Syntactical expressive means and stylistic devices: particular ways of combining parts of the utterance
ASYNDETON
(асиндетон,
бессоюзие)
“Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me. I was a hospital in myself”. (Jerome K. Jerome) (absence of the conjunction for or because).
There was peace among the nations;
Unmolested roved the hunters,
Built the birch-canoe for sailing,
Caught the fish in lake and river,
Shot the deer and trapped the beaver;
Unmolested worked the women,
Made their sugar from the maple,
Gathered wild rice in the meadows,
Dressed the skins of deer and beaver. (Longfellow) ('and')
'There's no use in talking to him, he's perfectly idiotic!'said Alice desperately. (L. Carroll) (reason: " because")
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injuries. (Thomas Jefferson) (contradiction: "but")
Youth is full ofpleasance, Age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn,
Age like winter weather. (Shakespeare) (contrast: " whereas")
Should a Frenchman or Englishman travel my route, their stored pictures of it would be different from mine. (Steinbeck) (condition: "If)
POLYSYNDETON
полисиндетон,
многосоюзие
She stirred the fire, and shut the door, and sat as near to it as she could, quite on the edge of her chair.
God of the golden bow,
And of he golden lyre,
And of the golden hair,
And of the golden fire. (John Keats)
The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. She had herself a rich ruby look, for what with eating and drinking and shouting and laughing and singing, her face was crimson and almost steaming.
“And I always been a good girl; and I never offered to say a word to him, and I don’t owe him nothing; and I don’t care and I won’t be put upon; and I have my feelings the same as anyone else”. (Shaw, Pygmalion).
attachment
(the gap-sentence link) 
продолжение мысли
It was an afternoon to dream. And she took out Jon's letters. (Galsworthy)
“It was not Capetown, where people only frowned when they saw a black boy and a white girl. But here … And he loved her” (Abrahams).
It wasn't his fault It was yours. And mine.I now humbly beg you to give me the money with which to buy meals for you to eat. And hereafter do remember it: the next timeI shan’t beg. I shall simply starve.
Prison is where she belongs. And my husband agrees one thousand per cent.
apokoinu constructions æpəˈkɔɪnuː
“There was a door led into the kitchen”.
“I’m the first one saw her. He was Houston did it”.
“It was I was a father to you”.
“He was a man killed that deer” (R.P. Warren).
"There was no breeze came through the door". (E. Hemingway)
"There was a door led into the kitchen". (E. Hemingway)
"This is the sword killed him." (Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics)
ELLIPSIS
If word go out, just think what would happen. Dogs as smart as men? A blasphemous assertionю
- Where is the man I’m going to speak to?
- Out in the garden.
-You Chester Scott?
-That’s right.
-Glad to know you.
-Were they interesting books?
-Don’t know. Haven’t read them. Looked pretty hopeless.
Not him, sir. Too pleased with himself. Some gentlemen can’t – act… Too stiff.
The robbery Long Ago. Very valuable emeralds… The lady’s made and the twenty.
Quick – in here!
APOSIOPESIS (BREAK-IN-THE-NARRATIVE) [ə’pɔstrəfɪ]
Well, I never.
If they only knew that.
You heard what that guy said: get out or else….
These people talk to me like this because they don’t know who I am. If they knew… (M. Twain).
On the hall table there were a couple of letters addressed to her. One was the bill. The other...
I am sorry, Thomas. By the way, my name is Aden, if you care…
If you hadn't left your own people, your goddamned Old Westbury Saratoga, Palm Beach people to take me on…
QUESTION-IN-THE-NARRATIVE (RATIOCINATIVE QUESTION)
For what is left the poet there?
For Greeks a blush – for Greece a tear. (G. Byron)
Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did.
RHETORICAL
QUESTION
" What was the good of discontented people who fitted in nowhere?? Is the day of the supernatural over? (A. Christie)
And then, like a douche of cold water, came the horrible thought, was she right? (A. Christie)
What is this life if, full of care
We have no time to stand and stare? (W.A. Davies)
REPRESENTED SPEECH
2 varieties:
uttered represented speech (косвенно-прямая речь)
“Barbara”, said Kit, “you’re not cross with me?”
Ooh dear! Why should Barbara be cross? And what right had she to be cross? And what did it matter whether she was cross or no? Who minded her?
“Why. I do,”said Kit. “Of course I do” (Ch Dickens. The Old Curiosity Shop)
1) Could he bring a reference from where he now was? He could. (Th. Dreiser, An American Tragedy).
2) A maid came in now with a blue gown, very thick and soft. Could she do anything for Miss Freeland? No thanks, she could not, only did she know where Mr. Freeland’s room was?. (Galsworthy, the Freelands).
unuttered or inner represented speech (изображенная)
Denis groaned in the spirit,condemned himself utterly with all his works. What right had he to sit in the sunshine, to occupy corner seats in third-class carriages, to be alive? None, none, none.
An idea had occurred to Soames. His cousin Jolyon was Irene’s trustee, the 1st step would be to go down and seehim at Robin Hill. Robin Hill! (J. Galsworthy).
LITOTES
(A
VARIANT OF PERIPHRASIS) 
Not bad (= very good);
He is no coward (= very brave);
It was no easy task (= very difficult);
There are not a few people who think so ( = very many);
I was not a little surprised (= very much surprised);
It was done not without taste (= in very good taste) ;
He was not without taste… It troubled him not a little… Love over comes no small things. He is not uncultured.
He is no coward – He is a brave man.
Her face was not unhandsome.
He didn’t fail to come.