“Come away: for Life and Thought Here no longer dwell; But in a city glorious— a great and distant city—have bought a mansion incorruptible. Would they could have stayed with us.”

Antithesis is used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect.

Examples:

In peace you are for war, and in war you long for peace.

Many are called, but few are chosen

16. Parallel constructions

In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. The application of parallelism improves writing style and readability, and is thought to make sentences easier to process.

There are following examples:

• Lacking parallelism: "She likes cooking, jogging, and to read."

• Lacking parallelism: "He likes to swim and running."

• Parallel: "She likes cooking, jogging, and reading."

• Parallel: "She likes to cook, jog, and read."

• Parallel: "He likes to swim and to run."

• Parallel: "He likes swimming and running."

17. The phonetic stylistic devices: onomatopoeia, alliteration

Onomatopoeia is defined as a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting.

Common Examples of Onomatopoeia

• The buzzing bee flew away.

• The sack fell into the river with a splash.

• The books fell on the table with a loud thump.

• He looked at the roaring sky.

• The rustling leaves kept me awake.

Alliteration is derived from Latin’s “Latira”. It means “letters of alphabet”. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.

Consider the following examples:

• But a better butter makes a batter better.

• A big bully beats a baby boy.

18. The phonetic stylistic devices: rhyme, rhythm

Rhyme is the repetition of identical or similar terminal sound combination of words. Rhyming words are generally placed at a regular distance from each other.

We distinguish between full rhymes and incomplete rhymes.

The full rhyme presupposes identity of the vowel sound and the following consonant sounds.

e.g. might – right

Incomplete rhymes present a greater variety. They can be divided into two main groups: vowel rhymes and consonant rhymes.

In vowel rhymes the vowels of the syllables in corresponding words are identical, but the consonants may be different.

e.g. flesh – fresh –press

Consonant rhymes, on the contrary, show concordance in consonants.

e.g. worth – forth

e.g. tale – tool

There are rhymes that are called compound or broken. Their peculiarity is that the combination of words sounds like one word.

e.g. bottom – forgot’em – shot him

There are rhymes that are called eye-rhymes (the letters and not the sounds are identical)

e.g. love – prove; etc.

Many eye-rhymes are the result of historical changes in the vowel sounds in certain positions.

There is still another variety of rhyme which is called internal rhyme. The rhyming words are placed not at the ends of the lines, but within the line, as in:

e.g. Once upon a midnight drearywhile I pondered weak and weary …(E. A. Poe)

Rhythm – is a term applied to both verse and prose.

Rhythm is primarily a periodicity. According to some investigations, rhythmical periodicity in verse “requires intervals of about three quarters of a second between successive peaks of periods”.