A course of modern english lexicology

ВВЕДЕНИЕ 7
INTRODUCTION TO STYLISTICS 8
1. STYLE AND STYLISTICS 8
2. EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES 9
3. FUNCTIONAL STYLES OF SPEECH 10
QUESTIONS TO LECTURE #1 11
STYLISTIC CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY 12
1. STYLISTICALLY-NEUTRAL WORDS 12
2. STYLISTICALLY-COLOURED WORDS 13
QUESTIONS TO LECTURE #2 15
LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES 16
1. SIMILE 16
2. METAPHOR 17
3. PERSONIFICATION 18
4. ALLUSION 19
5. METONYMY 19
6. SYNECDOCHE 20
7. ANTONOMASIA 21
8. PERIPHRASIS 22
9. EUPHEMISM 22
10. EPITHET 23
11. OVER-STATEMENT (HYPERBOLE) 23
12. UNDER-STATEMENT (MEIOSIS) 24
13. OXYMORON 24
14. ZEUGMA 25
15. PUN 25
16. IRONY 26
17. PARADOX 26
QUESTIONS TO LECTURE #3 28
SYNTACTICAL EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES 29
1. INVERSION 30
2. DETACHMENT 30
3. PARENTHESIS 31
4. ELLIPSIS 31
5. BREAK-IN-THE-NARRATIVE (APOSIOPESIS) 31
6. PARALLELISM 32
7. CHIASMUS (REVERSED PARALLELISM) 33
8. REPETITION 33
9. TAUTOLOGY 34
10. POLYSYNDETON 35
11. ASYNDETON 35
12. ENUMERATION 35
13. RHETORICAL QUESTION 36
14. STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS METHOD 36
QUESTIONS TO LECTURE #4 38
POETIC EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES 39
1. EUPHONY 39
2. METRE 41
QUESTIONS TO LECTURE #5 44
ENGLISH VERSIFICATION 45
1. RHYME 45
2. TYPES OF RHYME 46
3. PATTERNS OF RHYME 47
4. STRUCTURE OF VERSE. STANZA 49
QUESTIONS TO LECTURE #6 53
FUNCTIONAL STYLES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 55
1. STYLE OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS 56
2. SCIENTIFIC PROSE STYLE 56
3. PUBLICISTIC STYLE 58
4. NEWSPAPER STYLE 60
5. BELLES-LETTER STYLE (FICTION) 61