7/19/2023 0 Comments Stylistic fragment examples![]() (O'Hara) These examples represent the second type of grammatical metaphor formed by the transposition of the lexical and grammatical meanings. There were numerous Aunt Millies because of, and in spite of Arthur's and Edith's triple checking of the list. Proper names employed as plural lend the narration a unique generalizing effect: If you forget to invite somebody's Aunt Millie, I want to be able to say I had nothing to do with it. Emotions may signify concrete events, happenings, doings. (Green) Thus one feeling is represented as a number of emotional states, each with a certain connotation of a new meaning. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of death, and on this side flourished the injustices, the cruelties, the meannesses, that elsewhere people so cleverly hushed up. (Shelly) The plural form of an abstract noun, whose lexical meaning is alien to the notion of number makes it not only more expressive, but brings about what Vinogradov called aesthetic semantic growth. (Hemingway) The lone and level sands stretch far away. The clamour of waters, snows, winds, rains. ![]() (Swinburn) The contrary device-the use of plural instead of singular-as a rule makes the description more powerful and large-scale. The faint fresh flame of the young year flushes From leaf to flower and from flower to fruit And fruit and leaf are as gold and fire. The use of a singular noun instead of an appropriate plural form creates a generalized, elevated effect often bordering on symbolization. First of all these are the categories of number, person and case. Stylistic potential of the parts of speech 3.3.1 The noun and its stylistic potential The stylistic power of a noun is closely linked to the grammatical categories this part of speech possesses. ![]()
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