Inglise keele stilistika
Phonetic stylistic devices
Onomatopoeia (sound imitation, echo-writing)
Is a combination of sounds which suggests acoustic features of objects or actions. E.g buzz,
clang, bang, mew, roar, rattle, whisper, ding-dong, splash, rustle, flop, squeek, giggle, whistle.
These are traditional cases (registered in dictionaries). More original and hence expressive
instances comprise nonce coinages:
The train choo-chooed to the station.
Rrrr-umph! A devastating crash..
A jet whooshed into the sky.
He tut-tutted his tongue.
Punk, punk, punk, her needle broke the taut circle...
Clop, -clop, -clop! Up the street came the delivery wagon.
Alliteration
The repetition of similar or identical consonants at the beginning of neighbouring words or
stressed syllables:
Most musical of mourners, weep again!
This device goes back to Anglo-Saxon poetry that knew no rhyme and did not yet rely on
metre. An example of this period:
In a somer seson, when soft was the sonne, I shope me in shroudes, as I shepe were.
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