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Antithesis: an opposition or contrast of ideas arranged structurally as parallel constructions. ANTITHESIS is a semantic opposition emphasized in similar structures, often involving 2 antonyms: Don’t use big words. They mean so little. (O.W.) Antithesis: an opposition or contrast of ideas arranged structurally as parallel constructions: “ Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care…” ANTICLIMAX (BATHOS) is the reverse of climax or defeated expectancy: He was unconsolable – for an afternoon. (G.) This was appalling – and soon forgotten. (G.) Anticlimax causes a humorous or ironic effect due to the sudden break in the accumulation of logical or emotional importance of the utterance. “ Early rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead” (T.Thurber) Lecture 8-9 Functional stylistics 1. Functional styles: general characteristics, different classifications of functional styles. The group of bookish styles. The group of colloquial styles. The style of belles lettres, the problem of its singling out and definition. 5. Functional distribution within each style: The newspaper style; The publicist style (oratory); The scientific style;
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