Phonetic Stylistic Devices and Graphical Means.
Phonetic Stylistic Devices and Graphical Means. 1. The stylistic devices in poetry and prose The stylistic approach to the utterance is not confined to its structure and sense. There is another thing to be taken into account which, in a certain type of communication plays an important role. This is the way a word, a phrase or a sentence sounds. The sound of most words taken separately will have little or no aesthetic value. A word may acquire a desired phonetic effect only in combination with other words. 2. The functions of phonetic stylistic devices 1. Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia is a combination of speech sounds which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature (wind, sea, thunder, etc. – splash, bubble, rustle, whistle) by things (machines or tools, etc. - buzz) by people (singing, laug…