Доклад: Epithet

4. “In the days of old men made the manners ; Manners now make men ”

J. Byron

This is a famous epigram by Byron, the author, who favoured chiasmus.

5. “Surely they don’t want me for myself, for myself is the same old self they did not want.”

J.London

Climax (Gradation)

1. He was sick, shattered, on the verge of a complete collapse .

A. J. Cronin

The author gives gradual increase in emotional evaluation of the condition of the character.

2. His startled sisters looked, and before the servant girl could get there, the bread plate wobbled, slid, flew to the floor, and broke into shivers.

K. Mansfield

3. “They looked at hundreds of houses; they climed thousands of stairs; they inspected innumerable kitchens.”

S.Maugham

Here the climax is achieved by simple numerical increase.

Alliteration

1. “So he sat and jawned, and gazed at the cr owd cr owding to the match at two o’clock, cr owding back in the gloom at four o’clock…”

A. Bennett

Alliteration is the repetition of similar consonants at the beginning of neighbouring words.

2. She wr inkled her br ows in a puzzled fr own.

J. Galsworthy

The articulation of “r” is used to reinforce the expression.

3. “Forget and forgive”, she cried passionately.

J.London

4. But he was angry now, his nervousness lost in a swelling in dignation at the ignorance, the in tolerant stupidity of Chenkin’s acc usation, and the acc lamation with which the others had received it.

A.J.Cronin

Assonance

1. He wrote and wrote , never looking at the clock , filling sheet after sheet , until his head reeled .

A. J. Cronin

[ u – u – u – – I: – I: – e – I:]

Assonance – deliberate repetition of like sounding vowels in neighbouring words with a view to heightening their effect.

2. When he opened his eyes again he started , seeing something creeping swiftly up a tree .

D.H. Lawrence

[ai – a: – I: – I:]

Rhetorical Question

1. Could a man own anything prettier than this dining-table with its deep tints, the starry, soft-petalled roses, the ruby-coloured glass, and quaint silver furnishing; could a man own anything prettier than a woman who sat at it?

J. Galsworthy

Rhetorical question is a question which requires no answer, and is used merely to emphasise a point.

2. “Please, my dear fellow - ” Llewellyn entreated – “who could help an accident like that? I beg of you – go up and console your wife.”

A. J. Cronin

3. She took the vase of roses and left the room. Soames remained seated. Was it for this that he had signed that contract? Was it for this that he was going to spend some ten thousand pounds?

J. Galsworthy