II. Practical assignment

SEMINAR 5

Stylistic Syntax

I. POINTS FOR DISCUSSION:

1. What are the components that make up stylistically unmarked sentence pattern in English?

2. Specify the notion of stylistic means on the syntactical level.

3. What principles stylistic means of English syntax are based on?

4. State the differences between separation, parenthetical clauses, and detachments.

5. What is the difference between a parallel construction and chiasmus?

II. PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT

Task 1. Complete the chart. Provide your own examples of each stylistic means.

stylistic means based on the reduction of the sentence model	stylistic means based on the redundancy of the sentence model	stylistic means based on the violation of word order
___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________	___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________	___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________

Task 2. Complete the chart. Provide your own examples of each stylistic means.

stylistic means based on the peculiar formal and semantic interaction of syntactical constructions	stylistic means based on the transposition of the syntactical meaning in context	stylistic means based on the transformation of the types and means of connection
__________ __________ __________	_________ _________ _________	_________ _________ _________

Task 3. Identify syntactical stylistic means in the following sentences and state their functions.

1. I really don’t think anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. (O. Wilde)

2. Of her father’s being groundlessly suspected, she felt sure. Sure. Sure. (Ch. Dickens)

3. I love my Love, and my Love loves me! (S.T. Coleridge)

4. Women are not made for attack. Wait they must. (J. Conrad)

5. I see what you mean. And I want the money. Must have it. (J.B. Priestly)

6. Then there was something between them. There was. There was. (Th. Dreiser)

7. "The result of an upright, sober and godly life", he laughed. "Plenty of work. Plenty of exercise …" (W.S. Maugham)

8. "Never in my life have I faced sadder duty. It will always be with me."
(Th. Dreiser)

9. She was crazy about you. In the beginning. (R.P. Warren)

10. "She’s brazen, brazen" burst from Mrs. Davidson. Her anger almost suffocated her. (D.H. Lawrence)

11. He ran away from the battle. He was an ordinary human being that didn’t want to kill or be killed, so he ran away from the battle. (S. Heym)

12. Future meant poverty, poverty meant squalor, squalor led, in the final stages, to the smells and stagnation of B. Inn Alley. (D. du Maurier)

13. Bella soaped his face and rubbed his face, and soaped his hands and rubbed his hands, and splashed him, and rinsed him and towered him, until he was as red as beet-root. (Ch. Dickens)

14. Out came the chase – in went the horses – on sprang the boys – in got the travelers. (Ch. Dickens)

15. In manner, close and dry. In voice, husky and low. In face, watchful behind a blind. (Ch. Dickens)

16. "Well, they’ll get the chance now to show – " Hastilly: "I don’t mean – But let’s forget that." (E.O’Neill)

17. Except for the work in the quarries, life at Egdon was almost the same as at Blackstone. "Slopes outside," chapel, privacy. (E. Waugh)

18. And the coach, and the coachman, and the horses, rattled, and jangled, and whipped, and cursed, and swore, and tumbled on together, till they came to Golden Square. (Ch. Dickens)

19. How kind of you, Alfred! She has asked about you, and expressed her intention – her intention, if you please! – to know you. (E. Caldwell)

20. Trouble is, I don’t know if I want a business or not. Or even if I can pay for it, if I did want it. (N. Shute)

Task 4. Read through the commentary on the use of anaphora. Explain the meaning of the word in parenthesis.

Anaphora will repeat an opening phrase or word;

Anaphora will pour it into a mould (absurd)!

Anaphora will cast each subsequent opening;

Anaphora will last until it's tiring.

(J. Hollander)

Task 5. Consider the effectiveness of the anaphoric repetition in the following advertising slogan.

Sir Walter Raleigh. Good food. Good cheer. Good times.

(Sir Walter Raleigh Inn Restaurant, Maryland)

Task 5. Get ready for the presentation on the following topic:

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