- •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 7
What stylistic devices are based on the interaction between the logical and emotive meanings?
What is hyperbole?
What stylistic device has the same mechanism as hyperbole?
What is oxymoron?
What is the usual pattern of oxymoron?
Give your own examples of hyperbole, understatement and oxymoron.
7. In the following examples concentrate on cases of hyperbole and understatement. Translate the sentences.
1. I was scared to death when he entered the room. (S.)
2. The girls were dressed to kill. (J.Br.)
3. Newspapers are the organs of individual men who have jockeyed themselves to be party leaders, in countries where a new party is born every hour over a glass of beer in the nearest cafe. (J.R.)
4. I was violently sympathetic as usual. (Jn. B.)
The car which picked me up on that particular guilty evening was a Cadillac limousine about seventy - three blocks long. (IB.)
Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old. (Sc.F.)
She was a giant of a woman. Her bulging figure was encased in a green crepe dress and her feet overflowed in red shoes. She carried a mammoth red pocketbook that bulged throughout as if it were stuffed with rocks. (Fl. O'C).
She was very much upset by the catastrophe that had befallen the Bishops, but it was exciting, and she was tickled to death to have someone fresh to whom she could tell all about it. (S.M.)
The little woman, for she was of pocket size, crossed her hands solemnly on her middle. (G.)
10. She wore a pink hat, the size of a button. (J.R.)
11. And if either of us should lean toward the other, even a fraction of an inch, the balance would be upset.(O.W.)
12. He smiled back, breathing a memory of gin at me. (W.G.)
13. She busied herself in her midget kitchen. (T.C.)
Translate the following sentences, pay attention to oxymoron.
He caught a ride home to the crowded loneliness of the barracks. (J.)
Sprinting towards the elevator he felt amazed at his own cowardly courage.
They were a bloody miserable lot - the miserablest lot of men I ever saw. But they were good to me. Bloody good. (J. St.)
He behaved pretty lousily to Jan. (D.C.)
Well might he perceive the hanging of her hair in fairest quantity in locks, some curled and some as if it were forgotten, with such a careless care and an art so hiding art that she seemed she would lay them for a pattern. (Ph.S.)
There were some bookcases of superbly unreadable books. 7. Heaven must be the hell of a place. Nothing but repentant sinners up there, isn't it?" (Sh. D.)
8. Harriet turned back across the dim garden. The lightless light looked down from the night sky. (I.M.)
9. Sara was a menace and a tonic, my best enemy; Rozzie was a disease, my worst friend. (J. Car.)
10. It was an open secret that Ray had been ripping his father-in-law off.
11. A neon sign reads "Welcome to Reno - the biggest little town in the world." (A.M.)
12. Haven’t we here the young middle -aged woman who cannot quite compete with the paid models in the fashion magazine but who yet catches our eye? (J.H.)
13. Their bitter - sweet union did not last long. (A.C.)
14. You have got two beautiful bad examples for parents.
15. She was a damned nice woman, too.