- •1.Tense Categories of the English Language
- •2.Polyfunctionality and the Nature of Gerund.
- •3. Terms, ways of formation, functions.
- •4. English proverbs, their taxonomy and functionality.
- •5.Modal Verbs, their Evolution and Functioning
- •6. / 27. Grammatical category of number in English.
- •7. Grammatical category of case
- •8. Synonymy
- •9. Stylistic classification of english vocabulary
- •10. Abbreviations, shortenings, the ways of vocabulary enrichment in English.
- •11. Phraseological units, or idioms and free word group
- •12.Major categories of a text.
- •13.The category of voice in English
- •14.The category of mood in English
- •15. Different features of functional styles. Criteria for their classification.
- •16. Syntactic relations in Engl, forms and means of syntactic connection. The word group theory.
- •1) The principle of the categorical reference of a kernel word:
- •2) The character of syntactic relations:
- •3) The way of connection:
- •4) Position of the kernel and adjunct
- •18. Diachronic approaches to polysemy. Change of word meaning in the course of historical development.
- •19. The category of negation in English
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- •22. Сonversion in English. Semantic relations within conversion pairs.
- •23. Typology of the sound systems of English and Ukranian
- •24. Typological characteristics of the parts of the sentence in English and Ukrainian.
- •25.Stress patterns of the words in English
- •26.Historical development of the phonetic system of English
- •27 Numeral and quantitative words
- •28. The category of word
- •29. The category of morpheme.
- •30. Phonetic Stylistic Devices.
30. Phonetic Stylistic Devices.
The most powerful expressive means (EM) of any language are phonetic. Pitch, melody, stress, sounds, pausation, drawling, whispering, a sing-song manner of speech are very effective EM. These EM are studied by phonetics. Stylistics observes the nature of EM and their capacity of becoming stylistic devices (SD). The phonetic SD are alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm.
Alliteration is a phonetic SD which consists in the repetition of similar consonants in close succession to express a definite feeling, to contribute something to the general effect of the message.
Assonance is a phonetic SD which consists in the repetition of similar vowels in close succession with the purpose to create a strong emotional effect.
Cf. This tuneful peal will still ring on. /Th. Moore/
The repetition of the sound /1/ in this line renders the musical effect too.
Onomatopoeia is a phonetic SD which consists in imitating sounds produced in nature (wind, sea, thunder), by people (sighing, laughter, patter of feet), by animals, by things, etc. This SD expresses a definite feeling or state of mind.
Rhyme is a phonetic SD which consists in the repetition of identical or similar sound combinations of words. The rhymes may be arranged in couplets (aa), in triplets (aaa), in cross rhymes (abab) and in framing (abba).
Rhythm as a phonetic SD consists in regular periodicity of long / short, stressed / unstressed, high / low segments of speech. It brings order into me utterance. Rhythm intensifies the emotion (enumeration, repetition, parallel construction, etc.).