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

'Extended', or 'sustained' similes:
"They eased me through a door as if I were a millionaire invalid with four days to live, and who hadn't as yet paid his doctor's bill."(Chase)
"The rye bread was a little dry and the chicken looked as if it had a sharp attack of jaundice before departing this earth." (Chase)
Quasi-identity.
Another problem arises if we inspect certain widespread cases of 'active identification' usually treated as tropes; when we look at the matter more closely, they turn out to be a special kind of syntagmatic phenomena - 'tropes predicated' or perhaps 'tropes pre-deciphered':
Your neighbour is an ass
Jane is a real angel
Other types of illogical identification: cases when the subject (theme, topic) and the predicative (rheme, comment) do not imply comparison, do not claim similarity, but expressly point out a real connection between the two objects:
"That old duffer? He's oil, I guess."
"Caracas is in Venezuela, of course." "What's it like?"
"Why, it's principally earthquakes and Negroes and monkeys and malarial fever and volcanoes." (O’ Henry)
Some of quasi-identities manifest special expressive force, chiefly when the usual topic — comment positions change places: the metaphoric (metonymical) name appears in the text first, the direct, straightforward denomination following it:
"The machine sitting at that desk was no longer a man: it was a busy New York broker." (O’ Henry)
"... she shot at me with two blue pellets which served her as eyes." (Chandler)
Synonymous replacements – the use of synonyms or synonymous phrases to avoid monotony or as situational substitutes:
He brought home numberless prizes. He told his mother countless stories. (Thackeray)
I was trembly and shaky from head to foot.
You undercut, sinful, insidious hog. (O’Henry)