Lexico-syntactical stylistic devices

Syntactical stylistic devices.

Inversion	Occasionally, students protested at the unrelenting stress, and a few dropped out…(M.W.). Upcamethefile and downsattheeditor, with Mr. Pickwick at his side (D.).
Rhetorical question	Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? (Gr. Gr.)
Ellipsis	One step forward, one step back (J.C.).
Repetition
Ordinary repetition	There were big palms and the green benches in the public garden. …Artists liked the way the palms grew… (E. H.).
Anaphora a….a….a	… Her favourite flowers filled the room. Her clothes were in the wardrobes in her room. Her brushes were on the table (D. du M.).
Epiphora …a. …a. …a.	It was made of bronze and glistened intherain. …The sea broke in a long line intherain (E. H.).
Framing a,,,,a	Heranawayfromthebattle. He was an ordinary human being that didn’t want to kill or be killed, so heranawayfromthebattle (St. H.).
Anadiplosis/ catch repetition …a. a …	Hopeless minutes turned into hours, hours into days… (J.A.).
Chain repetition	Failure meant poverty, poverty meant squalor, squalor led, in the final stages, to the smells and stagnation (D.du M.). At first he looked shocked. Then, as realization hit him, he began to smile, the smile grew into grin, the grin worked its way into laughter (C.A.).
Parallelism	“ If you are sorrowful, let me know why, and be sorrowful too; if you waste away and you are paler and weaker every day, let me be your nurse and try to comfort you. If you are poor, let us be poor together; but let me be with you” (D.).
Chiasmus	There are somanysons who won’t have anything to do with their fathers, and somanyfathers who won’t speak to their sons (O. W.).
Polysyndeton	And the coach, and the coachman, and the horses, and rattled, and jangled, and whipped, and cursed, and swore, and tumbled on together, till they came to Golden Square (D.).
Asyndeton	Through his brain, slowly sifted the things they had done together. Walking together. Dancing together. Sitting silent together. Watching people together (P. A.).
Suspense	“… The day on which I take the happiest and best step of my life – the day on which I shall be a man more exulting and more enviable than any other man in the world – the day on which I give the Bleak House its little mistress – shall be next month, then,” said my guardian (D.).

Climax/ gradation	Suddenly there was a big cheer ….Then the cheering stopped, there was chattering, then it got quieter and then it was completely silent (C.A.). There are drinkers. There are drunkards. There are alcoholics. But these are only steps down the ladder. Right down at the bottom is the methsdrinker – and man can’t sink lower than that (W.D.).
Antithesis	In life there is always balance. Life and death,male and female, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, win and lose, love and hate, lost and found (C. A.). It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity. It was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, … (D.).
Litotes	But if I was puzzled and disconcerted, I was not unimpressed (W.S.M.). They were not criminals or outcasts (M.W.). Mr. Fussy doesn’t look too happy either,’ whispered Amber (J.C.).
Simile	Aunt’s Phoebe’s voice rang out like a bugle; a call to battle (N.B.). Remarks of this kind being as natural from his sister as breathing (N.B.).
Periphrasis	The hospital was crowded with thesurgicallyinterestingproductsofthe fighting in Africa (I. Sh.). Jean nodded without turning and slid between two vermillion-coloured buses so the two drivers simultaneously used the same qualitative word (G.).
Reported speech	She hadn’t wanted to marry him or anyone else, for that matter, unless it was someone like her father. But there was no one like her father. No one she had ever seen. So, oh, well, what’sthediff! You have to get married some time (E. F.). The tingling stopped. She plunged into guilt, feeling as cold and hard as the glass vase. She was a wife and mother; whatrightdidshehavetofreedom? Responsibilities pulled at her, and attachments. Whathadhappenedtothem? Whywasn’tshelonely, worried, anxioustogetbackwhereshebelonged? (J.M.)

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