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types and function of lexico-syntactical stylistic devices: simile, euphemism. plan 1. types and function of lexico-syntactical stylistic devices. 2. function of simile. 3. function of euphemism.’ activity 1. answer the questions. 1) what is simile? 2) what is the difference between simile and metaphor? 3) what is euphemism? 4) how do euphemisms depend on social, political and economic changes taking place in our society? 5) what groups of euphemisms do we distinguish? 6) what is the function of political euphemisms? activity 2. learn functions of simile and euphemism. simile reveals the most essential features of an object (or person) and draws a comparison between two different things. such formal elements as: like, as, such as, as if, seem etc. introduce similes and comparison. we must not confuse ordinary comparison and simile as an sd. comparison implies estimation of two objects which belong to one class of objects. its purpose is …

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unatic asylum, mental hospital; idiots, feeble-minded, low-medium, high-grade, mental defectives, and patients of severally subnormal personality; insane; persons of unsound mind, mentally ill patients. we distinguish the following groups of euphemisms: religious, moral, medical, political etc. activity 3. classify the following into traditional and original similes. 1) the grin made his large teeth resemble a dazzling miniature piano keyboard in the green light. (j.jones) 2) i left her laughing. the sound was like a hen having hiccups. (r.chandler) 3) she was obstinate as a mule, always had been, from a child. (j.galsworthy) 4) “funny how ideas come,” he said afterwards, “like a flash of lightening.” (s.maugham) 5) she has always been as live as a bird. (r.chandler) 6) you could have knocked me down with a feather when he said all those things to me. i felt just like balaam when his ass broke into light conversation. (s.maugham) 7) he …

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elopment arrested by his adenoidal condition (j. s.). 3. millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry (transfer of population or rectification of frontiers). 4. defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants are driven into the countryside, and the huts set on fire. (pacification). recommended literature: 1. boboxonova l. t. ingliz tili stilistikasi. тoshkent, o’qituvchi, 1995. 2. арнольд и.в. стилистика современного английского языка. - м.: флинта, 2002. 3. galperin i.r. stylistics / i.r. galperin. m.: высшая школа, 1981. 4. znamenskaya t.a. stylistics of the english language, fundamentals of the course, изд.3, исправленное. м.: едиториал урсс, 2005. 5. kukharenko v. a. seminars in style. м.: высшая школа, 1971. 6. skrebnev y. m. fundamentals of english stylistics. m.: astrel, 2000. 7. verdonk peter. stylistics. oxford university press, 2003. seminar 8. types and functions of lexico-syntactical stylistic devices: …

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. 3. byrne was not unpleasant. simply, he was what layth had come to egypt to avoid. after all, with english people he left, he was bound to feel a certain ambiguity. 4. julia was not dissatisfied with herself. 5. he had mitigated the tyranny; but he had also been to a large extent its instrument and had not infrequently enjoyed its fruits. 6. perhaps evvy was right after all. her eyes were dark brown and fugitive, her nose rather broad and tilted. 7. rain selected a noble shiraz of a more intense golden shade, not unlike the colour in which she proposed to paint the old man's face, and wherein the curve occurred, formalized into a recurrent flower. activity 4. find the example of litotes in the sentences. 1) she writes rather too often. 2) king arthur was no coward. 3) i have told you fifty times! 4) they …

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f. (j.) 12. kirsten said not without dignity: “too much talking is unwise.” (ch.) 13. joe clegg also looked surprised and possibly not too pleased. (ch.) 14. he was not over-pleased to find wimsey palpitating on his doorstep. (d. s.) 15. he was not too awful. (e. w.) 16. “it’s not too bad,” jack said, vaguely defending the last ten years. (i.s) activity 6. analyze the use of periphrases in the following contexts. comment on the stylistic effect of the use of periphrases as compared to that of stylistically neutral lexical units. 1. “did you ever see anything in mr. pickwick’s manner and conduct towards the opposite sex to induce you to believe...” (d.) 1. within the next quarter-hour a stag-party had taken over the apartment, several of them in uniform. i counted two naval officers and an air force colonel: but they were outnumbered by graying arrivals beyond draft …

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types and function of lexico-syntactical stylistic devices: simile, euphemism. plan 1. types and function of lexico-syntactical stylistic devices. 2. function of simile. 3. function of euphemism.’ activity 1. answer the questions. 1) what is simile? 2) what is the difference between simile and metaphor? 3) what is euphemism? 4) how do euphemisms depend on social, political and economic changes taking place in our society? 5) what groups of euphemisms do we distinguish? 6) what is the function of political euphemisms? activity 2. learn functions of simile and euphemism. simile reveals the most essential features of an object (or person) and draws a comparison between two different things. such formal elements as: like, as, such as, as if, seem etc. introduce …

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