Hello my friends! I like Charles Dickens's stories and I want to write about stylistic devices which were used by the writer in the "A Christmas Carol".
1. Repetition - the reoccurrence of sentence units. Words or phrases are repeated throughout the text to emphasize certain facts or ideas.
Example: The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.
2. Anaphora. The same word or phrase is used to begin successive clauses or sentences. Thus, the reader's / listener's attention is drawn directly to the message of the sentence.
Example: No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
3. Polysyndeton is the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted. It is a stylistic scheme used to achieve a variety of effects: it can increase the rhythm of prose, speed or slow its pace, convey solemnity or even ecstasy and childlike exuberance.
Example: The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect.
4. Anticlimax refers to a figure of speech in which statements gradually descend in order of importance.
Example: Also that Scrooge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man in the city of London, even including - which is a bold word - the corporation, aldermen, and livery.
5. Inversion – an indirect order of words in a sentence to make one of them more conpricuous, important, or emphatic.
Example: Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for that.
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Very useful site: http://estylistics.blogspot.com/
Thank you for attention!