Represented speech (non-personal direct speech). There is also a device which coveys to the reader the unuttered or inner speech of the character, his thoughts and feelings. This device is also termed represented speech. To distinguish between the two varieties of represented speech we call the representation of the actual utterance through the author's language "uttered represented speech", and the representation of the thoughts and feelings of the character “unuttered or inner represented speech”.
Peculiarities:
1) the absence of quotation marks
2) the usage of the 3rd person sg- mostly
3) the specific choice of vocabulary
4) question and exclamatory marks in narrative
5) the great degree of emotional tension
6) the usage of interjections
5. Syntactical Stylistic Devices Based on Stylistic Use of Structural Meaning
Rhetorical question is a statement in a form of a question, that expects no answer. It is asked in order to make a statement rather than to get a reply. They are frequently used in dramatic situation and in publicistic style.
e. g. What was the good of discontented people who fitted in nowhere?
Litotes - is a use of two negative notions for creating a positive one. Its function is to convey doubts of the speaker concerning the exact characteristics of the object or a feeling, irony, restraint.
e.g. It's not a bad thing - It's a good thing.
e.g. He is no coward. He is a brave man.
e.g. He was not without taste.
e.g. He is no fool.
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