英语文体学Chapter 7 Cohesion in Literary Discourse.pptVIP

English Stylistics Chapter 7 Cohesion in Literary Discourse Cohesion refers to the set of linguistic devices that bind a text together, that give it unity or texture. Cohesive devices can be phonological, syntactic, or lexical. Phonological Devices Cohesion can be achieved through sound patterns such as alliteration, assonance and rhyme. Phonological Devices Alliteration Alliteration is one of the chief characteristics and means of cohesion for poetry. Phonological Devices Example Th infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels. . . (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I) Phonological Devices Assonance Assonance consists of the repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllable of a sequence of words. Example … the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shinning in the sun. (Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi) Phonological Devices Consonance Consonance is a kind of end-alliteration or consonantal assonance whereby final consonants in stressed syllables are repeated, but with different preceding vowels. Phonological Devices Example I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark; for so you frowned Yesterday, through me as you jabbed and killed. I parried, but my hands were loath and cold. (Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting) Phonological Devices Rhyme Rhyme is the identity of sounds between words or verse lines extending from the end to the last fully accented vowel and not further. Rhyme is also a very important means of cohesion for poetry. Phonological Devices Example I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trembles, I bubble into eddying bays,