ANARA NURGOZHINA

“Repetition is a recurrence of the same word, word combination or phrase for two or more times.”( M. Кузнец, Ю. Скребнев Стилистика английского языка, М., 1960, c. 51) The sentence Christopher Robin said nothing, but his eyes got larger and larger, and his face got pinker and pinker. According to I. Galperin is not a Repetition as a SD proper, but a means by which the excited state of mind of the character is shown. He believes that “when used as a SD Repetition does not aim at making a direct emotional impact. On the contrary, the stylistic device of Repetition aims at logical emphasis. An emphasis that is necessary to fix the attention of the reader on the key-word of the utterance.”(35 I.Galperin Stylistics, M., 1971, p.181) For example, “We woke up in the morning, said Rabbit, and wha…

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.These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or metaphorical language. A pun differs from a malapropism in that a malapropism uses an incorrect expression that alludes to another (usually correct) expression, but a pun uses a correct expression that alludes to another (sometimes correct but more often absurdly humorous) expression. Henri Bergson defined a pun as a sentence or utterance in which "two different sets of ideas are expressed, and we are confronted with only one series of words".Puns may be regarded as in-jokes or…