Comparative stylistics

Zeugmais the use of a word in the same grammatical but different semantic relations to two adjacent words in the context, the semantic relations being on the one hand literal, and on the other, transferred. “Either you or your head must be off

Pun (paronomasia, a play on words) is a figure of speech emerging as an effect created by words similar or identical in their sound form and contrastive or incompatible in meaning.

3. Onomatopoeia is a combination of speech sounds which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature.

by things (machines or tools, etc.)

by people (sighing, laughter, patter of feet, etc.)

by animals. Buzz, mew

Alliteration is the repitition of similar sounds (usually consonants) at the beginning of successive words (следующих друг за другом). E.g., Sense and sensibility; Pride and Prejudice. It aims at imparting a melodic effect to the utterance

Rhyme is the repetition of identical or similar terminal sound combination of words. Rhyming words are generally placed at a regular distance from each other. flood-blood

The full rhyme presupposes identity of the vowel sound and the following consonant sounds.e.g. might – right

Incomplete rhymes present a greater variety. They can be divided into two main groups: vowel rhymes and consonant rhymes.

In vowel rhymes the vowels of the syllables in corresponding words are identical, but the consonants may be different.e.g. flesh – fresh –press

Consonant rhymes, on the contrary, show concordance in consonants.e.g. worth – forth

Rhythm is the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables, more or less regular. Rhythm can also be found in prose; it is based on the repetition of similar structural units, following one another.
Tyger, Tyger, burning bright,

In the forest of the night.

4. Stylistics is that branch of linguistics, which studies the principles, and effect of choice and usage of different language elements in rendering thought and emotion under different conditions of communication.

Types of stylistic research:

1.literary stylistics; 2. linguistic st.; 3. Comparative st.; 4. Decoding st.; 5. Functional st.; 6. Stylistic lexicology; 7. Stylistic grammar.

Literary and linguistic stylistics. Consequently they have certain areas of сross-rеfеrеnсе. Both study the common ground of:

1. the literary language from the point of view of its variability;

2. the idiolect (individual speech) of а writer;

3. poetic speech that has its own specific laws.

Comparative stylistics

Comparative stуlistics is connected with the contrastive study of more than one language. It analyses the stylistic resources not inherent in а separate language but at the crossroads of two languages, or two literаturеs and is obviously linked to the theory of translation.