Lexical Stylistics

VERBAL IMAGES:

• Inform us of a certain phenomenon;

• express our attitude towards a certain phenomenon

• help to cognize the world analytically, by taking things apart

Verbal images can be created by :

• lexical SDs

• lexical SDs & Phonetic SDs

• lexical, morphological, syntactical SDs;

• phonetic, lexical, morphological, syntactical SDs

Identify stylistic device used in the following sentence:

At ten minutes before eleven in the morning the sky exploded into a carnival of white confetti instantly blanketing the city.

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Irony

• Pun

Identify stylistic device used in the following sentence:

Mr. Smeeth was sitting on the same side as the glass eye ...

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Irony

• Pun

Identify stylistic device used in the following sentence:

You held your breath and the door for me.

• Metaphor

  /ˈmetəfə(r)/

• Metonymy

• Zeugma

  /ˈzjuːɡmə/

• Pun

Identify stylistic device used in the following sentence:

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

• Metaphor

  /ˈmetəfə(r)/

• Metonymy

• Zeugma

  /ˈzjuːɡmə/

• Synecdoche

  /sɪˈnekdəki/

Analyze the example in terms of image-bearing lg units & specify the structure of the image created:    My heart is a ghost town.      

• heart (metaphor): Turner (a ghost town)- Vehicle (heart) - Ground (both are lonely & deserted) - Relation (similarity)

• a ghost town (metonymy): Turner (heart)- Vehicle (a ghost town)- Ground (one is in the other)- Relation (proxemity)

• a ghost town (metaphor): Turner (heart) - Vehicle (a ghost town) - Ground (both are lonely & deserted) - Relation (identification)

Identify stylistic device used in the following example:

• Metaphor

  /ˈmetəfə(r)/

• Pun

• Zeugma

  /ˈzjuːɡmə/

• Synecdoche

  /sɪˈnekdəki/

Identify stylistic device used in the following example:

• Irony

• Pun

• Zeugma

  /ˈzjuːɡmə/

• Synecdoche

  /sɪˈnekdəki/

Identify stylistic device used in the following example:

• Irony

• Pun

• Zeugma

  /ˈzjuːɡmə/

• Synecdoche

  /sɪˈnekdəki/