Useful Phrases and Clichés

• The syntax of the narration as a whole may be characterized as elaborate. It abounds in short/ long sentences.

• Syntactical constructions/ devices enabled the author to produce the stylistic effect of…

• The stylistic syntax aims at focusing/ expansion/ compressed information.

• Another distinctive feature of the syntactic-stylistic media is…

• Focusing/ expansion/ compression of the information is achieved by paradigmatic compression, asyndeton, ellipsis, suspense, parenthesis, enumeration, parallel constructions…

• The syntax is widely used to reflect/ bring home to the reader/ render/ convey/ reveal/ enhance the atmosphere of official/ unofficial communication, spontaneity of speech, speaker’s state of mind.

• to foreground logical emphasis

• to get insight into

• to produce an effect of

• …deserves a special comment

• It should be possibly stressed

• The sentence structure is (predominantly) simple/ complicated by the following predicative complexes…

• It makes the reader feel/ aims at exciting/ evoking the feeling of the sense of immediate presence/ being a witness of

• It brings out a particularly logical (complex, confused), philosophical (moral, social) consideration (observation).

Reading Advice

1. Арнольд И.В. Стилистика современного английского языка/ стилистика декодирования/. – М.: Просвещение, 1990.

2. Борисова Л.В. Практическое пособие по интерпретации текста /проза/. На англ. языке. – Минск: Вышейшая школа, 1987. – 103 с.

3. Гальперин И.Р. Стилистика английского языка /на англ. яз./. – М.: Высшая школа, 198.

4. Єфімов Л. П., Ясинецька О.А. Стилістика англійської мови і дискурсивний аналіз. Учбово-методичний посібник. – Вінниця: Нова Книга, 2004. –

5. Kukharenko V.A. A Book of Practice in Stylistics. – M.; Vyshaya Shkola, 1986.