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Lexical Stylictic Devices - Coggle Diagram
Lexical Stylictic Devices
The interaction of different types of lexical meaning
1) ditionary and contextual
Metaphor
is the relationship is a relation between the dictionary and context- ual logical meanings based on the affinity or similarity of certain prop- erties or features of the two corresponding concepts
Stylistic function of a metaphor is
-to make the description concrete
-to express the individual attitude.
Types
:
1) Genuine
2) Trite or Dead
3) Sustained or Prolonged
Metonymy
is based on a different type of relation between the dictionary and contextual meanings, a relation based on some kind of association connecting the two concepts which these meanings represent on a proximity
Types:
1) Referental
2) Predicative
Functons
:
-It is more poetic way to give meaning and substance to words
Irony
is a stylistic device also based on the simultaneous realization of two logical meanings - dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings are in opposition to each other.
Types:
1) Verbal irony
2) Dramatic irony 3) Situation irony
Intensification of a feature
Hyperbole
is a stylistic device in which emphasis is achieved through deliberate exaggeration
Periphrasis
is a round - about way of speaking used to name some object or phenomenon.
Types of periphrasis:
1) Logical Periphrasis
2) Figurative Periphrasis
Simile
the intensification of some feature of the concept in question is realized in a device
b) primary and derivative
Pun
is another S.D. based on the interaction of two wellknown meanings of a word or a phrase.
Types of pun
:
1) Homophonic pun 2) Compound pun 3)Homographic pun 4) Visual pun 5) Recursive pun
Zeugma
is 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.
c) logical and emotive
Epithet
is based on the interplay of emotive and logical meaning in an attributive word, phrase or even sentence, used to characterize an object and pointing out to the reader some of the properties or features of the object with the aim of giving an individual perception and evaluation of these features or properties
Types of epithets
:
1) Single epithet
2) Chain and phrase epithet
3) Compound epithet
4) Reversed epithet
Function of epithets:
-to embellish the text and at the same time emphasize an innate or natural quality of the noun
Oxymoron
is a combination of two words in which meanings of the two clash, being opposite in sense
Function of oxymoron
-effect of creating an impression, enhancing a concept, and even entertaining the reader
d) logical and nominative
Antonomasia
It is the result of interaction between logical and nominal meaning of word.
Functions antonomasia
-To characterize the person simultaneously with naming him;
-To make a word which now has a basic nominal meaning acquire a genetic signification, thus supplying the word an additional logical meaning:
-To revive the logical meaning of the proper names, thus making more apparent the interplay of logical and nominal meanings;
-To give information to the reader about the bearer of the name:
-To point out the leading, most characteristic feature of a person or event, at the same time pinning this leading trait as a proper name to the person or event concerned.