- •General Notes on Style and Stylistics
- •Stylistics and Other Linguistic Sciences
- •Meaning from a Stylistic Point of View
- •Stylistic Devices
- •Lexical Stylistic Devices
- •EMs and sDs based on the interaction of primary and contextual meanings
- •Em and sd based on the interplay of primary (dictionary) and derivative meanings (zeugma, pun, violation of phraseological units)
- •Sd based on the interaction between the logical and the nominal meanings of the word
- •Em and sd based on the interaction between the logical and emotive meanings
- •EMs and sDs which give additional characteristics to the objects described
- •Syntactical Stylistic Devices
- •SDs used within a sentence. SDs based on the juxtaposition (соположение) of different parts of the utterance
- •SDs based on the peculiarities of oral speech
- •SDs based on the stylistic use of interrogative and negative constructions (rhetorical questions, litotes)
- •SDs used within an utterance sDs based on parallelism
- •SDs Based on Repetition
- •Functional Style of the English Language
- •The Belles-Lettres Functional Style (the Style of Fiction)
- •The Scientific Prose Style
- •Popular Science prose
- •Newspaper Style
- •Paper 1
- •Paper 2
- •4. Answer the questions in writing
- •Translate the sentences and analyze the cases of metonymy
- •Paper 3
- •4. Give examples of irony and sarcasm.
- •5. Answer the questions in writing
- •Paper 4
- •5. Answer the questions in writing
- •6. Translate the sentences in writing. Indicate the types of cases of play on words, how it is created, what effect it adds to the utterance
- •Paper 5
- •Give your examples of antonomasia.
- •Analyze the following cases of antonomasia
- •Paper 6
- •Give your examples of different types of epithet
- •Define the type and function of epithet. Translate the sentences
- •Paper 7
- •Give your own examples of hyperbole, understatement and oxymoron.
- •7. In the following examples concentrate on cases of hyperbole and understatement. Translate the sentences.
- •Translate the following sentences, pay attention to oxymoron.
- •Paper 8
- •Learn the following phrases and use them in your own sentences:
- •4. Discuss the following cases of simile
- •Paper 9
- •3. Define the periphrases in the sentences and state their type:
- •Paper 10
- •7. Find examples of inversion and detachment in w. S. Maugham’s novel “Theatre”.
- •8. Analyze cases of inversion and detachment. Make the sentences sound neutral by restoring the word order
- •Paper 11
- •4. Find examples of represented speeh, rhetorical questions in w. S. Maugham’s novel “Theatre”.
- •5. Discuss different types of stylistic devices dealing with the completeness of the sentences
- •Analyze the structure and the functions of litotes
- •Paper 12
- •5. Find and analyze cases of suspense and climax. Indicate the type of climax
- •Paper 13
- •3. Discuss the semantic centre and structural peculiarities of antithesis
- •Paper 14
- •3. Find cases of different types of repetition, parallelism and chiasmus in w.S Maugham’s novel “Theatre”
- •4. Define repetition, parallelism and chiasmus
- •Paper 15
Paper 3
What are the main groups of lexical stylistic devices?
What is irony?
What lexical meaning is employed in its formation?
What types of irony do you know? Give examples.
4. Give examples of irony and sarcasm.
5. Answer the questions in writing
Contentedly Sam Clark drove off in the heavy traffic of three Fords and the Minnie mashie House Free Bus.
What are the two diametrically opposite meanings realized within the word “heavy”?
Is the word “heavy” contextually evaluative? Is it objective or subjective? Can the traffic of 3 cars and a bus be called “heavy”?
What facts about Sam Clark do you come to know on reading the sentence? Was he an experienced driver? Why was he pleased?
6. Translate and analyze the sentences. Explain what conditions made the realization of the opposite evaluation possible. What part of speech is used in irony?
1. When the war broke out she took down the signed photograph of the Kaiser and, with some solemnity, hang it in the men-servants’ lavatory; it was her one combative action (E.W.).
2. From her earliest infancy Gertrude was brought up by her aunt. Her aunt had carefully instructed her to Christian principles. She also taught her Mohammedanism, to make sure (L.).
3. She is a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she washed her hair since Coolidge’s second term, I’ll eat my spare tire, rim and all (R.Ch.).
4. Sonny Grosso was a worrier who looked for and frequently managed to find the dark side of most situations.
5. Last time it was a nice, simple, European-style war.
6. But every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. As the great champion of freedom and national independence he conquers and annexes half the world and calls it Colonization.
7. Bookcases covering one wall boasted of a half-shelf literature.
Paper 4
What stylistic devices are based on the interaction of primary and derivative meanings?
What is included into a group of SDs known as “play of words”?
Describe the difference between put and zeugma.
5. Answer the questions in writing
A.“I was such a lonesome girl until you came”, she said. “There’s not a single man in all this hotel that’s half alive”. “But of am not a single man”, Mr. Topper replied cautiously”.
“Oh, I don’t mean that” she laughed. “And I hate single men. They always propose marriage”.
Translate the text. What are the two meanings of the word “single” that are simultaneously realized in the text?
Indicate what type of play on words is used.
What is your impression of Mr. Topper? Why did he reply cautiously? Was his usual manner or was he some. What frightened by the girl? How did he understand the girl’s words?
What do you seem to know about the girl? Was she a meek and shy person? What did she mean “There’s not a single man … that’s half alive? Can you say that the girl was energetic and boisterous? Was she pretty?
B. The young lady who burst into tears has been put together again.
Translate trying to have the same SD.
Indicate which type of play on words is used; indicate the mechanism of its formation.
How does the author’s choice of a SD affect your attitude to the young lady? Was she in low spirits? Was her sorrow real? Do you sympathize with the lady? What is the affect, created by the SD? Prove you point.