Speak on syntactical stylistic devices. Enumerate them

Stylistic approach to linguistic facts on the syntactical level is concerned with expressive possibilities of the structural pattern of sentences and paragraphs, the arrangement of words in a sentence and sentences in a paragraph. Syntactical SD is based on the deliberate deviation from accepted norm. But as the concept of norm in English syntax is rather loose, stylistic, syntactical pattern, can be regarded as variant of standard model and there are limits beyond which they can’t extend.

Syntactical SDs deal with the syntactical arrangement of the utterance that results in the emphasis of the whole construction.

Syntactical stylistic devices based on the arrangement of words in the sentence:

a) Stylistic inversion

b) Detached construction

Syntactical SDs based on the absence of some logically connected members of the sentence:

a) Elliptical construction (ellipsis)

b) Apokoinu construction

c) Aposiopesis (break-in-the-narrative)

SYNTACTICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES BASED ON REPETITION ( Repetition is a recurrence of the same word, word combination or phrase for two or more times. Repetition of one word or a word combination two or more times in succession makes the statement emphatic and emotional, and creates a certain tension attracting the reader’s attention.)

a) Anaphora

b) Epiphora (back-ground repetition)

c) Framing

d) Anadiplosis (linking, reduplication or catch repetition)

e) Parallelism

f) Chiasmus

g) Synonymic repetition

h) Syntactical tautology

Syntactical SDs based on the arrangement of words in a sentence and sentences in a paragraph for special effect:

a) Chaotic enumeration

b) Climax (Gradation)

c) Suspense

d) Antithesis

Syntactical SDs based on the particular ways of linking between words, clauses or sentences:

a) Asyndeton

b) Polysyndeton

c) Attachment (gap-sentence, link)

Syntactical SDs based on transferred use of structural meaning:

a) Rhetorical question

b) Litotes