Nargiz Yesbulatova

Stylistics is one of the most useful and memorable subjects for me.Despite the fact that we had a little time on this subject we took as much knowledge as we can,and it is big contribution of our teacher.The great pleasure makes this fact that stylistics helps us even in our out of university life,I mean when we read books we meet a lot of SD and EM and think about their meanings, in speech of people we began notice them too)))Thank you Yulia Olegovna!

Repetition Repetition as a stylistic device is a direct successor of repetition as an expressive language means, which serves to emphasize certain statements of the speaker, and so possesses considerable emotive force. It is not only a single word that can be repeated but a word combination and a whole sentence too. As to the position occupied by the repeated unit in the sentence or utterance, we shall mention four main types, most frequently occurring in English literature: 1) anaphora - the repetition of the first word of several succeeding sentences or clauses (a …, a …, a …) "I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her to aerobicize." (Weird Science, 1985) 2) epiphora - the repetition of the final word (… a, … a, … a) "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry…

Litotes Litotes – a two – component structure, in which two negations are foined to give a positive evaluation.For example, rather than saying that something is attractive (or even very attractive), one might merely say it is "not unattractive". Litotes: As a means of saying: "Not bad." "Good." " no ordinary city." " a very impressive city." "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." In this figure of speech, the usages are intentional, ironical and provide emphasis to the words. In literary circles, plenty of poets as well as writers have used this concept to convey strange and vivid im…

A pun is a phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar-soundingwords for humorous or rhetorical effect. A pun may also cause confusion between two senses of the same written or spoken word, due to homophony, homography, homonymy, polysemy, or metaphorical usage. Walter Redfern has said: "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms". ["Puns", Blackwell, London, 1984] Another definition has said that a pun is a word that has two sources used simultaneously (example origin). For example, in the phrase, "There is nothing punny about bad puns", the pun takes place in the deliberate confusion of the implied word "funny" by the substitution of the word "punny", a heterophone of "funny". By definition, puns must be deliberate; an involuntary substitution of similar words is called a m…

Simile is, a comparison (usually introduced by like or as) between two things that are generally not alike--such as a line of migrant workers and a wave, or onion skins and a swarm of butterflies.Writers use similes to explain things, to express emotion, and to make their writing more vivid and entertaining. Metaphors also offer figurative comparisons, but these are implied rather than introduced by like or as. See if you can identify the implied comparisons in these two sentences: The farm was crouched on a bleak hillside, where its fields, fanged in flints, dropped steeply to the village of Howling a mile away. (Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm) Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.…

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Stylistics is a science which deals with expressive means and stylistic devices.The main purpose of the discipline to be able to know these concepts and be able to distinguish them.I think Stylistics will be very usefull for us.It is very close to such disciplines as Interpretation and Analysis of the text,knowledge of Stylistics will help us here(Interpretation and Analysis of the text).Also it will help us during reading any book.