A course of modern english lexicology

17. PARADOX

It is a seemingly absurd, though in fact well-founded statement. It is based on contrast. The effect of paradox lies in the fact that no matter how contradictory it may seem it contains a certain grain of truth, which makes it an excellent vehicle of satire.

Paradox Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. (Oscar Wild) Wine costs money, blood costs nothing. (Bernard Show)

QUESTIONS TO LECTURE #3

1. What are lexical stylistic devices based on?
2. What is simile? Give your examples.
3. What is the difference between a simile and an ordinary comparison?
4. What is metaphor? Give your examples.
5. What is a trite metaphor? Give your examples.
6. What is a sustained metaphor?
7. What is personification? Give your examples.
8. What is allusion? Give your examples.
9. What is metonymy? Give your examples.
10. What kind of metonymic relations do you know?
11. What is synecdoche? Give your examples.
12. What is metonymic antonomasia? Give your examples.
13. What is metaphoric antonomasia? Give your examples.
14. What is periphrasis? Give your examples.
15. What is euphemism? Give your examples.
16. What is epithet? Give your examples.
17. What is hyperbole? Give your examples.
18. What is meiosis? Give your examples.
19. What is litotes? Give your examples.
20. What is oxymoron? Give your examples.
21. What is zeugma? Give your examples.
22. What is pun? Give your examples.
23. What is irony? Give your examples.
24. What is paradox? Give your examples.
25. Do the tasks in Supplements 2 and 3. Get ready for a test.


Lecture #4

SYNTACTICAL EXPRESSIVE MEANS
AND STYLISTIC DEVICES