Стилистика английского

Proverbs and sayings
are characterized by certain linguistic features: 
1) rhythm and rhyme: 
e.g. early to bed and early to rise; 
makes a man wealthy, healthy and wise. 
2) alliteration: 
e.g. cut the coat according to the cloth; 
3) brevity (no connectives):
e.g. first come, first served; No cross, no crown. Phraseological 
combinations used as ready-made units in different styles of speech 
(unchanged) are not SDs but EMs, though new content may be poured into 
them. 
 
Proximity 
− nearness in place, time, order, occurrence or relation. 
Publicis 
− referring to writing and speaking on current public or political 
affairs. 
Q 
Question-In-The-Narrattve. 
Usually questions are asked by one person 
and expected to be answered by another. Question-in-the-narrative changes 
the real nature of question and turns it into a SD. It is asked and answered 
by the same person, usually the author. It assumes a semiexclamatory 
nature: 
e.g. "
Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did
" (G. 
Dickens). 
Quotation 
– a SD always even in scientific prose because we raise a 
certain sentence to the level of abstractedness (significance is attached to it 
which it had not in the context). Quotation is a nonce phraseological unit, i.e. 
coined for the occasion: 
e.g. 
"Next to the originator of a good sentence comes the first quoter of
it"

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R
Recur 
− to happen or occur again, appear at intervals 
Recurrence 
− the instance of recurring, return, repetition. 
Regional varieties 
of English reflect the geographical origin of the language 
used by the speaker: Lancashire variety, Canadian English, Cockney, etc. 
Repetition 
− an expressive stylistic means widely used in all varieties of 
emotional speech — in poetry and rhetoric, in everyday intercourse.The 
simplest variety of repetition is just repeating a word, a group of words, or a 
whole sentence: 
e.g. «Scroodge went to bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought it 
over and over and over» (Dickens) 
Stylistic repetition has different functions. It aims at logical emphasis of the 
key-word of the utterance. Repetition is classified according to compositional 
design. 
e.g. Alone, alone, all, all alone. 
alone in a wide, wide sea. 
(Coleridge)
Reported speech
serves to show either the mental reproduction of a once 
uttered remark (uttered represented speech. 1) or the character's thinking 
(inner or unuttered represented speech. 2) The letter is close to the 
personage's interior speech in essence, but differs from it in form: it is 
rendered in the third person singular and may have the author's qualitative 
words, while the interion speech is materialised through the first-person 
pronouns: 
e.g. "
Could he bring a reference from where he. now was? He could
" 
(Th. 
Dreiser). 

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