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

Successive repetition – a string of closely following each other reiterated units.
Suspense – a deliberate postponing of the end of the sentence or paragraph.
Synecdoche – transference of names based on the relations between the part and the whole.
Understatement (meiosis) – a deliberate lessening, weakening, reducing of the real characteristics of the object.
Zeugma – a deliberate combination of two or more semantically heterogeneous, or even incompatible, words with the same verb.


TEST
I. Find corresponding stylistic devices of the following definitions:

1. 
   A hint of something, presumably known to the reader, frequently from literature or mythology.
   

1. 
   A kind of repetition in which the opening word is repeated at the end of a sense-group or a sentence (in prose) or at the end of a line or stanza (in verse).
   

2. 
   The sudden breaking off in speech, without completing a thought, as if the speaker was unable or unwilling to state what was in his mind.
   
3. 
   A stereotyped expression, a trite phrase that has lost its novelty through frequent usage (in newspapers).
   
4. 
   A syntactic stylistic figure consisting in separating a secondary member of a sentence with the aim of emphasizing it.
   
5. 
   A figure of speech in which an inoffensive word or expression is substituted for an unpleasant one.
   
6. 
   A syntactic figure of speech in which a member of ideas are so arranged that each succeeding one rises its preceding element in expressiveness, or force.
   
7. 
   A stylistic device in which the negative contextual meaning of a word is realized through a positive dictionary meaning for purpose of ridicule.
   
8. 
   A stylistic device based on resemblance of things belonging to different classes, the comparison between them is implied
   

10. The use of a word in more than one meaning, a play on words.

1. 
   pun, b) gradation, c) detachment, d) cliché, e) metaphor, f) framing,
   

g) aposiopesis, h) irony, i) allusion, j) euphemism.