Stylistic devices презентация

Stylistic devices
based on the interaction of types and forms of connection between clauses and sentences
based on the transposition of meaning of a syntactic structure in the given context
based on the interaction of syntactic constructions of several contact clauses or sentences

Syntactical stylistic devices
Syntactic stylistic devices are the ways of combination of sentence models within a supra-phrasal unit, paragraph, text.
A paragraph is a graphical term used to name a group of sentences marked off by indentation at the beginning and a break in the line at the end.
A supra-phrasal unit is a combination of sentences presenting a structural and semantic unity backed up by rhythmic and melodic unity.
The rhetorical question does not demand any information but serves to express the emotions of the speaker and also to call the attention of listeners.

Syntactical stylistic devices
depends on either the completeness of the structure or on the arrangement of its members
E. Waugh's novel Vile Bodies:
"Well, Tony rang up Michael and told him that I'd said that William, thought Michael had written the review because of the reviews I had written of Michael's book last November, though, as a matter of fact, it was Tony himself who wrote it." (E.W.)

Syntactical Stylistic Devices
Repetition
‘Stop!’ – she cried. ‘Don’t tell me! I don’t want to hear: I don’t want to hear what you’ve come for. I don’t want to hear.
Epiphora
Epiphora is the repetition at the end of a phrase.
“I am exactly the man to be placed in a superior position in such a case as that. I am above the rest of mankind, in such a case as that. I can act with philosophy in such a case as that”.
Anaphora
It is the repetition of the same word at the beginning of two or more phrases.
Inversion / Change of word order aims
‘Talent Mr. Micawber has; capital Mr. Micawber has not’
Came frightful days of snow and rain.
Detached Construction
It is a secondary part of a sentence, placed so that it seems formally independent of the word it logically refers to.
‘Steyne rose up, grinding his teeth, pale, and with fury un his eyes’.

Syntactical Stylistic Devices
Parenthesis
It is a qualifying, explanatory or appositive word, phrase, sentence, etc. which interrupts a syntactic construction, giving an utterance an additional meaning or emotional colouring.
‘Carl, a great singer, was not a good dancer’.
Parallel Construction
‘And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot’.

Syntactical Stylistic Devices
Chiasmus / Reversed Parallel Construction
‘In peace sons bury their their fathers,
‘But in war fathers bury their sons’.
‘Down dropped the breeze,
‘The sails dropped down’.
Anadiplosis / Reduplication
‘A smile would come into Mr. Pickwick’s face: the smile extended into a laugh: the laugh into a roar, and the roar become general’.

Syntactical Stylistic Devices
Climax / Gradation
It is the arrangement which secures a gradual increase in significance, importance or emotional tension in the utterance.
‘It was a lovely city, a beautiful city, a fair city, a veritable gem of a city’.
Quantative climax is an evident increase in the volume of the concepts:
‘They looked at hundreds of houses, they climbed thousands of stairs they inspected innumerable kitchens’.