- •After working through these parts, students will be able to start their independent stylistic analysis. Chapter I guide to stylistic devices
- •Lexical stylistic devices
- •Stylistic Devices Based on the Interaction between the Logical and Nominal Meanings of a Word Antonomasia
- •Stylistic Devices Based on the Interaction between Two Logical Meanings of a Word
- •Stylistic Devices Based on the Interaction between the Logical and Emotive Meanings of a Word
- •Exercises
- •Syntactical stylistic devices
- •Exercises
- •Lexico-syntactical stylistic devices
- •Exercises
- •Graphical and phonetic expressive means
- •Exercises
- •List of abbreviated names
- •Chapter II samples of stylistic analysis of poetry and prose pieces sample I
- •Sonnet XXVII
- •Sonnet lxv
- •Sample II the bells
- •Sample III
- •Sample IV Chapter XIX “Ahab” (1) from moby dick
- •Find all examples of simile in the text.Comment upon the structure and size of the similes.
- •Read attentively the description of a great tree. What means make this description realistic? Comment upon the meaning of the verbs used in this description. Sample V the picture of dorian grey
- •Chapter III on stylistic register
- •1.Read the following and see what differences you notice between them in form, vocabulary, structure. Then read the notes.
- •2. Similar to the above-given example change the following sentences for as many various registers as possible:
- •1) He ran quickly into the shop, knocking over an old woman. 2) She drove angrily up the hill, shouting through the window.
- •Chapter IV
- •Coupling
- •Defeated Expectancy
- •Convergence
- •Salient Feature
- •Part II. Theory of Information
- •The Process of Communication
- •Basic Terms
- •Adaptation of Shannon’s Model
- •The Interaction of Various Codes
- •Anthem for Doomed Youth
- •Part III. Norm and Deviation Preliminaries
- •Ozimandias*
- •Список литературы
- •Оглавление
2. Similar to the above-given example change the following sentences for as many various registers as possible:
1) He ran quickly into the shop, knocking over an old woman. 2) She drove angrily up the hill, shouting through the window.
Suggestions for various registers for sentence # 1:
You should have seen;
Knocked over; blue-eyed, 25-year-old bachelor;
Like lightning, a poor old lady;
Hurrying shopper, public danger;
A sight to upset all those who care;
Strong desire to run, unaware of;
Action-filled, adventurous, most unusual, original;
Into the premises of Messrs Smith and Company, came into collision with;
Ladies and gentleman of the jury, You have heard this morning how...;
SHOPPER-IN-A-HURRY;
Bloke, old girl;
Shot into, flew into, tore into, tipping over, overturning.
3. Read the passage from the story “By Courier” by the American writer O’Henry. The humorous effect is based on the difference in stylistic registers. Find stylistic devices and expressive means which make the second passage different from the first one:
The original message: “Tell her I am on my way to the station, to leave for san Fransisco, where I shall join that Alaska moosehunting expedition. Tell her that, since she has commanded me neither to speak nor to write to her, I take this means of making one last appeal to her sense of justice, for the sake of what has been. Tell her that to condemn and discard one who has not deserved such treatment, without giving him her reason or a chance to explain its contrary to her nature as I believ it to be.”
The message was delivered as follows: “ He told me to tell yer he’s got his collars and cuffs in dat grip for a scoot clean out to ‘Frisco. Den he’s goin to shoot showbirds in de Klondike. He says yer told him to send ‘round no more pink notes nor come hangin’ over de garden gate, and he takes dis mean of putting yer wise. He says yer referred to him like a has-been, and never give him no chance to kick at de decision. He says yer swiled him and never said why.”
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third person pronouns, declaratives.
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