Valentina Gersonskaya East Kazakhstan State University October 2010

Valentina Gersonskaya East Kazakhstan State University October 2010 Stylistic Devices 1

Тропы Авторские e.g. She was handsome in a rather leonine way. Where this girl was a lioness, the other was a panther - lithe and quick. Стертые e.g. I haven’t seen you for ages! 2

Гипербола e.g. The girls were dressed to kill. (J.Br.) Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old. (Sc.F.) I’d give worlds for it. 3

Мейозис e.g. She wore a pink hat, the size of a button. (J.R.) I kind of like it. Would you mind getting the hell out of my way? 4

Литота e.g. I did it not without his assistance. “…she was not unlike Morgiana in the ‘ Forty Thieves’. (Ch. D.) 5

Метонимия e.g. “Give every man thine ear and few thy voice.” (W.Sh.) Then they came in. Two of them, a man with long fair mous­taches and a silent dark man... Definitely, the moustache and I had nothing in common." (D. Lessing) I was followed by a pair of heavy boots. 6

Синекдоха e.g. Hands wanted! How dare you speak like that to ladies? The student is expected to know… 7

Перифраза e.g. He was shouting some choice Anglo-Saxon phrases at the policemen. 8

Метонимическая Антономазия Пискля Гадя Fluffy 9

Ирония She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all. 10

Метафора Простая e.g. I passed a crocodile of choir boys, in starched collars and peculiar caps, on their way to Tom Gate. Осложненная e.g.in November a cold unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the colony, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. 11

Аллюзия e.g. I just want to get the hell out of this black hole of Calcutta. 12

Антономазия e.g. They could not touch him because he was Tarzan, Cain and the Flying Dutchman. 13

Аллегория Allegory is expressing abstract ideas through concrete pictures. e.g. Too many cooks spoil the broth. No rose without a thorn. After two centuries of crusades the Crescent defeated the Cross. 14

Олицетворение e.g. Autumn comes And trees are shedding their leaves, And Mother Nature blushes before disrobing. (N. W.) O stretch thy reign, fair Peace! Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand on our fevered head… 15