Rhetorical question

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is a syntactical stylistic device the essence of which consisits in reshaping the grammatical meaning of the interrogative sentence. The question is no longer a question but a statement expressed in the form of an interrogative sentence.

E.g.: Is there not blood enough upon your penal code, that more must be poured forth to ascend to Heaven and testify against you? (BYRON)

29. simile- сравнение

A comparison in which two objects belonging to quite different classes are compared. E.g.:

Lady Henry, looking like a bird of paradise that had been out all night in the rain, flitted out of the room. (O. WILDE)

The formal elements of a simile are: 1) a pair of objects

2) a connective (like, as, as if, as though, such as, etc.) Not only conjunctions and adverbs but notional words (nouns, verbs, prepositional phrases) as well as affixes (suffixes - -wise, -like) and comma – the substitute of a conjunction – can have the function of a connective in a simile; e.g.: She seemed nothing more than a doll. (A.HUXLEY). “…with ape-like fury he was trampling his victim under foot”. (STEVENSON)

30. synecdoche(Gr. synekdoche) – синекдоха

A figure of speech, alike to metonymy, by which a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part, or an individual for a class, or an indeffinite number for a definite one, or singular for plural.

31. zeugma (Gr. 'yoke') – зевгма

Use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context, one metaphorical and the other literal in sense.

E.g.: ''And the boys took their places and their books.'' (DICKENS)

''Medora took heart, a cheap hall bedroom, and two art lessons a week from professor Angelini.'' (O. HENRY)

''The one martyr who might, perhaps, have paid him a visit and a fee did not show herself.'' (A. BENNET)