May 28, 2012
Epithet as a stylistic device. 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.
May 19, 2012
Stylistic devices are used in speech with the same aim of intensifying the emo-tional or logical emphasis that the information transferred should convey. Stylis-tic devices are represented by two categories: I. "figures of thought" (tropes, from the ...
Jun 11, 2012
Oxymoron (Greek oxys + moros - "pointedly foolish") is a stylistic device the syntactic and semantic structures of which come to clashes. It involves a combination of two contrasting ideas within the same syntactical whole, thus ascribing some ...
May 26, 2012
Allegory a stylistic device based on metaphor. Allegory (Greek alegoria - "description of one thing under the name of another'') has a two-fold meaning: as a stylistic term. i.e. pertaining to the realm of rhetoric, and as a denomination for a genre ...
May 26, 2012
Periphrasis is a stylistic device that consists in the renaming of an object by a phrase that brings out some particular feature of it. Rendering a purely individual perception of the object the device can be decipherable only in context.
May 28, 2012
The social practice of replacing The Taboo words with words or phrases that seem less straightforward, milder, more harmless (or at least less offensive) exists in any language, whereas genuine euphemisms are often an effective stylistic ...
May 26, 2012
Antonomasia (Greek antonomasia-"naming instead") is a trope in which a proper name is used instead of a common noun or vice versa, i.e. a stylistic device, in which the nominal meaning (naming one single individual object) of a proper ...
May 26, 2012
Hence, the general formula for the simile includes the tenor, the vehicle, as well as the element expressing the comparative juxtaposition of the two: Xis like Y. That means that the simile is both lexical and syntactical stylistic device, as a ...
Jun 11, 2012
Stylistic Devices. Study Stylistic Devices Online .... Figures of quantity can often be the final effect of another stylistic device as in: "He didn't appear like the same man; then he was all milk and honey - now he was all starch and vinegar.
May 26, 2012
This tradition of alluding to some well-known works of art and to the experience of the humanity on the whole roots far back in history. The ways in which reference is made differ in form, from a mere quotation up to more sophisticated ones, the ...
Jun 11, 2012
Hyperbole (Greek- "excess, exaggeration") is a deliberate overstatement or exaggeration, the aim of which is to intensify qualitive or quantitative aspects of the object to such a degree as to show its utter absurdity. There was a Young Lady ...
May 19, 2012
Metaphor (Greek metaphora – “transference') is a trope that involves the use of words (word-combinations) in transferred meanings by way of similarity, re-semblance or analogy between them. Let us study the following metaphor: Front Settin ...
May 26, 2012
Transfer by contiguity is based upon a real connection between two objects: that which is named and that the name of which is taken. For instance, the word love in the line above is applied to name the person who inspires this feeling in the ...
May 26, 2012
As well as metonymy, synecdoche can be trite (as in All hands on deck! and The army included two hundred horse and three hundred foot), and genuine. Study the example of the latter: 'She saw around her, clustered about the white tables, ...
May 26, 2012
Personification is the presentation of inanimate objects as if they were human beings or animals, i.e. attributing human properties or some features typical of animals to lifeless objects - mostly to abstract notions, such as thoughts, actions, ...
Mar 24, 2012
Shortenings are coined in two different ways. The first is to make a new word from a syllable of the original word (clipping). The latter may lose its beginning (as in phone made from telephone, fence from defence), its ending (as in hols from ...
Apr 07, 2012
There are two processes of the semantic development of a word: radiation and concatenation. In cases of radiation the primary meaning stands in the centre and the secondary meanings proceed out of it like rays. Each secondary meaning ...
Apr 07, 2012
Secondary Ways of Semantic Changes. There are the following secondary ways of semantic changes: 1. Elevation. It is a transfer of the meaning when it becomes better in the course of time: knight originally meant a boy, then a young servant, ...
Apr 07, 2012
d) the name of some person may become a common noun, e.g. boycott was originally the name of an Irish family who were so much disliked by their neighbours that they did not mix with them. e) names of inventors very often become terms to ...
Apr 07, 2012
c) similarity of function, behaviour: a whip (an official in the British Parliament whose duty is to see that members were present at the voting), a bookworm (a person who is fond of books);. d) similarity of colour: orange, hazel, chestnut. A special ...
Mar 24, 2012
Meaning of: Irony, Hyperbole, Litotes, Euphemism, Genteelism. It is connected with strengthening disapproving evaluative connotation which can become pail of the denotative meaning. This process is determined by social and psychological ...
Oct 09, 2010
It is the coordinator of the language means and stylistic devices which shapes the distinctive features of each style, and not the language means or stylistic devices themselves. Each style however, can be recognized by one or more leading ...
Sep 01, 2010
Changes the real nature of a question and turns it into a stylistic device. A question in the narrative is asked and answered by one and the same person, usually the author. It becomes akin to a parenthetical statement with strong emotional ...
Oct 09, 2010
Chiasmus or Reversed Parallel Construction belongs to the group of stylistic devices based on the repetition of a syntactical pattern; but it has a cross order of words and phrases. The structure of two successive sentences or of a sentence' ...
Aug 28, 2010
Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices. Words in a context may acquire additional lexical meanings not fixed in the dictionaries, what we have called contextual meanings. The latter may sometimes deviate from the dictionary meaning ...
Aug 26, 2010
Alliteration is a phonetic stylistic device which aims at imparting a melodic effect to the utterance. The essence of this device lies in the repetition of similar sounds, in particular consonant sounds, in close succession, particularly at the ...
Aug 27, 2010
Classification of Lexical Stylistic Devices. There are 3 groups of Lexical Stylistic Devices 1. The interaction of different types of lexical meaning. a) dictionary and contextual (metaphor, metonymy, irony); b) primary and derivative (zeugma and ...
Oct 09, 2010
Syntactical stylistic devices are perceived as elaborate designs aimed at having a definite impact on the reader. It will be borne in mind that any stylistic device is meant to be understood a device and is calculated to produce a desired stylistic ...
Aug 31, 2010
Phonetic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices. 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.
Oct 09, 2010
Detached construction, as it were, becomes a peculiar device bridging the norms of written and spoken language. This stylistic device is akin to inversion. The functions are almost the same. But detached construction produces a much ...
Oct 09, 2010
Catachresis - is the (usually intentional) use of any figure of speech that flagrantly violates the norms of a language community. Common forms of catachresis are: -Using a word to denote something radically different from its normal meaning.
Oct 09, 2010
Hyperbaton – is a generic term for changing the normal or expected order of words. E.g. "One as does not a survey makes." The term comes from the Greek for "overstepping" because one or more words "overstep" their normal position and ...
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