Irony Irony is a stylistic device also based on simultaneous realisation of two meanings: dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other

Task 4. Answer to the questions.

1. 
   What is irony, what lexical meaning is employed in its formation?
   

Irony is a stylistic device also based on simultaneous realisation of two meanings: dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other.

2. 
   What types of irony do you know? What is the length of the context needed for the realization of each of them? Two types.
   

3. 
   What are the most frequently observed mechanisms of irony formation? Can you explain the role of the repetition in creating irony?
   

The device consists of repeating the same verb in two consecutive sentences in a passage but changing the context of use in such a way as to express irony. In both cases the irony is achieved by a change of the subject and a shift of the complement of the verb from the first sentence to the second

4. 
   What lexical meaning is instrumental in the formation of epithets?
   

Epithet is a stylistic device based on interaction of emotive and logical meanings in an attributive word, phrase or sentence. Thus in «charming smile» besides logical meaning, there is also an emotive meaning."

5. 
   What semantic types of epithets do you know?
   

Fixed epithet
Argumentative epithet
Kenning epithet

6. 
   What structural types of epithets do you know?
   
7. 
   What parts of speech are predominantly used as epithets and why
   

noun ,Attribute

8. 
   What is an oxymoron and what meanings are foregrounded in its formation?
   

Oxymoron is such a combination of words in which the meaning of the word describing the thing and the word denoting the thing are contradictory in sense.

9. 
   Why are there comparatively few trite oxymorons and where are they mainly used?
   

It should be noted that the logical meaning in oxymoron being suppressed is not lost completely. If the logical meaning lost, there is no SD. We call it trite oxymoron:
awfully nice, awfully glad, terribly sorry.