Inversion, detachment, parallel constructions, chiasmus.

Inversion – the placing of a sentence elem-s out of its normal position.

2 types: 1) complete (presupposes that predicate/ predicative is placed before the subject, e.g. Rood am I…); 2) partial (initial position is occupied by secondary members of a sentence).

Aims of inversion: - to attract special reader’s attention to the part of the sentence shifted into the front position; - to emphasize the idea expressed in the sent-ce; - to give the description and emotional coloring and intensify the main character’s feelings; - to create rhythm.

Detachment – a secondary member of a s-ce (an attribute or adv modifier) is placed away from the word it refers to and gains some kind of syntactical independence and a great degree of significance.

Parenthesis – is the variant of detachment. It-s an explanatory remark put at the body of a statement and frequently separated by brackets. It’s used to reproduce two parallel thoughts to more the s-ce more noticeable, emphatic, to avoid monotonous repetition of similar construction, to give colloquial char-r to the author’s narration.

Parallelism (parallel constr-s) – is cases of repetition of identical or similar syntactical structures.

2 types: 1) complete; 2) partial.

Usually they are supported by other devices: antithesis, climax, repetition, enumeration. It’s used in different styles, it’s always sense-motivated.

Aims: - to make the writing clear and balanced; - to emphasize this or that facts or part of a sentence; - to create a certain rhythmical arrangement of speech; - to intensify similarities or differences between objects.

Chiasmus – it’s based on the repetition of syntactical patterns but it has a reversed order (inverted) in one of the two utterances. S+P+O, O+P+S. The aim: to break the monotony of parallel constructions and give emphasis to the second part.

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