Stylistic devices 777

It is a stylistic device also based on simultaneous reali­sation of two meanings: dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other.

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Metonymy

It is a stylistic device based on interaction of emotive and logical meanings in an attributive word, phrase or sentence.

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Irony

• Epithet

State the type of epithet: do-it-yourself, go-it-alone attitude

• phrase epithet

• reversed epithet

• sentence epithet

• personificated epithet

It is a combination of two words in which meanings of the two clash, being opposite in sense.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Irony

Define the structural models of Oxymoron: a living corpse,

a beautiful tyrant

• N-of-N   

• V + Adv

• Adv + Adj

• Adj+N

It is stylistic device which is also based on the interaction of logical and emotive meaning and gives a deliberate exaggeration.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Metonymy

• Irony

It is a SD based on interaction of logical and nominal meanings of the word.

• Antonomasia

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Epithet

State the type of SD: I suspect that the Noes and Don't Knows would far outnumber the Yesses.

• Irony

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

• Antonomasia

It is the use of a word in the same grammatical but different semantic relations to the words in the context.

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Pun

• Zeugma

State the type of SD: Clara was not a narrow woman either in mind or body.

• Pun

• Zeugma

• Irony

• Metonymy