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title: "Stylistic devises and expressive means in use."
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# Stylistic devises and expressive means in use.

> Stylistic devises and expressive means in use. So. I think that we’ve got a good experience visiting...

**Stylistic devises and expressive means in use.**

So. I think that we’ve got a good experience visiting and studding stylistics. Now our background is more. And I hope that everyone can use SD and EM in practice.

Our life is filled with different SD and EM. We can find them everywhere (Literature (stories, novels, poems), movies, politics, etc.)

I want to analyze one of the most favorite poem *“IF”* by Rudyard Kipling

***If*** [iambic pentameter]* *

 

If you can *keep your head* when all about you - metonymy

Are* losing theirs and blaming* it on *you*;
- metonymy

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and *not be tired by waiting*, metaphor

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don't give *way to hating*, metaphor

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; emphatically construction

 

If you can dream - and not *make dreams your master*;
- personification

If you can think - and not make *thoughts your aim*; metonymy

If you can *meet with triumph and disaster* metonymy/ personification

And *treat those two imposters just the same*;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a *trap for fools*, metaphor

Or watch the things you *gave your life to broken*, personification

And stoop and build 'em up with *wornout tools*; occasionalism (metaphor) + alliteration (w,t)

 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one *turn of pitch-and-toss*, metaphor (origin)

And lose, and *start again at your beginnings* metaphor

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can *force your heart and nerve and sinew* metonymy/personification

To serve your turn long after *they are gone*, metaphor/personification

And *so hold on when there is nothing in you* hyperbole

Except the *Will which says* to them: "Hold on"; personification

 

If you can talk with crowds and *keep your virtue*, metaphor

Or walk with kings - nor lose the *common touch*; metaphor

If neither foes nor loving friends (ep) *can hurt you*; metaphor/ hyperbole

If all *men count with* you, but none too much; metaphor

If you can fill the *unforgiving minute* metaphor/epithet

With *sixty seconds' worth of distance run* – metaphor/ hyperbole

* Yours is the Earth* and everything that's in it, hyperbole + hyperbaton

And - which is more - *you'll be a Man my son*! connotation

 

(Repetitions “if”, “and” (Polysyndeton), “you”)

 

And I’ll add some SD from Abama’s speech

Alliteration:

* simple sums spirit*

* trail toward through*

Effect: Gives the text a musical rhythm

Allusion:

* A king who took us to the mountaintop (Martin Luther King) – He wants these patriotic people to remember of his own political*

* moon as our new frontier*

* heal this nation*

* repair the world*

* darkest of the nights*

Effect: to give things a new feeling, to make them unforgettable

Personification:

* the creed that does something*

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