EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND

STYLISTIC DEVICES
BRYGUNETS KATERYNA
SHCHOKINA VALERIA
GALCHUK NIKA
 TERMS

01 expressive means 05 tropes

02 stylistic means 06 figures of speech

03 stylistic markers 07 other names

04 stylistic devices
ALL STYLISTIC
DEVICES BELONG TO
EXPRESSIVE MEANS
BUT NOT ALL
EXPRESSIVE MEANS
ARE STYLISTIC
DEVICES
Morphological forms like diminutive suffixes may have an
expressive effect: girlie, piggy, doggy, etc.
 LEXICAL EXPRESSIVE
MEANS MAY BE
ILLUSTRATED BY A SPECIAL
GROUP OF INTENSIFIERS -
AWFULLY, TERRIBLY,
ABSOLUTELY, ETC.
THERE ARE ALSO
SPECIAL
GRAMMATICAL
FORMS AND
SYNTACTICAL
PATTERNS
ATTRIBUTING
EXPRESSIVENESS
 Stylistic devices

Prof. I. R. Galperin calls a stylistic device a

generative model when through frequent use a
language fact is transformed into a stylistic device.
The nature of the interaction may be affinity (likeness by
nature), proximity (nearness in place, time, order,
occurrence, relation) or contrast (opposition).
1. My new dress is as pink as this flower: comparison (ground for
comparison - the colour of the flower).
2. Her cheeks were as red as a tulip: simile (ground for simile -
colour/beauty/health/freshness)
3. She is a real flower: metaphor (ground for metaphor - frail/
fragrant/tender/beautiful/helpless...).
 W. Shakespeare's Sonnet 130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks...
 In spite of the belief that rhetoric is an outmoded
discipline it is in rhetoric that we find most of the terms
contemporary stylistics generally employs as its
metalanguage.
The first linguistic theory called sophistry appeared in the
fifth century B.C.
Antique tradition ascribes some of the fundamental
rhetorical notions to the Greek philosopher Gorgius (483-
375 В. C).
• the choice of words;

• word combinations;

• figures.
1. The choice of words included lexical expressive means such
as foreign words, archaisms, neologisms, poetic words, nonce
words and metaphor.

2. Word combinations involved 3 things:

a) order of words;
b) word-combinations;
c) rhythm and period (in rhetoric, a complete sentence).
 3. Figures of speech.
This part included only 3 devices used by the antique
authors always in the same order:
a) antithesis;
b) assonance of colons;
c) equality of colons.
Later contributions by other authors were made into the art of
speaking and writing so that the most complete and well
developed antique system, that came down to us is called
the Hellenistic Roman rhetoric system.
Thank you for your attention