6. Word-building 17. Modern English phraseology 3

30. Syntactical stylistic devices

Syntactical stylistic devices deal with the syntactical arrangement of the utterance, which creates the emphasis of the letter irrespective (?) of the lexical meanings of the employed units.
Repetition as a syntactical stylistic device is a reiteration of the saying word, word-combination, and phrase for two or more times.

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  Ordinary repetition is the repetition of one and the same member of phrase or sentence without any strict regularity.
  
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  Anaphora – the beginning of some successive clauses or sentences is repeated (a …, a …);
  
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  Epiphora – the end of some successive clauses or sentences is repeated (… a, … a);
  
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  Framing – the beginning of the sentence is repeated at the end, thus forming the frame for the non-repeated part (a …, … a):
  
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  Catch repetition is the repetition of end of one sentence (clause) in the beginning of the following one (… a, a …);
  
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  Chain repetition presents several successive catch repetitions (… a, a … b, b … c, c …);
  
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  Successive repetition is a string of closely following each other reiterated units (…, a, a, a).
  

Parallel construction is a stylistic device based on the use of the similar syntactic pattern in two or more sentences or clauses.
E.g.: You know I’m grateful to him. You realize I respect him.
Chiasmus (reversed parallel construction) is the repetition of a syntactical pattern but it has across order of words and phrases. In two successive sentences the word order of one sentence is inverted as compared to that of the other.
E.g.: He loved and was loved by everybody.
Detachment is a syntactical stylistic device consisting in separating a secondary part of a sentence with the aim of emphasizing it.
Inversion is a syntactical stylistic device based on violation of the traditional word order of the sentence, which does not alter the meaning of the sentence only giving it an additional logical impact or emotional colouring.
Asyndeton is connection between parts of sentence without any conjunctions.
Polysyndeton is a syntactical stylistic device based on repeated use of conjunctions in close connection.
Attachment is a syntactical stylistic device based on the deliberate separation of the second part of the utterance from the first one by a full stop.
Break is a figure of speech which consists in breaking the narrative with rhetorical effect. It expresses unwillingness to proceed, the listener can guess by implication what was not verbally expressed.