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

Syntagmatlc semasiology or semasiology of sequences deals with semantic relationships expressed at the lengh of a whole text. As distinct from paradigmatic semasiology which studies the stylistic effect of renaming syntagmatic semasiology studies types of names used for linear arrangement of meanings.
Figures of co-occurrence: identical, different or opposite.
Figures of identity:
Simile (an explicit statement of partial identity: affinity, likeness, similarity of 2 objects):
My heart is like a singing bird. (Rosetti)
as dead as a door-nail
as mad as a march hare
as bright as a button
as cool as a cucumber
as blind as a bat
as proud as a peacock
Among ready-made similes there are many without a trace of alliteration:
to fit like a glove
to smoke like a chimney
as fat as a pig
as drunk as a lord
Logical comparison:
She sings like a professional soloist.
He talks French like a born Frenchman.
The changes in agriculture are as slow as they were last year.
She sings like a nightingale. He talks French like a ma­chine-gun.
Our agricultural reform is as slow as a snail.
Similie:
She sings like a nightingale.
He talks French like a ma­chine-gun.
Our agricultural reform is as slow as a snail.
Hyperbolic similes:
"He held out a hand that could have been mistaken for a bunch of bananas in a poor light." (Gardner)
"She heaved away from the table like a pregnant elephant." (ibid.)
The following negative simile is at the same time a litotes:
"His eyes were no warmer than an iceberg." (McBain)
Irony:
"Brandon liked me as much as Hiroshima liked the atomic bomb." (McBain)