Interjections and their types
Interjections are words or phrases that are inserted into a sentence to express an emotion or to clarify something.
There are three types of interjection:
volitive, emotive, and cognitive
.
Lexical Stylistic Devices: Hyperbole, Irony
Irony is a stylistic device also
based on the simultaneous realization of two logical meanings - dictionary and
contextual, but the two meanings are in opposition to each other
. The literal meaning is the opposite of the intended
meaning. Irony is based on the opposition of what is said to what is meant.
Hyperbole
is the use of exaggeration as
a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis
Rhyme as a stylistic device
Rhyme is a literary device, featured particularly in poetry, in which
identical or similar concluding syllables in
different words are repeated
. Rhyme most often occurs at the ends of poetic lines. In addition, rhyme is principally
a function of sound rather than spelling.
Difference between periphrases and euphemism.
If you only use a definition instead of the word it is a periphrasis. If you want to use another word or definition in
place of one you think is too harsh when referring to something unpleasant then such device is called euphemism.
The classification of the English vocabulary.
The common literary, neutral and common colloquial words are grouped under the term
STANDARD ENGLISH
VOCABULARY
. Other groups in the literary layer are regarded as special literary vocabulary and those in the colloquial
layer are regarded as special colloquial (non- literary) vocabulary.
The vocabulary can be divided into three main
layers:
neutral, literary, colloquial
.
Lexical Stylistic Devices: Epithet
Epithet is a descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making
the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent than they actually are.
Epithet is
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