Syntactical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices

Syntactical Stylistic Devices
Supra-phrasal units
and
paragraphs

Syntactical Stylistic Devices
2. Compositional patterns of syntactical arrangement
stylistic inversion
detached construction
parallel construction
chiasmus

Syntactical Stylistic Devices
repetition:
anaphora
epiphora
framing
anadiplosis (linking repetition,
reduplication)
chain repetition

Syntactical Stylistic Devices
tautology
pleonasm
suspense (retardation)
climax
anticlimax
antithesis

Syntactical Stylistic Devices
3. Particular ways of combining parts of the utterance
asyndeton
polysyndeton
the gap-sentence link

Syntactical Stylistic Devices
4. Peculiar use of colloquial constructions
ellipsis
break-in-the narrative (aposiopesis)
question-in-the narrative
represented speech
(uttered and unuttered)