Stylistics

The language of the text belongs to the emotive prose.

There are three types of word meaning that can be distinguished. From the given text such words as suspense, night, whiteness belong to the group of words of logical meaning. Words of emotive meaning are flying glamour, rough mossy surface, quivering, haunted, moon-witched trees, mysterious. And words of a nominal meaning are apple tree, earth in the text.

There are also some barbarisms in the text, for example glamour which is originally a French word, or scent. There is no special colloquial vocabulary in the text.

Onomatopoeia is a combination of speech sounds which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature, by things, by people and by animals. There are two varieties of onomatopoeia: direct and indirect. In the given text there is an example of direct onomatopoeia: unknown bird went “Pip – pip “, “Pip – pip”. Though there is no alliteration in the text.

Metaphor means transference of some quality from one object to another. There are examples of metaphor in the text, they are: busy chatter of a steam; the moon flinging glances; the blossom seemed to grow; glamour which had clothed the earth.

The epithets in the text are big apple tree, a peaty scent, earthly lovers, busy chatter, sleepy pigs, thick branches, mysterious white beauty. For example, thick branches or big apple tree is an associated epithet. But sleepy pigs, earthly lovers, busy chatter are the unassociated epithets.

“The blossom on a level with his eyes seemed to grow more living every moment, seemed with its mysterious white beauty more and more a part of his suspense” is simile.

Hyperbole is a deliberate overstatement or exaggeration of a feature essential to the objective or phenomenon. There is a couple of examples of hyperbole in the given text. The first one is “No mistaking that, even in the dark, nearly twice the height and size of any other, and leaning out towards the open meadows and the steam.” The other one is “All, was unearthly here, fit for no earthly lovers; fit only for god and goddess, faun and nymph.”

There is also a set phrase in the text, it is ‘No mistaking’.

There is a stylistic inversion in the text with the adverbial modifier placed at the beginning of the sentence, as in: “No mistaking that, even in the dark, nearly twice the height and size of any other, and leaning out towards the open meadows and the steam” or “Under the thick branches he stood still again, to listen.”

Repetition is an expressive means of language used when the speaker is under the stress or strong emotion. It shows the state of mind of the speaker as in: “Would she come – would she? And among these quivering, haunted, moon-witched trees he was seized with doubts of everything! All, was unearthly here, fit for no earthly lovers; fit only for god and goddess, faun and nymph – not be almost a relief if she did not come?”

There is an example of enumeration in the given text. It is god and goddess, faun and nymph.

It is appropriate to give an example of climax in the text: All, was unearthly here, fit for no earthly lovers; fit only for god and goddess, faun and nymph – not be almost a relief if she did not come? I would call it an emotional climax.

There is no represented speech in the text. There is though a rhetorical question: Would she come – would she?

An example of bathos is “And among these quivering, haunted, moon-witched trees he was seized with doubts of everything!”

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