Lexical stylistic devices

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Lexical Stylistic Devices

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  Metaphor
  

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  Transference of names based on the associated likeness between two objects, as in the “pancake”, or “ball”, or “volcano” for the “sun”; “silver dust”, “sequins”; Kukharenko V.A. “A book of Practice in Stylistics”- Moscow1986 p. 38
  

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  Types: 1. Genuine; 2. Dead; 3. Prolonged;
  

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  Genuine: “Through the open window the dust danced and was golden”; Dead: “floods of tears”; Prolonged: “Mr.N bothled up his vergeabce and cookrd it down”;
  

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   To make the discription concrete; 2. to express the individual attitude;
   

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  Antonomasia
  

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  It is the use of the name of a historical, literary, mythological, or biblical personage applied to a person whose characteristic features resemble those of the well-known original . Skrebnev Y.M. “the basics of English style”- M., 2000 p.117
  

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  Functions
  

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   to characterize person without naming him; 2. to revive the logical meaning of the proper names thus making more apparent the interplay of logical and nominal meanings; 3. to give information to the reader about the name; 4. to point out the leading most characteristic feauture of a person, event;
   

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  Irony
  

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  Is a stylistic device in which the contextual evaluative meaning of a word is directly opposite to its dictionary meaning. Kukharenko V.A. “A book of Practice in Stylistics”- Moscow1986 p. 47.
  
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  Synecdoche
  

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  The simplest kind of metonymy : using the name of a part to denote the whole or vice versa. Skrebnev Y.M. “the basics of English style”- M., 2000 p.110.
  
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  Understatement
  

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  Is the logical and psychological opposite of hyperbole. It is lessening, weakening, reducing the real characteristic of the object of speech. Skrebnev Y.M. “the basics of English style”- M., 2000 p.104.
  

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  Functions
  

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  1.to intensify the quantative or qualitative aspect of an object; 2. to present the latter through the emotionally colored percption; 3. to develop figures of speech such as irony and sarcasm by deliberately decreasing the severity of a situation;
  
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  Pun
  

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  is a SD based on the interaction of 2 well-known meanings of words or a phrase; Podavets O.D. “English stylistics” p 43
  
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  Periphrasis
  

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  is a round - about a way of speaking used to name some object or ohenomenon; Podavets O.D. English stylistics, p. 46
  

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  Types: 1. Logical; 2. Figurative;
  

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  Logical: The object of administration; Figurative: To tie a knot - to get married;
  
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  Proverb
  

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  short, well-known, supposedlyy wise saying, usually in simple language; Ex: Never say never; Podavets O.D., p 47
  

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