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Phonographic Means of
Stylistics.
Stylistic morphology.
The notion of EM and SD on
the phonetic level.
In the opinion of the famous linguist
I.Galperin,
PhoneticSDs
- assonance, alliteration,onomatopoeia,
euphony, cacophony
The system of English
versification and instrumentation
versification
instrumentation.
Rhyme and Rhythm. English
metrical patterns. The system
of English versification.
(might, right).
When there is identity of the stressed syllable, including the initial
consonant of the second syllable (in polysyllabic words), we have
exact or identical rhymes.
A Fool might once himself alone expose,
Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose.
Incomplete rhymes :
Eye-rhyme or half-rhyme
(love - prove, flood - brood, have – grave).
According to the way the rhymes are
arranged within the stanza, certain
models have been defined:
couplets - aa.
(I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree." - Joyce Kilmer)
triple rhymes - aaa.
(sanity, vanity )
cross rhymes - abab.
framing or ring rhymes - abba.
Rhythm is the pattern of sounds perceived
as the recurrence of equivalent “beats” at
more or less equal intervals.
Trochee [ troʊki ]
Dactyl
Anapest
Amphybrach
iambic foot
That time | of year | thou mayst | in me | behold
trochaic foot
Tell me | not in | mournful | numbers
anapestic foot
And the sound | of a voice | that is still
dactylic foot
This is the | forest pri | meval, the | murmuring
| pine and the | hemlocks
Types of instrumentation
(sound-instrumenting)
1) Alliteration
Direct onomatopoeia
e.g. cuckoo, buzz, roar, mew.
Indirect onomatopoeia
e.g. And the silken, sad, uncertain
rustling of each purple curtain (E.
Poe). - the repetition of the sound [s]
produces the association of the
rustling of the curtain.
4) Euphony [
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet
breathing.”
--Endymion, by John Keats
5) Cacophony
Multiplication of letters
-e.g. Well, Alice has a dog, the absu-u-
urdest creature.
Hyphanation
-e.g. And the ship’s the L-e-m-m-a-l-a,
Lemmala. Can you remember that?
The graphon
is an associative stylistic device of the phono-
graphical level which is realized through the
distortion of spelling norms
Contact graphons
The banner
The overline
The headline
The underhead is of 3 kinds:
The bank (a secondary headline);
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"For quite three years George was under the influence
of his passion for Priscilla, never really forgot her,
always in a dim, dumb, subconscious way felt the
frustration…" (R. Aldington)
7)Transposition of the Graphic
Model of the Text
The means of arrangement of an official text
can be used in fiction for the humorous effect:
e.g.
PLAN TO CAPTURE BABY ROO
General remarks. Kanga runs faster than any of US, even
Me.
More general remarks. Kanga never takes her eye off baby
Roo, except when he's safely buttoned up in her pocket.
Therefore. If we are to capture Baby Roo, we must get a
Long Start, because Kanga runs faster than any of Us, even
Me. (See 1)… ("Winnie the Pooh" by A. Milne)