6. Word-building 17. Modern English phraseology 3

29. Phonetic and Graphical stylistic devices

Phonetic stylistic devices

The existing models of organizing speech or sounds can be divided into two groups: versification and instrumentation.
Versification is from latin “versus” – стих, “facio” – делаю. Versification is the art of creating poetry according to the rules of a certain language and poet’s practice (varieties of poetic feet and metres, rhymes and rhyming patterns).
Instrumentation is the some of speech sound selection and combination message foregrounding the utterance thus creating expressive and emotive connotations (euphony - благозвучие, cackophony – неблагозвучие, alliteration, assonance, onomatopheia).
Onomatopheia is a combination of speech sounds, which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature (wind, sea, thunder), by things (machines or tools), and by people (laughter, sighing, patter of feet).
Ку-ка-ре-ку – cock-a-doo-dle-do; мяу – mew; тик-так - tick-tack.
Things falling into the water: a coin - “plop”; smth larger (dog) – “splash”; human body – “splosh”.
Balloon (пробка от шампанского) – “pop”, “bang”.
Alliteration is a figure of speech which consists in the repetition of consonants (especially initial) in words in close succession.
Assonance is a figure of speech based on the repetition sounds or diphthongs without reguard of consonants, the kind of vowel rhyme.
e.g. How sad and bad and mad it was (Browning).
Graphical stylistic devices
They serve to convey in the written form the effects which in the oral type of speech are expressed by intonation and stresses.
We refer here the emphatic use of the punctuation and deliberate change of the spelling of a word.
Graphon is the intentional vacation of the graphical shape of a word (word combination) used to reflect its authentic pronunciation.
Graphons indicate irregularities, carelessness of pronunciation, foreign accent.

Pure Graphical Stylistic Devices

Multiplication: laaarge, r-r-ruin
Hyphonation: I en-vy her
Capitalization: I Love him
The use of italics, the use of punctuation: I Love him!!!