Стилистика

The notion of expressive means.

Reported speech as a stylistic device.

The notion of the functional style. The problem of belles-lettres and colloquial styles.

Repetition through the text and metonymical repetition as SD.

Lexical stylistic devices based on peculiar use of phraseology.

The notion of the norm and the literary language.

Graphical means in the printed text in fiction.

Archaisms and historical words and their stylistic functions.

Ellipsis as a SD.

Different points of view on the nature of SD.

Metonymical stylistic devices.

Direct and indirect speech as literary devices of rendering human speech.

Metaphor as a SD.

The notion of the functional style (the newspaper style, the scientific style).

Questions in the narrative as a SD.

Stylistic differentiation of the vocabulary.

Hyperbole and understatement as stylistic devices.

Ways of expressive means and stylistic devices.

Phonetic expressive means and stylistic devices.

The written language, its lexical and syntactical properties.

Inversion as a SD, types of inversion.

Special bookish vocabulary; terms, poetic diction.

Antomascra and synecdoche as a SD.

Special bookish vocabulary: neologisms, archaic words.

Oxymoron and zeugma as a SD.

Special bookish vocabulary: barbarisms, foreign words.

Climax and anticlimax as stylistic devices.

Non-literary vocabulary: slang and professional words.

Types of repetition.

The semantic structure of words and types of connotations.

Periphrasis and euphemism as SD.

Lexical stylistic devices based on interaction of 2 meanings of a word.

Rhetorical questions and litotes as SD.

Lexical stylistic devices based on intensification of a certain feature of an object.

Inversion and detachment as SD.

Syntactical stylistic devices based on the structural transformation of the sentence.

Pun and semantically false chain as SD.

Syntactical stylistic devices based on a specific arrangement of the units of the utterance.

Irony as a SD.

The theory of grammatical gradation; grammatical metaphor and types of grammatical transposition.

The noun and its stylistic potential.

The article and its stylistic potential. The stylistic power of a pronoun.

Convergence.

The adjective and its stylistic function. The verb and its stylistic properties.

Affixation and its expressiveness.