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Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of a particular sound in the prominent lifts (or stressed syllables) of a series of words or phrases. Alliteration has developed largely through poetry, in which it more narrowly refers to the repetition of a consonant in any syllables that, according to the poem's meter, are stressed[citation needed], as in James Thomson's verse "Come…dragging the lazy languid Line along". Assonance Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building block of verse. Attachment It is a way of connecting two sentences seemingly unconnected sernanti-cally and leaving to tre reader to grasp the idea implied. The second part ap­pears to be an a…

Inversion Stylistic inversion aims at attaching logical stress or additional emotional colouring to the surface meaning of the utterance. Therefore a specific intonation pattern is the inevitable satellite of inversion. The following patterns of stylistic inversion are most frequently met in both English prose and English poetry. 1. The object is placed at the beginning of the sentence, e.g. Talent Mr.Micawber has, capital Mr.Micawber has not. 2. The attribute is placed after the word it modifies, e. g. With fingers weary and worn. 3. The predicate is placed before the subject, e.g. A good generous prayer it was. 4. The adverbial modifier is placed at the beginning of the sentence. e.g. My dearest daughter, at your feet I fall. 5. Both modifier and predicate stand before the subject, e. g…

Litotes Litotes -is a figure of speech in which understatement is employed for rhetorical effect principally via double negatives. For example, rather than saying that something is attractive (or even very attractive), one might merely say it is "not unattractive". ExamplesLitotes: As a means of saying:"Not bad." "Good.""[...] no ordinary city." Acts 21:39 (NIV) "[...] a very impressive city.""That [sword] was not useless / to the warrior now." (Beowulf lines 1575–1576) "The warrior has a use for the sword now.""He was not unfamiliar with the works of Dickens." "He was acquainted with the works of Dickens.""She is not as young as she was." "She's old.""He's no oil painting." "He's ugly.""Not unlike..." "Like...""You are not wrong." "You are correct." Antithesis Antithesis (Greek for "sett…

Epithet An epithet (from Greek: ἐπίθετον epitheton, neut. of ἐπίθετος epithetos, "attributed, added") or byname is a descriptive term (word or phrase) accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. Epithets may be classified from different standpoints: semantic and structural. Semantically, epithets should be divided into two main groups: affective (associated) and figurative (unassociated). Structurally, epithets can be viewed from the angle of composition and distribution. From the point of view of their compositional structure epithets may be divided into simple, сompound, phrase and sentence epithets. Galperin and Kukharenko classify epithets from at least two standpoints - semantic and structural Semantically epithets are looked at from different angles…

Pun The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. Puns can be classified in various ways: The homophonic pun, a common type, uses word pairs which sound alike (homophones) but are not synonymous. Walter Redfern exemplified this type with his statement "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms". For example, in George Carlin's phrase "Atheism is a non-prophet institution", the word "prophet" is put in place of its homophone "profit", altering the common phrase "non-profit institution". Similarly, the joke "Question: Why do we still have troops in Germany? Answer: To keep the Russians in Czech" relies on the aural ambiguity of…

Simile This is one figure of speech that you may be familiar with from earlier English classes. A simile is a comparison between two unlike things, usually using the words "like" or "as." The presence of these two words tends to make similes easy to identify on a test. A few examples: 1) "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." - Forrest Gump This simile uses the word "like" to compare "life" and "a box of chocolates," two things that we would normally think of as unrelated. The comparison helps to highlight the surprises life often brings our way. Just as we bite into a candy from a variety box of chocolates unsure if the center will be peanut butter or raspberry, we get out of bed each morning unsure what will happen over the course of the day. Simile A…

Hello my name is Karashutova Aigerim! I liked our first lecture of what we discussing and I suppose that stylistics is very interesting and useful subject. I guess we study different stylistic devices and could find them in the texts it will be interesting to know some of them.