Tasks: Comment on the following examples

1. We made this photo two marriages ago (John Galsworthy).

2. В любом Уэбстере, выпущенном с 1755 года, дано произношение и этимология слова (Полный энциклопедический словарь. М., 1999).

3. He had taken three weeks off and a ticket to Mentone (John Galsworthy).

4. A ‘she will’ or ‘she won’t’ sort of a little person (Bennet).

5. … as we drew away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic (F.S. Fitzgerald).

6. … and drive off toward the bruised sunset (F.S. Fitzgerald).

7. – I am eating my heart out. It’s evidently a diet that agrees with you. You are growing fat on it

(W. S. Maugham).

8. In the parlous he was unctuously received by the pastor and a committee of three, wearing morning clothes and a manner of Christian intellectuality (S. Lewis).

9. Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail (O. Henry).

10. They were simply indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see ghosts or caterpillars (O. Henry).

11. I have but one simile, and that’s a blunder,

For wordless woman, which is silent thunder (Byron).

12. Sometimes his ears moved when the stream awoke and whispered (London).

13. The world stood still. The traffic stopped, the plants ceased growing, men were paralyzed, the winds dropped, the tides disappeared, the sun halted in the sky (R. Gordon)

14. Soldier faces the powder, girls powder the faces.

Literature

1. Galperin I.R. Stylistics. М., 1971. С. 145 – 156.

2. Skrebnev Y.M. Fundamentals of English Stylistics. М., 1994. Р. 152 – 156.

3. Скребнев Ю.М. Очерк теории стилистики. Горький, 1975. С. 145 – 156.

4. Арнольд И.В. Стилистика современного английского языка. С. 123 – 129.

5. Ivashkin M.P., Sdobnikov V.B., Seliaev A.V. A Manual of English Stylistics. Практикум по стилистике английского языка. Н.Новгород: НГЛУ им. Н.А. Добролюбова, 2002. Р. 14 – 20.

Additional Literature

1. Чалова Л.В. Семантическая классификация эпитетов // Лингвистика и межкультурная коммуникация: Сборник научных статей. Выпуск 2. Архангельск: ПГУ, 2006. С. 53 – 65.

2. Миньяр-Белоручева А.П. Англо-русские обороты научной речи: Практикум / А.П. Миньяр-Белоручева М.: Проспект-АП, 2004.

Practical Training № 7. Stylistic Syntax

Plan

Questions

1. What makes a sentence stylistically significant?

2. What is the most general classification of expressive syntactic means?

3. What expressive syntactical means are based on absence of structural elements?

4. What expressive syntactical means are based on excess of structural elements?

4. With what purpose is it used in the author’s discourse (description, narration)?

5. What is the difference between aposiopesis and a mere emotional unfinished sentence?

6. What is a nominative sentence? What is the stylistic function of it?

7. What is asyndeton? What stylistic effect can it create?

8. What is polysyndeton? How could we account for the solemn effect, which it sometimes creates?

9. What varieties of segmented sentences can be treated as syntactic tautology?

10. What is the difference between grammatical and stylistic inversion?

11. What is the stylistic purpose of the parallel constructions?