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Stress (logical & emphatic) is stylistically relevant. Excitement is rendered by emphatic stress, change in the pitch and the range of the voice.

Pause may perform different stylistic functions. It is stylistically loaded when it is suggestive of the emotional state of the speaker. Silence can imply disagreement, disapproval, or that the speaker is confused, surprised, etc. A long pause may show that the person is thinking over the matter. Short frequent pauses render embarrassment or strong excitement. In the line of print the expectation of a pause is shown by dash (-), fullstop (.), suspension marks (…), etc.

The author’s phonetic means in creating expressiveness and emotional colouring deal with the sound aspect of speech, mainly with the choice of words, their specific arrangement and repetition. All this is studied by Euphony (теория благозвучия). A significant role in Euphony is played by repetition of certain sounds on which a number of phonetic SDs is based.

Onomatopoeia is a combination of speech-sounds which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature (wind, sea, thunder, etc.), by things (machines and tools), by people (singing, laughter, patter of feet, etc.) and by animals. Combinations of speech sounds of this type will inevitably be associated with whatever produces the natural sound.

There are two types of onomatopoeia:

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  Direct (which displays itself in words imitating natural sounds) The degree of imitation may be different. Some words at once remind us of things producing sounds, others need our efforts to be decoded.
  

E.g. ding-dong; buzz; bang, cuckoo; mew, etc.

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  Indirect (is formed by sounds which make the utterance an echo of its sense). It requires the mention of the thing which is the source of the sound.