive means and stylistic devices.All stylistic means of…
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Linguistic basis of stylistics
1. The subject of StylisticsStylistics is a branch of linguistics which examines, analyses and classifies various phenomena of the vocabulary, grammar and phonetics from the point of view of their stylistic function. In other words it studies principles and effects of a choice and use of phonetic, lexical, grammatical language…
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