Stylistic Features of Oscar Wilde’s Wrightings

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Some of them make the speech of the characters vivid, interesting, humorous, ironical, emotional, understandable ; they reflect their thoughts and feelings.

The following tables give us an idea of the frequency of the usage of all expressive means and stylistic devices tackled in this diploma paper.

Table № 1

EMs and SDs

The volume of the book (pp)

%

Lexical

360

70%  

Syntactical

360

30%

This table shows that Wilde resorts to the use of lexical expressive means and stylistic devices more than to the use of syntactical ones. According to this table we can make a conclusion that lexical stylistic devices prevail in Wilde’s plays.

The following table shows the frequency of the usage of the most used lexical EMs and SDs in O.Wilde’s plays.

Table № 2

№

EMs and SDs

The volume of the book(pp)

%

1

Epigram and paradox

360

30 %

2