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

Figures of inequality:
Specifying, or clarifying synonyms:
"You undevout, sinful, insidious hog," says I to Murkison. (O’Henry)
"Joe was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish dear fellow." (Dickens)
Climax (gradation of emphatic elements growing in strength).
What difference if it rained, hailed, blew, snowed, cycloned? (O’Henry),
Anti-climax (back gradation - instead of a few elements growing in intensity without relief there unexpectedly appears a weak or contrastive element that makes the statement humorous or ridiculous):
Awoman who could face the very devil himself or a mouse—goes all to pieces in front of a flash of lightning. (Twain)
Zeugma (combination of unequal, or incompatible words based on the economy of syntactical units):
She dropped a tear and her pocket handkerchief. (Dickens)
"At noon Mrs. Turpin would get out of bed and humor, put on kimono, airs and the water to boil for coffee." (O’Henry)
Pun (play upon words based on polysemy or homonymy):
What steps would you take if an empty tank were coming toward you? - Long ones.
OFFICER. What steps [= measures] would you take if an enemy tank were coming toward you?
SOLDIER. Long ones.
DICKIE: I suppose you are thinking of Ada Fergusson.
PENELOPE: I confess she hadn't entirely slipped my mind.
DICKIE: Hang Ada Fergusson.
PENELOPE: I think it's rather drastic punishment.
CANNIBAL COOK: Shall I stew both those cooks we captured from the steamer?
CANNIBAL KING: No, one is enough. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Disguised tautology (semantic difference in formally coincidental parts of a sentence, repetition here does not emphasize the idea but carries a different information in each of the two parts):
For East is East, and West is West... (Kipling)
"'Well,' he said vaguely, 'that's that,' and relapsed into a thoughtful silence." (Christie)
"Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world”. (Carlyle)