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“Pride and Prejudice”
The wear and tear of city life
Alliteration
Assonance
Graphones

"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
pun

All present life is but an interjection
An ‘Oh’ or ‘Ah’ of joy or misery,
Or a ‘Ha! Ha!’ or ‘Bah!’ – a yawn or ‘Pooh!’
Of which perhaps the latter is most true.
(Byron)
Interjection
and exclamatory words
Mr. Facing–Both–Ways does not get very far in this world.
antonomasia
Dear Nature is the kindest Mother still.
(Byron)
metaphor
May’s mother always stood on her gentility; and Dot’s mother never stood on anything but her active little feet. (Dickens)
Zeugma and pun
“Robert Rowley rolled a round roll round”
alliteration

The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in and the sun and the moon were made to give them light. (Dickens)
Hyperbole
Treacherous as a snake
simile
In private I should call him a liar. In the Press you should use the words: ‘Reckless (опрометчивый) disregard (пренебрежение) for truth’.
euphemism
The fair sex
Periphrasis
(=women)

You know which side the law’s buttered
Decomposition of set phrases
Ecclesiastes said, ‘that all is vanity’.
Quotations
Crushing defeat
(сокрушительное поражение )
Clichés
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. (Keats)
Epigram

In the days of old men made manners
Manners now make men.
(Byron)
Chiasmus
A tone of most extravagant comparison Miss Tox said it in.
Inversion
They looked at hundred of houses, they climbed thousands of stairs, they inspected innumerable kitchens.
climax
She was lovely: all of her – delightful.
Detached (constructions
Youth is lovely, age is lonely; Youth is fiery, age is frost.
Antithesis

For glances beget (порождать) ogles (влюбленный взгляд), ogles sighs, sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter. (Byron)
Repetition
Know ye the land where the cypress (кипарис) and myrtle (мирт)…
Know ye the land of the cedar and wine …
………………………………………………………………………
‘Tis the clime of the East – ‘tis the land of the Sun.
(Byron)
Suspense
The principle production of these towns … appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dock-yard men.
Enumeration

It was an afternoon to dream. And she took out Jon’s letters.
Gap-sentence link
The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect.
Polysyndeton
‘There’s no use in talking to him, he’s perfectly idiotic!’ said Alice.
Asyndeton
Over and over he was asking himself: would she receive him?
Represented speech

Good intention but - ; You just come home or I’ll …
break-in-the-narrative
Nothing so difficult as a beginning
Ellipsis
Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise?
Questions in the narrative
He was no gentle lamb
Litotes
How long must we suffer? Where is the end?
Rhetorical questions

graphones
italics
capitalization
Repetition of letters
onomatopoeia
I AM sorry
Appeeee Nooooyeeeeer
Cock-a-doodle-doo
I knew these Eye-talians!
We were аll delighted, we аll realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our оnе and nоbе function of the time, move.

And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
Paronomasia
Three fishes went sailing out into the West
Out into the West, as the sun went down.
Anadiplosis

What steps would you take if an empty tank were coming toward you? – Long ones.
pun
For East is East, and West is West …
tautology
The woman who could face the very devil himself of a mouse – goes all to pieces in front of a flash lightning.
Anti-climax
You undercut, sinful, insidious hog.
Clarifying synonyms

“Bamby” ву Felix Salten