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1 Syntactical stylistic devices
Irina Basalaeva

2 Inversion "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." (J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit, 1937). "What they talked of all evening long, no one remembered next day." (Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine, 1957). "The man who first saw that it was possible to found a European empire on the ruins of the Mogul monarchy was Dupleix." (Thomas Macaulay).

3 Detachment A solemn silence: Mr. Pickwick humorous, the old lady, the fat gentleman cautious and Mr. Miller timorous. (D.) I have to beg you for money. (Daily) Of all my old association, of all my old pursuits and hopes of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me. (D.)

4 Parallel constructions
“Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.” “How hard good women are! How weak bad men are!” “Oh! Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one.” (Galperina I.R.)

5 Chiasmus “Nice to see you, to see you, nice!” (catchphrase of British TV entertainer Bruce Forsyth). “I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s was to comfort the disturbed the comfortable.”( David Foster Wallace). “I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me.”(Ovid)

6 Repetition Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope
(T.Eliot “Ash-Wednesday”) I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. ( “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”)

7 Enumeration Today many workers find their labor mechanical, boring, imprisoning, stultifying, dreary and heartbreaking. “Bad women as they are turned, may have in them sorrow, repentance, pity, sacrifice.” ( Galperina I.R.) “She has got a capital appetite, goes long walks, and pays no attention at all to her lessons.” (Galperina I.R.)

8 Suspense Have been accused of bad taste. This has disturbed me, not so much for my own sake of criticism in general. Every racing car, every racer, every mechanic, every ice – cream van was also plastered with advertising.

9 Apocoinu construction
There's a man wants to see you. The Men Who Killed Me . People who share crowdshare swap shops.

10 In ellipsis You feel all right? Anything wrong or what?
“Juan thought and thought…and then thought some more. I’m wondering…” Juan said, bemused. “The streets were deserted, the doors bolted.” ( N. Kazantzakis, Report to Greco)

11 Rhetorical question “Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?” ( H.L. Mencken) “ If practice makes perfect, and no one’s perfect, then why practice?” ( Billy Corgan) “Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do ‘practice’ ? ” (George Carlin)

12 Asyndeton He couldn’t go abroad alone, the sea upset his liver, he hated hotels. The audience rolled about in their chairs; they held their sides, they groaned in an agony of laughter. ‘Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honored, self-secure.”

13 Polysyndeton The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect (Ian Fleming) "Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war - not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government - not any other thing. We are the killers." (Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter, 1968) "I don't care a fig for his sense of justice - I don't care a fig for the wretchedness of London; and if I were young, and beautiful, and clever, and brilliant, and of a noble position, like you, I should care still less." (Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, 1886)

14 Thank you for your attention!


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