Ii give the name of a stylistic device to the following definitions.

SEMINAR 4

I QUESTIONS FOR SELF-CONTROL

1. What is a rhetorical question?

2. What types of repetition do you know?

3. Comment on the functions of repetition which you observed in your reading.

4. Which type of repetition have you met most often? What, in your opinion, makes it so popular?

5. What constructions are called parallel?

6. Have you ever observed chiasmus? What is it?

7. What syntactical stylistic devices dealing with arrangement of sentence members do you remember?

8. What types of inversion do you know? Which of them have you met more often and why?

9. What is suspense, how is it arranged and what is its function?

10. What do you know about detachment and punctuation used with detached sentence members?

11. What sentence members are most often detached?

12. What syntactical stylistic devices deal with the completeness of sentence-structure?

13. What types of ellipses do you know and where is each of them used predominantly?

14. What types of connecting syntactical units do you know? Which of them are used to create additional information and achieve a specific effect?

15. Speak about asyndeton and its functions.

16. Discuss polysyndeton. Give some examples from your reading.

17. What is attachment? When and where is it used? Have you met it in your reading?

18. What do you know about antithesis? Why is it viewed separately from parallel constructions?

19. Speak about the SD of climax and its types.

20. In what way does the structure of an emotive climax differ from that of other types?

21. What is a litotes?

22. What is there in common between litotes and understatement?

23. Describe most frequently used structures of litotes.

24. What is represented speech and which of its types have you met more often?

25. Classify |Syntactical Stylistic Devices.

II GIVE THE NAME OF A STYLISTIC DEVICE TO THE FOLLOWING DEFINITIONS.

1 A series of ideas, images, arranged progressively so that the most forceful is the last.

2 A lexical stylistic device in which emphasis is achieved through conscious exaggeration which is not meant to be taken literally.

3 A two-component structure in which two negations are joined to give a positive evaluation.

4 A device of suddenly breaking off in the middle of a sentence as if unwilling to continue.

5 An intentional combination of two contradictory terms.

6 A figure of speech based on transfer by contiguity in which a part is used for a whole, an individual for a class, a material for a thing or the reverse of any of these; a variety of metonymy.

7 The inversion of the second of two parallel phrases or clauses.

8 The use of several conjunctions in close succession, esp. where some might be omitted.

9 A figure of speech in which the proper name of a distinguished historical, literary or mythological hero is applied to a person having the same characteristics.

10 A word or phrase used to replace an unpleasant word or expression by a conventionally more acceptable one.

11 A stylistic device that consists in withholding the most important information or idea till the end of the sentence, passage or text.

12 A reversal of the normal order of words in a sentence

13 A figure of speech, which draws comparison between two different objects in one or more aspects (an imaginative comparison). The sign of comparison of two objects is directly mentioned.

14 Connection between parts of a sentence or between sentences without any formal sign.

15 An indirect, abstract, roundabout method of stating ideas;

16 A peculiar way of connection sentences which seem to be logically unconnected.

17 The omission of a word or words necessary for the complete syntactical construction of a sentence, but not necessary for understanding it.

18 A stylistic device in which a secondary member of the sentence (usually an attribute or adverbial modifier) is put at some distance from its headword, and is separated from the rest of the sentence by punctuation marks (commas, dashes or even a full stop).

19 A stylistic device based on the interplay of emotive and logical meaning of an attributive word or phrase used to characterize an object so as to give an individual perception and evaluation of some features or properties.

20 The opposition or contrast of ideas, notions, qualities in the parts of one sentence or in different sentences.

21 The repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses, sentences or stanzas.

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