Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

ate their meat raw.” 
(
Lamb).
Sentence of this type are called periodic sentences, or periods. Their function is 
to create suspense, to keep the reader in a state of uncertainty and expectation. 
Suspense always requires long stretches of speech or writing. Sometimes the 
whole of a poem is built on this stylistic device, as in this case with Kipling’s poem
“If” where all the eight stanzas consist of if – clause and only the last two lines 
constitute the principle clause: 

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If you can keep your head when all about you are 
 losing theirs and blaming it on you, 
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you 
And make allowance if their doubting too, 
…………………………………………… 
If you can dream and not make dreams your manster, 
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim, 
……………………………………………… 
Yours is the earth everything that’s in it,…. 
And which is more, you’ll be a Man, my son.
The main purpose of this device is to prepare the reader for the only logical 
conclusion of the utterance. 
Sometimes the conclusion of the suspended utterance goes contrary to the 
expectation and then this stylistic device is used for humorous effect.
Climax (gradation
) – is an arrangement of sentences or phrases which secures 
a gradual increase in significance, importance, or emotional tension in the 
utterance[43]. It’s ascending series of words or utterances in which intensity or 
significance increases step by step. 
e. g. Every racing car, every racer, every mechanic, every ice - cream van was also 
plastered with advertising. 
Climax can be logical, emotional or quantitative [52]. 
Logical climax 
is based 
on the relative importance (objective or subjective) of the component parts looked at 
from the point of view of the concepts put in them. Emotive
Climax
–based on the 
relative emotional tension produced by words with emotive meaning. 
Quantitative 
Climax 
is an evident increase in the volume of the corresponding concepts[52]: 
Little 
by little, bit by bit, and day by day, and year by year the baron got the worst of some 
disputed question. (Dickens)

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It helps to show the relative importance of things as seen by the author, or to 
impress upon the reader the significance of the things described by suggested 
comparison, or to depict phenomena dynamically.