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This document provides examples and definitions of various lexical stylistic devices, including: - Anaphora, which is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. - Anadiplosis, which is when a word or phrase is repeated at the end of one clause and the beginning of the next. - Polyptoton, which is the use of words with the same root. - Epimone, which is the repetition used for emphasis in dialogue. - Antanaclasis, which involves a word with multiple meanings. It then provides examples of these devices and identifies them. Finally, it provides additional examples of devices like simile, metaphor

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This document provides examples and definitions of various lexical stylistic devices, including: - Anaphora, which is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. - Anadiplosis, which is when a word or phrase is repeated at the end of one clause and the beginning of the next. - Polyptoton, which is the use of words with the same root. - Epimone, which is the repetition used for emphasis in dialogue. - Antanaclasis, which involves a word with multiple meanings. It then provides examples of these devices and identifies them. Finally, it provides additional examples of devices like simile, metaphor

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Task 3

1 Anaphora is the repetition of a single word or phrase at the beginning of several


sentences or clauses in a row.
Babbit was virtuous.  He advocated, though he did not practice, the prohibition of
alcohol; he praised, though he did not obey, the laws against motor-speeding. 

2 anadiplosis is when a word or phrase is repeated in successive clauses. Usually,


the phrase shows up at the end of one clause and the beginning of the next:
“To think better of it”, returned the gallant Blandois, “would be to slight a lady, to
slight a lady would be to be deficient in chivalry towards the sex, and chivalry
towards the sex is a part of my character”.

3 Polyptoton is the use of two or more words that, though different, share the same
root:
Halfway along the right-hand side of the dark brown hall was a dark brown door
with a dark brown settie beside it. After I had put my hat, my gloves, my muffler
and my coat on the settie we three went through the dark brown door into darkness
without any brown in it.

4 anadiplosis is when a word or phrase is repeated in successive clauses. Usually,


the phrase shows up at the end of one clause and the beginning of the next:
 Failure meant poverty, poverty meant squalor, squalor led, in the final stages, to
the smells and  Failure meant poverty, poverty meant squalor, squalor led, in the
final stages, to the smells and stagnation of B. Inn Alley of B.Inn Alley

5 anaphora This device involves the repeated use of a word or phrase at the
beginning of each line in a poem, or each sentence in prose:
I might as well face facts: good-bye, Susan, good-bye a big car, good-bye a big
house, good-bye power, good-bye the silly handsome dreams.

6 Epimone, a device most often used in dialogue, occurs when the speaker repeats
themselves for the purpose of dwelling on a point:
 I wanted to knock over the table and hit him until my arm had no more strength in
it, then give him the boot, give him the boot, give him the boot — I drew a deep
breath.
 
7 antanaclasis – One word can have many different meanings, especially in the
English language:
Next time there won’t be a next time.

8 anadiplosis is when a word or phrase is repeated in successive clauses. Usually,


the phrase shows up at the end of one clause and the beginning of the next:
 And a great desire for peace, peace of no matter what kind, swept through her.
9 anaphora This device involves the repeated use of a word or phrase at the
beginning of each line in a poem, or each sentence in prose:
 I notice that father’s is a large hand, but never a heavy one when  it touches me,
and that father’s is a rough voice but never an angry one when it speaks to me.

10 anaphora This device involves the repeated use of a word or phrase at the
beginning of each line in a poem, or each sentence in prose:
. There lives at least one being who can never change — one being who would be
content to devote his whole existence to your happiness — who lives but in your
eyes — who breathes but in your smile — who bears the heavy burden of life itself
only for you.

11  Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless waited  their turn to be milked.   


Repetition with the same ands of words.

12 anadiplosis is when a word or phrase Is repeated in successive clauses. Usually,


the phrase shows up at the end of one clause and the beginning of the next:
 Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing.
Sharing is the art of living. 

13 The precious twins – untried, unnoticed, undirected – and I say it quiet with my
hands down - undiscovered.
Repetition with the same prefixes.

Task I.
Identify the lexical stylistic devices and their types, comment on their stylistic
functions.
1. It was an occasion for rejoicing, perhaps, but rather for a solemn, thankful, eyes-
raised-to-heaven kind of rejoicing” (Wodehouse)
• Figures of Identity; Synonymic repetition; Synonyms of precision; the greatest
role in the analysis of any kind of literary text.
• Figures of Inequality; Climax; emotional and emphatic; word order is used to
build excitement or anticipation

2. “Lovers speak of living deaths, dear wounds, fair storms, and freezing fires.”
(Sir Ph.Sidney)
• Figures of Contrast; Oxymoron; a means of getting the reader's attention through
the pairing of opposing or contradictory words.

3. She had a kind heart, a gold tooth and a bank account.


• Figures of Inequality; Anti-climax; to convey a disappointing situation.

4. I woke early to see the kiss of the sunrise summoning a flush to the cliffs.
• Figures of Inequality; Climax; logical; word order is used to build excitement or
anticipation.
5. There is Mr. Guppy, who was at first as open as the sun at noon, but who
suddenly shut up as close as midnight. (Ch. Dickens)

• Figures of Identity; Simile; trite (dead) similes; a stylistic device based on


comparison of two objects or notions belonging to different spheres of life.
• Figures of Contrast; Antithesis; a stylistic device presenting two contrasting ideas
in a close neighbourhood.
6. Of course it‘s important. Incredibly, urgently, desperately important.
• Figures of Inequality; Climax; emotional and emphatic; word order is used to
build excitement or anticipation.

7. In moments of utter crises my nerves act in the most extraordinary way. When
utter disaster seems imminent my whole being is simultaneously braced to avoid it.
I size up the situation in a flash, set my teeth, contract my muscles, take a firm grip
of myself, and without a tremor always do the wrong thing.
• Figures of Inequality; Climax; emotional and emphatic; word order is used to
build excitement or anticipation.

8. An enormous grand piano grinned savagely at the curtains as if it would grab


them, given the chance. (W. Golding)
• Figures of Contrast; Antithesis; a stylistic device presenting two contrasting ideas
in a close neighbourhood.

9. These jingling toys in his pocket were of eternal importance like baseball or
Republican Party. (S. Lewis)
• Figures of Identity; Simile; genuine similes; a stylistic device based on
comparison of two objects or notions belonging to different spheres of life.

10. You look as if your name was Earnest. You are the most earnest looking person
I ever saw. (O.W., The Importance of Being Earnest
• Figures of inequality; Pun

11. If I am occasionally a little over-dressed I make up for it by being always


immensely over-educated. (O.W.)

• Figures of Contrast; Antithesis; a stylistic device presenting two contrasting ideas


in a close neighbourhood.

12. Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice


is no virtue.
• Figures of Inequality; Climax; logical; word order is used to build excitement or
anticipation.

13. .... tall chimneys, out of which serpents of smoke trailed themselves and never
got uncoiled.
• Figures of Inequality; Anti-climax; to convey a disappointing situation.

14. One equal temper of heroic hearts,


Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. (A.L.T.)
• SSD based on extension of the sentence model; Enumeration; a rhetorical device
that occurs when a writer chooses to list out items, events, ideas, or other parts of a
story/setting.

15. The garage was full of nothing. (R. Chandler)


• Figures of Contrast; Oxymoron; a means of getting the reader's attention through
the pairing of opposing or contradictory words.

16. His arm about her, he led her in and bawled, 'Ladies and worser halves, the
bride!' (S. Lewis)
• Figures of inequality; Pun.

17.Mother Nature always blushes before disrobing.

Task 2
1. “But, John, you know I’m not going to a doctor, I’ve told you.” “You are going
or else…” - aposiopesis

2. For old struggle – mere stagnation. In place of danger – monotony. ¬¬-


antithesis
3. We’re nice people and there isn’t going to be room for nice people any more. It’s
ended, it’s all over, it’s dead. ¬- climax
4. It was the season of light, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
¬ antithesis
5. Take care of your money, and your money will take care of you.
6. Outwardly, Teresa seemed fine. Inside, she was sunk in an abyss of deep,
desperate loneliness. Even when she was surrounded by people, she sat in a lonely
chair in a lonely room, in a lonely house, in a lonely world – repetition
7. Today I broke off my engagement with Earnest … the weather still continues
charming. - simile
8. It is in outrage to bind a Roman citizen; it is a crime to scourge him; it is almost
parricide to kill him, but to crucify him …? - aposiopesis
9. “You’re no gentleman, you’re not, to talk of such things. I’m a good girl, I am;
and I know what the like of you are, I do”.
10. He was the man killed the deer. – apokoinu
11. She was crazy about you. In the beginning. - detachment
12. Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct all outrage, all your presence in my
garden utterly absurd.
13. From the offers of marriage that fell to her, Dona Clara, deliberately, chose the
one that required her removal to Spain. So to Spain she went. - chiasmus
14. “I just work here”, he said softly. “If I didn’t” — he let the rest hang in the air,
and kept on smiling. - represented speech
15. With these hurried words Mr. Bob Sawyer pushed the post boy on one side,
jerked his friend into the vehicle, slammed the door, put up the steps, wafered the
bill on the street-door, locked it, put the key into his pocket, jumped into the
dickey, gave the word for starting. – asyndeton
?16. The Widow Douglass, she took me for her son, and allowed she would civilize
me…
17. Bella soaped his face and rubbed his face, and soaped his hands and rubbed his
hands, and splashed him, and rinsed him, and towelled him, until he was as red as
beetroot. – polysyndeton
18. Here is a long passage — what an enormous perspective I make of it! —
leading from Peggoty’s kitchen to the front door. - parenthetic elements
19. Out came the chase — in went the horses — on sprang the boys — in got the
travellers.- detachment
20. How many pictures of new journeys over pleasant country, of resting places
under the free broad sky, of rambles in the fields and woods, and paths not often
trodden — how many tones of that one well-remembered voice, how many
glimpses of the form, the fluttering dress, the hair that waved so gaily in the wind
— how many visions of what had been and what he hoped was yet to be — rose up
before him in the old, dull, silent church! - detachment
?21. The explosion completely destroyed a church, two houses, and a flowerpot.
22. After we stretch – which hurts – there’s a couple of hours of strengthening
exercises – which hurt – and an eight kilometre run – which kills. – repetition

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