Lecture Stylistics as a science. Problems of stylistic research. Plan

3. Syntactical expressive means and stylistic devices
The principal criteria for classifying syntactical stylistic devices are:
— the juxtaposition of the parts of an utterance;
— the type of connection of the parts;
— the peculiar use of colloquial constructions;

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  the transference of structural meaning.
  

Devices built on the principle of juxtaposition
Inversion (several types) - aims at attaching logical stress or additional emotional colouring to the sur­face meaning of the utterance.:
A tone of most extravagant comparison A few Tox said it in, (Dickens)
Down dropped the breeze. (Colerigde).
Basic types of inversion.
1. The object is placed at the beginning of the sentence:
“Talent Mr. Micawber /mi’ko:bə/ has; capital Mr. Micawber has not.” (David Copperfield).
2. The attribute is placed after the word it modifies (postposition of the attribute). This model is often used when there is more than one attribute, for example:
“With fingers weary and worn...” (Thomas Hood); “Once upon a midnight dreary” (E. A. Poe)
3. a) The predicative is placed before the subject, as in “A good generous prayer it was.” (Mark Twain)
b) the predicative stands before the link-verb and both are placed before the subject, as in
“Rude am I in my speech...” (Shakespeare)
4. The adverbial modifier is placed at the beginning of the sentence, as in:
“Eagerly I wished the morrow.” (Poe) “My dearest daughter, at your feet I fall.” (Dryden)
A tone of most extraordinary comparison Miss Tox said it in.” (Dickens)
5. Both modifier and predicate stand before the subject, as in:
“In went Mr. Pickwick.” (Dickens) “Down dropped the breeze...” (Coleridge).
Detached constructions - sometimes one of the secondary parts of a sentence by some specific consideration of the writer is placed so that it seems formally independent of the word it logically refers to:
She was lovely: all of her-delightful. (Dreiser).
Steyne rose up, grinding his teeth, pale, and with fury in his eyes. (Thackeray)
Sir Pitt came in first, very much flushed, and rather un­steady in his gait. (Thackeray).
Parenthesis - is a qualifying, explanatory or appositive word, phrase, clause, sentence, or other sequence which interrupts a syntactic construc­tion without otherwise affecting it, having often a characteristic into­nation and indicated in writing by commas, brackets or dashes.