- •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 13
1. What is antithesis?
2. What is the difference between antithesis and oxymoron?
3. What are the types of repetition?
3. Discuss the semantic centre and structural peculiarities of antithesis
1. Mrs. Nork had a large house and a small husband. (S.L.)
2. Don’t use big words. They mean so little.
3. I like big parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
4. There is Mr. Guppy, who was at first as open as the sun at noon, but who suddenly shut up as close as midnight. (D.)
5. Such a scene as there was when Kit came in! Such confusions of tongues, before the circumstances were related, and the proofs disclosed! Such a dead silence when all was told! (D.)
6. Rup wished he could be swift, accurate, compassionate and stern instead of clumsy and vague and sentimental. (I.M.)
7. His coat-sleeves being a great deal too long and his trousers a great deal too short, he appeared ill at ease in his clothes. (D.)
8. It is safer to be married to the man you can be happy with, than to the man you cannot be happy without. (E.)
9. Then came running down stairs a gentleman with whiskers, out of breath.(D.)
10. It was the best if times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. (D.)
Paper 14
1. What is the difference between repetition and parallelism?
2. What are the types of repetition?
3. Find cases of different types of repetition, parallelism and chiasmus in w.S Maugham’s novel “Theatre”
4. Define repetition, parallelism and chiasmus
1. I wake up and I’m alone and I walk round Warley and I’m alone; and I talk with people and I’m alone and I look at his face when I’m home and it’s dead.
2. Babbit was virtuous. He advocated, though he did not practice, the prohibition of alcohol; he praised, though he did not obey, the law against motor-speeding.
3. “To think better of it,” returned the gallant Blandois, “would be to slight a lady, to slight a lady would be to be deficient in chivalry towards the sex, and chivalry towards the sex is a part of my character.”
4. I might as well face the facts: good-bye, Susan, good-bye a big car, good-bye a big house, good-bye power, good-bye the silly handsome dreams.
5. I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal.
6. I wanted to knock over the table and him until my arm had no more strength in it, then give him the boot, give him the boot, give him the boot – I drew a deep breath.
7. Now he understood. He understood many things. One can be a person first. A man first and then a black man or a white man.
8. Obviously – this is a streptococcal infection. Obviously.
9. When he blinks, a parrot-like look appears, the look of some heavily blinking tropical bird.
10. and everywhere were people. People going into gates and coming out of gates. People staggering and falling. People fighting and cursing.
11. Failure meant poverty, poverty meant squalor, squalor led, in the final stage, to the smells and stagnation of B. Inn Alley.
12. Living is the art of loving.
Loving is the art of caring.
Caring is the art of sharing.
Sharing is the art of living. (W. H.D.)
If you know anything that is not known to others, if you have any suspicion, if you have any clue at all, and any reason for keeping it in your own breast, …think of me, and conquer that reason and let it be known.
I noticed that father’s is a heavy hand, but never a heavy one when it touches me, and that father’s is a rough voice but never an angry one when it speaks to me.
There lives at last one being who can never change – one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness – who lives but in your eyes – who breathes but in your smile – who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
“Secret Love”, “Autumn Leaves”, and something whose title he missed. Supper music. Music to cook by.