NOTES ON STYLE

1. Rhetorical questions are special syntactical SD regarded as ut­terances in the form of question which pronounce judgements.


They can also express various kinds of modal shades of meaning: doubt, challenge, scorn, irony.

What do you remember most about your childhood?

What did your friends talk about, at least part of the time, before class?

An item from a newspaper? An ad that you noticed in a magazine or television commercial?

2. Inversion is an expressive means, which consists in inverted word
order.

Stylistic inversion is aimed at attaching logical stress to the surface meaning of the utterance.

With all this you also absorb ideas about behaviour...

Actually, a comedian does sit sometimes ..

Most of the time, the response comes in as programmed.

3. Asyndeton is the deliberate avoidance of conjunctions.

They would embark the following day. No trains, no bustle, no last-minute worries.

Then the material is written, staged, photographed with or without audio, printed....