Interjections and exclamatory words

Semantically interjections are divided in:

Ø primary

Ø derivative ”God!”,” My Lord”

Stylistically interjections are divided in:

Ø bookish Listen!

Ø neutral Oh! Well!

Ø colloquial Cool! Wow! Awesome!

Ø vulgar colloquial Черт! Блин!

“Heaven”, “goodgracious!”, “dear me!”, “Come on!”, ”Look here!”, “dear”, “by the Lord!”, “God knows!”, “Bless me!”, “Humbug!”, 'Ha! ha!''Ah'! 'Heavens!', 'good gracious!', 'dear me!', 'God!'

Epithet

Semantically we distinguish:

Ø Fixed (logical/usual) epithets sweet smile, my true love; a sweet heart; the green wood; a dark forest; brave cavaliers; merry old England.

Ø Affective (emotive/occasional) epithet gorgeous, nasty, magnificent

Ø Figurative (transferred/metaphoric) epithets the smiling sun

Structurally we distinguish:

Ø Simple epithet: true love

Ø Compound epithet: heart-burning sigh

Ø Phrase/sentence epithets a move-if-you-dare expression (“a move-if-you-dare” expression); She looked at me with that please-don’t-touch-me look of hers. ( She looked at me with that “ please don’t touch me” look of hers.

Ø Reversed (inverted) epithet - this devil of a woman

Ø Chain of epithets - her large blue crying crasy eyes

О dreamy, gloomy, friendlytrees! (Trench)

a man of iron, a silvery laugh; a thrilling story/film; Alexander the Great; a cutting smile (насмешливая, едкая), to smile cuttingly. Just a ghost of asmile appeared on his face; she is a doll of a baby;a little man with a Say-nothing-to-me, or — I'll- contradict- youexpression on his face.

oxymoron

To live a life half-dead, a living death (Milton)

Thou art to me a delicious torment (Emerson).

a living corpse; sweet sorrow; a nice rascal; awfully (terribly) nice; a deafening silence; a low skyscraper.

I'm changed and the Mere touch of Sibyl Vane's hand makes me forget you and all your wrong fascinating, poisonous, delightful theories.

Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are privilege of the rich. (O.Wilde)

Beautiful tyrant. Fiend angelical

Dove-feathered raven. Wolfish-ravening lamb.

Despised substance of divines show.

Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st

A damned saint, an honourable villian. (Shakespeare)

I have but one simile, and that's a blunder

For wordless woman, which is silent thunder. (Byron)

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 1317