Стилистика английского

Глоссарий
Acoustic 
− concerned with sound. 
Adherent 
− added shades of
 
meaning. 
Aaffinity
− similarity, inherent likeness. 
Allegory
−
 
a story, poem, painting, etc. in which the characters and actions 
represent general truths, good and bad qualities, etc. 
Alliteration 
− repetition of the same consonant or sound group at the 
beginning of two or more words that are close to each other.
e.g. The fair breeze blew,
The white foam flew,
The furrow followed free. 
(Coleridge)
 
Aallusion
− reference to some literary, historical, mythological, biblical, etc. 
character or event commonly known. 
Anadiplosis 
− repetition of the last word or phrase in one clause or poetic 
line at the beginning of the next.
e.g. «If the International paid well, Aitken took good care he got his pound of 
flesh...» (Chase).
Anaphora 
− repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive 
clauses or lines of verse. Anaphora is the use of identical words at the 
beginning of two or more contiguous sentences or verse lines.
e. g. 
«Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow!
Farewell to the straits and green valleys below!
Farewell to the forests and wild hanging woods!
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods!»
(Burns) 

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Anastrophe 
− a term of rhetoric, which means upsetting for effect of the 
normal order of a preposition before a noun or of an object after a verb, cf. 
inversion. 
Anticlimax 
− a sudden drop from the dignified or important in thought or 
expression to the commonplace or trivial, sometimes for humorous effect.
e. g.
«The woman who could face the very devil himself nr a mouse — loses 
her grip and goes all to pieces in front of a flash of lightnings (Twain).
Antithesis
− opposition or contrast of ideas, notions, qualities in the parts 
of one sentenceor in different sentences.
e. g.
«It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of 
wisdom, it was the age of ffoolishness...» (Dickens).
Antonomasia
− the use of a proper name in place of a common one or vice 
versa to emphasise some feature or quality. Metaphorical antonomasia 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.