Seminar No 8

Lexico-semantic expressive means and stylistic devices:

Figures of combination

1. General considerations.

2. Figures of identity:

 

- similie;

- use of synonyms.

3. Figures of contrast:

- oxymoron;

- antithesis.

4. Figures of inequality:

-climax;

- anticlimax;

- zeugma;

- pun.

5. Practical assignment.

Literature recommended

1. Мороховский А. Н., Воробьева О. П. и др. Стилистика английского языка. - К., 1991. - С. 186-199.

2. Арнольд И. В. Стилистика современного английского языка. -М., 1990.-С. 95-96, 130-131.

3. Кузнец М. Д., Скребнев Ю. М. Стилистика английского языка. -Л., I960. - С. 11-13,28-29,33-35, 37-38.

4. Galperin I. R. Stylistics. - Moscow, 1981. - P. 162-164, 167-169, 219-225,148-153.

5. Kukharenko V. A. Seminars in style. -Moscow, 1991. -P. 85-87,26-27.

 

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Seminars No 9,10 Stylistic syntax: syntactic expressive means and stylistic devices

1. General considerations.

2. Syntactic expressive means and stylistic devices of the English language:

 

- based on reduction of the initial sentence model: ellipsis, aposiopesis, nominative sentences, asyndeton;

- based on extension of the initial sentence model: repetition, enumera­tion, tautology, polysyndeton, "it is (was) he, who...", the emphatic verb "to do", parenthetic sentences;

- based on change of word-order: inversion, detachment;

- based on interaction of syntactic structures in context: parallel con­structions;

- based on transposition of meaning and connection of constituent parts: rhetoric questions, parceling.

3. Practical assignment.