Table of contents Предисловие Tasks for seminars Sentences and extracts for analysis

25. when life is quite through with
when life is quite through with
and leaves say alas,
much is to do
for the swallow, that closes
a flight in the blue;
when love's had his tears out,
perhaps shall pass
a million years
(while a bee dozes
on the poppies, the dears;
when all's done and said, and
under the grass
lies her head
by oaks and roses
deliberated.)
e.e. cummings

APPENDIX II

Definitions of SD
Alliteration –a repetition of consonants, usually in the beginning of words.
Anadiplosis (catch repetition) – a kind of repetition when the end of one clause (sentence) is repeated in the beginning of the following one.
Anaphora –a repetition of the beginnings of words, clauses or sentences.

Anticlimax (bathos, back gradation) – a climax suddenly interrupted by an unexpected turn of the thought which defeats expectations of the reader (listener) and ends in complete semantic reversal of the emphasized idea.

Antithesis – a stylistic opposition based on the relative opposition which arises out of the context through the expansion of objectively contrasting pairs, often built in the form of parallel constructions.
Antonomasia – a use of a proper name instead of a common noun or vice versa, in the latter case often fulfilling the function of a “speaking name”.
Apokoinu construction – the omission of the pronominal (adverbial) connective, which creates a blend of the main and the subordinate clauses so that the predicative or the object of first one is simultaneously used as the subjext of the second one.
Aposiopesis (break-in-the-narrative) – a sudden incompleteness of sentence or utterance structure due to emotional or/ and psychological state of the speaker.
Assonance –a repetition of vowels, usually in stressed syllables.