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

b) Defeated expectancy
Miss Fairfax, ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl... I have met... since I met you. (Wilde)
Defeated expectancy may come up on any level of the language. It may be an unusual word against the background of otherwise lexically homogeneous text.
It may be an author’s coinage with an unusual suffix; it may be a case of semantic incongruity or grammatical transposition. Among devices that are based on this principle we can name pun, zeugma, paradox, oxymoron, irony, anti-climax, etc.
Paradox: Divorces are made in Heaven.(Wilde)
c) Coupling
Coupling deals with the arrangement of textual elements that provide the unity and cohesion of the whole structure. The notion of coupling was introduced by S. Levin in his work “Linguistic Structures in Poetry” in 1962.
Coupling is based on the affinity of elements that occupy similar po­sitions throughout the text. Coupling provides cohesion, consistency and unity of the text form and content.
Like defeated expectancy it can be found on any level of the language, so the affinity may be different in nature; it may be phonetic, structural or semantic.
They are obviously cases of alliteration, assonance, paronomasia (каламбур), as well as such prosodic features as rhyme, rhythm and meter.
Syntactical affinity is achieved by all kinds of parallelism and syntac­tical repetition - anadiplosis, anaphora, framing, chiasmus, epiphora to name but a few.
Semantic coupling is demonstrated by the use of synonyms and antonyms, both direct and contextual, root repetition, paraphrase, sustained metaphor, semantic fields, recurrence of images, connota­tions or symbols.
Some of the well-known symbols are seasons (cf. the symbolic meaning of winter in Robert Frost’s poetry), trees (the symbolic meaning of a birch tree, a maple in Sergei Yesenin’s poetic work, the meaning of a moutain-ash tree for Marina Tsvetaeva), animals (the leopard, hyena, bulk, fish in Ernest Hemingway’s works) and so on.
Lloyd Williams lived in Collieryville, a mining town three or four miles from 10 North Frederick, but separated from the Chapins’ home and their life by the accepted differences of money and prestige; the miners’ poolroom, and the Gibbsville Club; sickening poverty, and four live-in servants for a family of four; The Second Thursdays, and the chicken-and-waffle suppers of the English Lutheran Church. Joe Chapin and Lloyd Williams were courthouse-corridor friends and fellow Republicans, but Joe was a Company man and Lloyd Williams was a Union man who was a Republican because to be anything else in Lantenengo County was futile and foolish. (O’Hara)