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In this post I'd like to write about Litotes - Antithesis - Rhetorical questions. Litotes – a two-component structure, in which two negations are joined to give a positive evaluation. For example: "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." \ Rhetorical questions – a statement reshaped into a question. There is no need to answer on it. For example: "Who let the dogs out?" "Aren't you ashamed of yourself? "Are you stupid?" "Can you do anything right?" "Is the sky blue?" "Yeah, why not?" "What the hell? Antithesis - two points of sharp contrast set one against the other, generally in parallel constructions. For example: Man proposes, God disposes. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voi…

Understatement is a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. As such, understatement can be used to reflect modesty, sarcasm, derogatory or complimentary tone. For example: "He is a little on the old side" - describing a very old person. The opposite of understatement is hyperbole. A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration. These statements are not literally true, but people make them to sound impressive or to emphasize something. For example: I nearly died laughing. I tried a thousand times. Epithet (Greek - "addition") is a stylistic device emphasizing some quality of a person, thing, idea or phenomenon. Its function is to reveal the evaluating subjective attitude of the writer towards the thing described. For e…

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. Examples “You can tune a guitar, but you can’t tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.” “Sir Lancelot once had a very bad dream about his horse. It was a knight mare.” “A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'” Sink your teeth into a good book Some history Puns were found in ancient Egypt, where they were heavily used in development of myths and interpretation of dreams. In China, Shen Tao (ca. 300 BC) used "shih", meaning "power", and "shih", meaning "position" to say t…

On the last lecture we talked about metaphor, simile, metonymy and personification. I would like to tell about simile, metaphor and personification. Simile.... A simile is a figure of speech that indirectly compares two different things by employing the words "like" or "as". For example: She ran like the wind. Explanation: Running and the wind are unlike things. When you compare the speed of running to the speed of the wind, you are using a simile. Metaphor... Metaphor – transference of the characteristics of one phenomenon to another, showing likeness/similarity in things that are basically different (without using “as” or “like”). A metaphor states that a = b. It is an expressive characterization of an object. For example: Time is money. For example: You are my sunshine. (You=Sunshine).…

Hello! My name is Yuliya Zimonina. As I understood from our first lecture, we will study all stylistic devices such as methafor, personification ans so on. Also it will be styles of literary texts. But I didn't knew it and thouth only about styles of every texts and using this styles in our everyday speech. Now I know it's wrong.I think it will be interesting to study stylistics and using this knowledgein our State exam.