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Antithesis. Very often antithesis is combined with other stylistic devices: That 
was a blow, a terrible blow; it was like a death sentence. I stood turned to stone. 
Gradation like many other stylistic devices is a means by which the author 
expresses his evaluation of facts and phenomena. It may be used in different styles of 
speech. In essays it is used for the purpose of arranging the ideas in an ascending 
order of importance. In oratory as well as in the belles-lettres style it is used for 
emotional emphasis. 
1. With a simile: e.g. Man is harsher than iron, harder than stone and more delicate 
than a rose. /R. Christy. Proverbs and Phrases / 
2. With a repetition: e.g. The way of the soldier is the way of death, but the way of 
the Gods is the way of life, /B. Shaw/
The main stylistic function of antithesis is to create a contrast in description and thus 
to emphasize the ideas given in the contrast. 
SD set up on the use of different connectives 
Suspense. Suspense is a deliberate delay in the completion of the idea. It is 
such a SD where the main idea of the sentence, syntactical whole or paragraph is 
kept till the end. The less important parts are placed at the beginning of the utterance. 
In this way the reader’s interest is kept up: 
Well, you don’t look for much of a voice in a comic song. You don’t expect 
correct phrasing or vocalization. You don’t mind if a man does find out, when in the 
middle of a note, that he is too high, and comes down with a jerk. You don’t bother 
about time. You don’t mind a man being two bars in front of the accompaniment and 
easing up in the middle of a line to argue it out with the pianist, and then starting the 
verse afresh. But you do expect the words. (J.K. Jerome) 
We must not neglect the role of intonation in suspense. It creates the desired 
atmosphere of expectation and emotional tension. 
It is necessary to remember that suspense is usually framed in one sentence, 
because of intonation but the sentence may have different clauses expressing 
condition, supposition, time, and the like. All these clauses hold back the conclusion 
of the utterance. 
Sometimes the conclusion of the suspended utterance goes contrary to the 
expectation and then this SD is used for humorous effect.