Stylistics, sometimes called linguo-stylistics, is a branch of general

SYNTACTICAL EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES
 ANTITHESIS 
 
Plan
1. General Considerations 
2. Problems Concerning the Composition of Spans of Utterance Wider than the Sentence 
2.1. The Syntactical Whole
2.2. The Paragraph
3. Compositional Patterns of Syntactical Arrangement
3.1. Stylistic Inversion 
3.2. Detached Construction 
Syntactical whole is used to denote a larger unit than a sentence. It generally comprises a number 
of sentences interdependent structurally (usually by means of pronouns, connectives, tense-forms) 
and semantically (one definite thought is dealt with). 
Such a span of utterance is also characterized by the fact that it can be extracted from the context 
without losing its relative semantic independence. This cannot be said of the sentence, which, 
while representing a complete syntactical unit may, however, lack the quality of independence, A 
sentence from the stylistic point of view does not necessarily express one idea, as it is defined in 
most manuals of grammar. It may express only part of one idea. Thus the sentence: "Guy glanced 
at his wife's untouched plate" if taken out of the context will be perceived as a part of a larger span 
of utterance where the situation will be made clear and the purport of verbal expression more 
complete. 
A paragraph is a graphical term used to name a group of sentences marked off by indentation at 
the beginning and a break in the line at the end. But this graphical term has come to mean a 
distinct portion of a written discourse showing an internal unity, logical in character. In fact the 
paragraph as a category is half linguistic, half logical. As a logical category it is characterized by 
coherence and relative unity of the ideas expressed, as a linguistic category it is a unit of utterance 
marked off by purely linguistic means: intonation, pauses of various lengths, semantic ties which 
can be disclosed by scrupulous analysis of the morphological aspect and meaning of the 
component parts, etc. It has already been stated elsewhere that the logical aspect of an utterance 
will always be backed up by purely linguistic means causing, as it were, an indivisible unity of extra-
linguistic and intra-linguistic approach.