Farida Smailova

Extract from Dombey and son by Charles Dickens. …On Richards, who was established upstairs in a state of honourable captivity, the dawn of her new life seemed to break cold and grey. Mr Dombey's house was a large one, on the shady side of a tall, dark, dreadfully (epithet, Alliteration) genteel street in the region between Portland Place and Bryanstone Square.' It was a corner house, with great wide areas containing cellars frowned upon by barred windows, and leered at by crooked-eyed (epithet) doors leading to dustbins. It was a house of dismal state, with a circular back to it, containing a whole suite of drawing-rooms looking upon a gravelled yard, where two gaunt trees, with blackened trunks and branches, rattled rather than rustled (alliteration, onomatopoeia), their leaves were so s…

Suspense is a compositional device which consists in arranging the matter of a communication in such a way that the less important,descriptive, subordinate parts are amassed at the beginning, the mainidea being withheld till the end of the sentence. Thus the reader's atten-tion is held and his interest kept up, for example: "Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. wasobliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thou-sand ages ate their meat raw." (Charles Lamb) Sentences of this type are called periodic sentences, orperiods. Their function is to create suspense, to keep the readerin a state of uncertainty and expectation. Here is a good example of the piling up of details so as to create astate of suspense in the listeners: "But suppose it passed; suppos…

Suspense is a compositional device which consists in arranging the matter of a communication in such a way that the less important, descriptive, subordinate parts are amassed at the beginning, the main idea being withheld till the end of the sentence. Thus the reader's atten- tion is held and his interest kept up, for example: "Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thou- sand ages ate their meat raw." (Charles Lamb) Sentences of this type are called periodic sentences, orperiods. Their function is to create suspense, to keep the reader in a state of uncertainty and expectation. Here is a good example of the piling up of details so as to create a state of suspense in the listeners: "But suppose it passed;…

Suspense is a compositional device which consists in arranging the matter of a communication in such a way that the less important, descriptive, subordinate parts are amassed at the beginning, the main idea being withheld till the end of the sentence. Thus the reader's atten- tion is held and his interest kept up, for example: "Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thou- sand ages ate their meat raw." (Charles Lamb) Sentences of this type are called periodic sentences, orperiods. Their function is to create suspense, to keep the reader in a state of uncertainty and expectation. Here is a good example of the piling up of details so as to create a state of suspense in the listeners: "But suppose it passed;…

I'm not sure if I've found all syntactic SD in this story. “She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student; “but in all my garden there is no red rose.” From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale (capitalization)heard him, and she looked out through the leaves, and wondered. “No red rose in all my garden!” he cried, and his beautiful eyes filled with tears. “Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.” “Here at last is a true lover,” said the Nightingale. “Night after night have I sung (inversion) of him, though I knew him not: night after night have I (repetition) told his story to the sta…

Antithesis (антитеза, противопоставление) This denotes a structure that stresses a sharp contrast in meaning between the parts within one sentence: Art is long, life is short; One man's meat is another man's poison; Some people are wise, some otherwise. (B. Shaw) As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but as he was ambitious, I slew him. There's tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour, and death for his ambition. (Shakespeare) Youth is full ofpleasance, Age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, Age like winter weather (ib.) some wellspread examples: Many are called, but few are chosen. One small step for a man, one giant leap for all mankind. Man proposes, God disposes. Love is an ideal thing, ma…

Simile A simile is a comparison between two unlike things, usually using the words "like" or "as." 1) "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." -Forrest Gump 2) "A parson is like a doctor, my boy: he must face infection as a soldier must face bullets." -Candida by George Bernard Shaw Metaphor Unlike a simile, a metaphor states that an object or idea is in some waythe sameas another, seemingly unrelated thing. For example, where a speaker using a simile to insult someone might say, "He's like a rat," a speaker using a metaphor would say something like, "He's a real rat!" Of course, the person being insulted is notliterally a rat; instead, the speaker is using a metaphor to draw a connection between his victim and a rather unsavory animal. Some examples: 1) "…

Hello!!My name is Farida Smailova! I guess studing English Stylistics would be interesting and useful for us. For the first time I thought that at this classes we'll deal only with different stylistic devices, but Stylistisc has many other aspects also.So I'm ready to study this discipline!

P.S. I like the idea of creating a  blog, I've not had experience of using "yvision", and now I know that there are so many interesting things here