A course of modern english lexicology

Stream of Consciousness Oh, God, please don’t let her die. I’ll do anything for you if you don’t let her die. Please, please, please, dear God, don’t let her die […] you took the baby but don’t let her die. That was all right but don’t let her die. Please, please, dear God, don’t let her die. (Hemingway)

QUESTIONS TO LECTURE #4

1. What are syntactical stylistic devices based on?
2. What is inversion? Give your examples.
3. Where can you often find inversion?
4. What is detachment? Give your examples.
5. What is parenthesis? Give your examples.
6. What is the difference between parenthesis and ellipsis?
7. Give your examples of ellipsis.
8. What is aposiopesis? Give your examples.
9. What is parallelism? Give your examples.
10. How are gradation and antithesis connected with parallelism?
11. What is chiasmus? Give your examples.
12. What is repetition? List the types of repetition depending on the part of the sentence repeated.
13. What is tautology? Give your examples.
14. What is polysyndeton? Give your examples.
15. What is asyndeton? Give your examples.
16. What is enumeration? Give your examples.
17. What is rhetorical question? Give your examples.
18. What is stream of consciousness method? Give your examples.


Lecture #5

POETIC EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES

1. EUPHONY
A. Allliteration
B. Assonance
C. Sound Symbolism
D. Rhythm
E. Rhyme
2. METRE
A. Trochee
B. Iambus
C. Dactyl
D. Amphibrach
E. Anapest

Poetic expressive means and stylistic devices are aimed at producing a pleasant acoustic effect and arousing certain emotions of the reader or listener. They are based on the acoustic effect produced by the words and sentences.