Stylistic Devices
“Never will I forget that day.”
What stylistic device is used?
Inversion
Intonation, stress, pauses and rhythm belong to which type of expressive means?
Phonetic
The translator keeps the same stylistic device because a natural equivalent exists.
Preservation
What can repetition create?
Emphasis, rhythm, intensity, emotion, etc.
“The news shattered her hopes.”
What device is used?
Metaphor
“Mondayish” is an example of which type?
Word-building
A metaphor is replaced by another linguistic device that creates a similar effect.
Substitution
A rhetorical question can express more than simply asking for information. Name two possible functions.
Persuasion, anger, irony, doubt, emotion.
“No more waiting. No more excuses. No more silence.”
What device is mainly used?
Repetition / anaphora
“Angry → furious → absolutely livid” demonstrates what?
Increasing lexical/emotional intensity
A stylistic effect cannot be reproduced in the same place, so the translator recreates it somewhere else.
Compensation
“His future was dark.”
Is “dark” literal or figurative? What does it suggest?
Figurative; uncertainty, hopelessness or misfortune.
Which device creates humour by using two meanings of a word?
Pun
“John did go away.”
What is emphasized?
The fact that John really went away; emphatic structure
A culture-specific joke is changed so that target readers understand and react to it similarly.
Adaptation
Why should a translator preserve the function of a stylistic device rather than always its exact form?
Because English and Armenian may use different linguistic forms to create the same effect.