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

Asyndeton – a deliberate omission of conjunctions.
Attachment – a separation of the second part of the utterance from the first one by a full stop while their semantic and grammatical ties remaining still very strong.
Cacophony – a sense of strain and discomfort in pronouncing and hearing.
Capitalization – a shaping of words in capital letters.
Chain repetition – several successive anadiploses, i.e. the ends of the clauses (sentences) are repeated in the following ones.
Chiasmus – a reversed parallelism, when the second part of a chiasmus is, in fact, inversion of the first construction.
Climax (gradation) – a kind of semantically complicated parallelism in which each next word is logically more important or emotionally stronger and more explicit.
Detachment – a specific arrangement of sentence based on singling out a secondary member of the sentence with the help of punctuation marks – commas, dashes or even a full stop.
Ellipsis – a deliberate omission of at least one member of the sentence which can easily be reconstructed.
Epiphora – a repetition of the end of successive clauses, sentences, and occasionally words.
Epithet – an expressive attributive word, phrase or even sentence, used to characterize an object, giving an individual perception and evaluation of some properties or features of this object.
Euphony – a sense of ease and comfort in pronouncing and hearing.
Framing repetition – a repetition of the beginning of a clause (sentence) in its end, forming a frame for non-repeated part of the sentence (utterance).
Graphon – an intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word (or word combination) used to reflect its authentic pronunciation.
Hyperbole – a deliberate exaggeration of dimensions or other properties of the object.
Hyphenation – a deliberate use of hyphens in graphical shape of a word.
Inversion – a deliberate change of the word order in the sentence when a predicate or its part precedes a subject (except the cases of grammatical inversion in interrogative sentences).