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The Blind Assassin (Text 1). By Margaret Atwood

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The Doom of the Darnaways. By Gilbert Keith Chesterton 

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The Blind Assassin (Text 2). By Margaret Atwood

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The Great Gatsby. By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Cheap at Half the Price. By Jeffrey Archer

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The Story of an Hour. By Kate Chopin

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References

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1. Alliteration

2. Assonance

3. Onomatopoeia

4. Simile

5. Metaphor

6. Metonymy

7. Epithet

8. Zeugma

9. Hyperbole

10. Understatement

11. Litotes

12. Antonomasia

13. Climax (gradation)

14. Anti-climax

15. Antithesis

16. Oxymoron

17. Anadiplosis

18. Asyndeton

19. Polysyndeton

20. Ellipsis

21. Aposiopesis

22. Parallel structures

23. Chiasmus

24. Parenthesis

25. Detachment

26. Convergence

1. a word, phrase or clause which is used attributively and which discloses an individual, emotionally coloured attitude of the author towards the object described;

2. avoidance of conjunctions;

3. weakening the emotional effect by adding unexpectedly weaker elements to the strong ones mentioned above;

4. transference of names based on the associated likeness between two objects;

5. a semantic opposition of two homogeneous words or parallel syntactical structures;

6. repetition in the initial position of a word from the final position of the preceding line or utterance;

7. the use of a proper name for a common one;

8. a marked repetition of conjunctions before each parallel phrase;

9. a figure of speech where one and the same verb is connected with two semantically incompatible subjects or objects, or one adjective with two semantically incompatible nouns; the resultant effect is humorous or ironical;

10. a statement concerning the similarity, the affinity of two notions, where the comparison is expressed by a special connective;

11. break in the narrative, leaving an utterance unfinished;

12. reversed syntactic repetition, by which the order of the words in the first structure is reversed in the second;

13. a repetition of the same consonant at the beginning of neighbouring words;

14. an arrangement of ideas in which what precedes is inferior to what follows;

15. the repetition of similar vowels, usually in stressed syllables;

16. a deliberate overstatement;

17. grouping several stylistic devices round a notion, each setting off some of its features;

18. ascribing a property to an object incompatible, inconsistent with that property;

19. an explanatory or qualifying comment inserted into the midst of a passage, without being grammatically connected with it, and marked off by brackets, commas or dashes;

20. lessening, reducing the real quantity of the object of speech;

21. transference of names based on contiguity (nearness) of objects or phenomena;

22. omission of one or both principal parts of the sentence;

23. isolation of different members of the sentence by punctuation marks – commas, dashes, dots (suspension points), or their unusual placement in a sentence for the purpose of emphasis;

24. a specific variety of understatement consisting in expressing the lessened degree of quantity of a thing by means of negation of the antonym;

25. syntactic repetition of structures proximate in a text, with similar syntactic patterns, but different or partially different lexically;

26. the use of words whose sounds imitate those of the signified object or action.