Стилистика английского

Comparative stylistics
− connected with the contrastive study of more than 
one language. 
Connotation 
− idea or notion suggested by or associated with a word, 
phrase, etc. in addition to its denotation. 
Connotative 
− having connotations. 
Convergence
− concentration of various devices and expressive means in 
one place to support an important idea and ensure the delivery of the 
message. 
Couplet
− two successive lines of poetry, esp. of the same length that 
rhyme. 
Coupling
− the affinity of elements that occupy a similar position and 
contribute to the cohesion of the text. 
D
Dactyl
− a metrical foot that consists of one accented syllable followed by 
two unaccented ones. 
Decoding stylistics. 
If we analyse the text from the author's (encoding) 
point of view we should consider the epoch, the historical situation, the 
personal political, social and aesthetic views of the author. 
But if we try to treat the same text from the reader's angle of view we shall 
have to disregard this background knowledge and get the maximum 
information from the text itself (its vocabulary, composition, sentence 
arrangement, etc.). an attempt to harmoniously combine the two methods of 
stylistic research and enable the scholar to interpret a work of art with a 
minimum loss of its purport and message. 
Denotative
− indicative of the direct explicit meaning or reference of a word 
or
 
term,. 

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Detachment
− a seemingly independent part of a sentence that carries 
some additional information.
e.g. 
«Smither should choose it for her at the stores — nice and dappled»